Donald Trump had just had his inauguration as the new President of the United States of America. A couple of days after the said event, however, Trump’s top officials stood in defiance against reports that not very many people were in attendance.

During Trump’s visit to the CIA headquarters in Virginia, he asserted that there were over a million of his constituents who gathered in support of his inauguration. “It looked like a million - a million and a half people,” he said, according to npr.org. He lashed at the media for showing “a field where there were practically nobody standing there.”

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that the crowd gathered for the new POTUS was “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration.” According to him, the viral side-by-side photos of Obama’s and Trump’s inauguration was just the media’s effort to “minimize enormous support that had gathered on the National Mall.”

There might not be an official tally, but independent estimates reveal that there were only approximately 250,000 people. Metro subway reports, Nielsen ratings, and aerial photos of the location also confirm the same findings. Trump’s officials have yet to provide the source for verification of where the 1 million estimate came from.

Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s counselor, recently made headlines for stating that Spicer’s false statements were not necessarily lies, but were “alternative facts.” “You are saying it is a falsehood,” she said. “Sean Spicer, our Press Secretary, gave alternative facts to that.” To this, Chuck Todd said, “Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods.”

Shortly after Kellyanne Conway’s interview, the social media team for Merriam-Webster Dictionary took to the Internet to respond. They just could not help but correct Conway’s understanding of the word “fact.” “A fact is a piece of information presented as having objective reality,” they wrote on Twitter.