As hundreds of thousands of protesters crowded Washington D.C. streets on Saturday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer stepped into the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room and unfurled a tirade peppered with blatant falsehoods. He then left the podium without taking a single question.

Spicer was sent out to dispute the national media’s reporting on the relatively lackluster attendance of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, a sore topic for the new president. Trump himself addressed the topic in remarks at C.I.A. headquarters earlier on Saturday. Speaking in front of the Memorial Wall of Agency Heroes, Trump said he was shocked by media footage of “an empty field,” saying that, to him, “it looked like a million to a million-and-a-half people.”

“As you know, I have a running war with the media,” Trump said to laughs. “They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth. Right?”

Spicer’s comments were even more acidic. “There’s been a lot of talk in the media about the responsibility to hold Donald Trump accountable,” he said. “And I’m here to tell you that it goes two ways. We’re going to hold the press accountable as well.”

All White House spokespeople spin—it’s part of the job. But it’s one thing to deflect attention from unflattering facts and trying to reframe uncomfortable realities in a more favorable narrative. What Spicer did was markedly different: he listed a number of highly specific and easily verifiable claims.

Here are those claims.

“Photographs of the inaugural proceedings were intentionally framed in a way, in one particular tweet, to minimize the enormous support that had gathered on the National Mall.

Spicer did not identify the tweet in question. Here’s an example of a tweet, which compares images of Barack Obama and Trump’s inauguration crowds, which went viral. It’s unclear how this is “intentionally framed.”

“This was the first time in our nation’s history that floor coverings had been used to protect the grass on the mall. That had the effect of highlighting any areas in which people were not standing.”

Here are two photos from Obama’s second inaugural address, with floor covering clearly visible.

“This is also the first time that fencing and magnetometers went as far back on the Mall, preventing hundreds of thousands of people from being able to access the Mall as quickly as they had in inaugurations past.”

After Spicer’s comments, the United States Secret Service told reporters that no magnetometers were used on the National Mall during the proceedings.

“Inaccurate numbers regarding crowd size were also tweeted. No one had numbers. Because the National Parks Service, which controls the National Mall, does not put any out. By the way, this applies to any attempts to try to count protesters today in the same fashion.”

This was Spicer’s only mention of the hundreds of thousands of protesters in Washington D.C. According to USA Today, early estimates suggest as many as 2.5 million people joined Women’s March events throughout the world. The march was a repudiation of Trump’s attacks on women and minorities.

As for crowd size, media outlets and event experts routinely estimate attendance numbers as events. Sometimes these align with police or official estimates. Sometimes they do not.

“We know that 420,000 people used the D.C. public transit yesterday, which actually compares to 317,000 who used it for President Obama’s last inaugural.”

CNN and The Washington Post confirmed Metro ridership with the agency. The full day of Trump’s inauguration prompted 570,557 trips in the system. Obama’s first inauguration drew 1.1 million trips, and Obama’s second inauguration drew 782,000 trips.

“This was the largest audience to witness an inauguration, period. Both in person and around the globe.”

The aforementioned crowd size estimates, aerial photographs, and Metro ridership reveal Spicer’s claim of “in person” to be false. As for “around the globe” numbers, Spicer didn’t offer specifics.

TV ratings agency Neislen said 30.6 million U.S. viewers turned in for Trump’s inaugural—a figure higher than audiences for President George W. Bush and President George H.W. Bush, but lower than Obama’s 38 million viewers in 2009, and than President Ronald Reagan’s 42 million viewers in 1981. Perhaps Spicer has evidence more foreigners tuned in for Trump, but he hasn’t revealed it.

“Even The New York Times printed a photograph showing a misrepresentation of the crowd in the original tweet, in their paper, which showed the full extent of the support, depth, and crowd and intensity that existed.”

It’s again unclear to what Spicer is referring to. The Times told The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple that they do not know.

A reporter noted that, as Trump spoke at the C.I.A., he faced an inscription from the Bible: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” The writing was literally on the wall.