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Londoners marched on Jan. 21 for the Women's March and anti-Trump messages were everywhere.

While the list of President Donald Trump's inadequacies would take more than the 500 word allotment I have for this article, I'm going to focus on just one today. His ego.

It shouldn't be a surprise that I say Trump has a big ego, and if it does I have a lot of questions for you, mainly, where have you been the last year and a half? But I digress.

We've all met someone like Trump. This guy drives a flashy car blaring music with heavy bass at all hours of the day, only texts girls after 11 p.m., sends dick pics to girls on Snapchat and calls them a slut when you tell him to go eff himself and talks a big game about all the girls he's taken home but for some reason always seems to strike out when you see him at the club.

There are few things as fragile as the ego and masculinity of a man who knows he has nothing to back it up.

And Trump knows it. After his inauguration on Jan. 20, Trump's White House press secretary Sean Spicer took the podium and gave a speech claiming that Trump's rally brought the largest crowd ever. Trump himself made the same claims, adding that from his vantage point it looked like there were over one million people in attendance.

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Most people, myself included, were extremely confused upon hearing this because of one important fact that Trump and his people may not have taken into consideration.

There was photographic evidence showcasing the difference in crowd sizes between Obama's inauguration and Trump's, and his was clearly lacking in comparison.

But really, let's be honest here. “Crowd size” is just a euphemism for something else.

So why bother lying about it?

In this situation it becomes glaringly obvious that Trump would rather lie and protect his ego as opposed to being honest and being up front with his audience. And that's what makes his lies so frightening to me.

When the now infamous Kellyanne Conway said that Trump's lies were actually just “alternative facts” she made one realization absolutely clear. The Trump administration will say whatever it wants and the media better take it to be a fact… or else.

And on that note, the first 100 days of Trump administration are off to a great start. Not.

It's only been a few days, but Trump has already filed to remove the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), has signed a bill to defund any health care organization that even mentions the word abortion (which will have a deeply negative impact on women's health), has promised to bring the coal industry back as opposed to investing in renewable energy sources, has said his government will likely push the Dakota Access Pipeline through, is muzzling scientists and government workers from speaking to the press without permission and to top it all off, he has signed an executive order to build a wall along the U.S. Mexican border.

So those lies may seem minor in comparison to the potentially disastrous consequences of these policies, but seeing Trump's lies so early on into his presidency has already put the media and the voters on high alert.

So what the backlash to his lies says to Trump is this: we get it, you're self-conscious about the size of your… crowd. But we see the truth, and we won't let you get away with these lies. We're watching you.
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