The mainstream media that spent Friday emphasizing every negative they could find related to President Donald Trump’s inauguration wasted no time in fawning over Saturday’s progressive Women’s March on Washington.

As thousands of women descended upon Washington, D.C., and other cities across the world to protest against Trump’s rhetoric and policies the day after his inauguration, the media personalities did precious little to disguise their enthusiasm — or at the very least, their positivity.

“This isn’t a march for women, it’s another liberal catch-all protest, trying to relitigate an election the left and the media lost on Nov. 8.”

“It’s obvious where journalist priorities and opinions lie. They treat Trump taking office in a legitimate election as if a foreign country had seized control,” Dan Gainor, the vice president for business and culture at the Media Research Center, told LifeZette in an email.

“The Washington Post actually said ‘Trump takes power.’ Not ‘Trump takes office.’ That’s how they view the new administration because they overwhelmingly opposed him during the campaign,” Gainor added.

Sure enough, some in the media were all too keen to paint Trump’s presidency as questionable, to say the least. Fueled by outrage over Russian hacking allegations, some pundits outrightly sneered at Trump on his big day.

“Certainly the Kremlin isn’t sad to see Mr. Obama go,” Chief Global Correspondent for NBC News Bill Neely said Saturday on NBC’s “Today” show. “Beyond Russia though, a world of anxiety — even fear — about what he means, but in Moscow a party … Russian celebrations for Donald Trump as U.S. president welcomed here as never before.”

According to Neely, many people in the U.S. see the 45th president “as a gift to Russia.”

Neely also made sure to note in a tweet Friday that estimates from the Financial Times showed Trump’s inaugural attendance capped at 250,000, whereas Obama’s 2009 and 2013 inaugurations drew 1.8 million and one million, respectively.

David Mack, an editor and writer for BuzzFeed, praised the “incredible turnout” for the Women’s March with a picture on Twitter while noting the “fairly staggering difference in crowd numbers” between Trump’s inauguration and the march in another.

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As ABC News prepared to cover Trump’s inauguration, the network emphasized the signs of a “divided nation” brewing throughout the country and coming to D.C. But when ABC covered Obama’s 2009 inauguration, it gushed over the “unified” country, MRC-TV noted.

“Friday, ABC proved again that when a Democrat wins, the country is ‘unified’ according to the media, but when a Republican wins, the country is ‘divided,'” MRC-TV noted. “The morning of Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration, Good Morning America touted the ‘millions fueled by hope and the shared dreams of a renewed America.’ Today however, GMA talked more about a ‘divided nation.'”

Correspondent Cecilia Vega harped on the more than 60 Democratic lawmakers who refused to attend the inauguration Friday on ABC.

“In modern history we’ve never seen any numbers like this,” Vega said. “Some of them say that they feel that Donald Trump’s soon-to-be presidency is an illegitimate one so they are protesting for that one. Others say they are not happy with the tone that he has set in this country and the discourse and the language that he’s used about minority communities and about women and so for that they say they will be staying home.”

As for the Women’s March, that, of course, offered “a message of unity” and not a “hateful or anti-Trump” message, according to elites in the press.

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“They’re here to send a message of unity, to send a message of women’s rights of course,” reporter Cal Perry said on MSNBC. “This is the Women’s March, but to send a message of unity and to send a message that Democratic Party — certainly, the organizers would tell you this, the Democratic Party is not in as bad a shape as people say.”

MSNBC editor Beth Fouhy also noted that the protest’s organizers don’t want it to be “a negative rally” that is “hateful or anti-Trump,” MRC-TV noted.

And yet these are the same inclusive organizers that banned a pro-life women’s groups from partnering in the apparently “pro-choice” event. This purge didn’t receive the same coverage as negative elements of Trump’s inauguration received.

“The Women’s March gets the opposite treatment. Journalists love left-wing protests from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter. Many of them are attending the march themselves and are unified in their opposition to Trump,” Gainor said. “This isn’t a march for women, it’s another liberal catch-all protest, trying to relitigate an election the left and the media lost on Nov. 8.”