On Monday, during his first press briefing since the protests over and court rulings against President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting immigration, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer stuck to repeating the talking point that the number of travelers delayed was minimal. “It’s relatively minor as a percentage of the overall total,” he said. “So when you look at how this worked on a Saturday, 109 people out of 325,000 were slowed down going in. I truly believe it’s being blown out of proportion, the extent to which this actually was…for what it did…and I think government functioned very well.”

Spicer stressed that all of the 109 got into the United States after the screening, so “the system actually worked really well.” Adding that “that’s the takeaway from this,” he reiterated that “the system worked well and the country is safer for it.” Spicer also noted that this past weekend’s issues should be short term, because in the future, there won’t be complications from people being en route to the United States as the executive order was issued. He did not address any complaints of the greater context of the order beyond this past weekend’s travel delays.

Meanwhile, on Twitter, it was pointed out that Spicer has not had much patience for being inconvenienced by air travel in the past:

muslim ban is being “blown out of proportion,” says same guy who regularly tweets at airlines to whine about minor inconveniences pic.twitter.com/GgHNMRXWBO

— Andrew Cushing (@aecushing) January 30, 2017

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