Trump says he won one of the biggest landslides in history.

[kentuck]

That is not true but no one is calling him on it.

I can recall elections in my lifetime where some candidates only won one state.

Also, I can never remember any candidate losing the popular vote by such a large margin and still winning the Presidency?

Donald Trump is lying but what's new?

[GoCubsGo]

1. Somebody on the PBS Newshour corrected him last night.

They said his margin was actually 47th out of the 50 or so presidential elections this country has held. Yes, he's lying. Bigly. Of course, how many people watch PBS Newshour, let alone on the weekend? It's not like most people will hear that.

As for losing the popular vote, I believe that is actually where the record lies, not in his electoral vote margin.

[UTUSN]

2. Uh, half of the eligible voters didn't vote. Leaves 1/4 vs 1/4+ n/t

[TrekLuver]

3. It is annoying how it's not pointed out each and every time that that is not true.

Journalist are all introspective saying we have to do better.....uh huh

Let's look at the whole statement.....the WHOLE thing is a lie.

"These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE ," the transition said in a terse, unsigned statement.

"The election ended a long time ago LIE LIE LIE LIE in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE . It's now time to move on OH LIKE YOU WOULD OF TRASHPOT LIE LIE LIE LIE and 'Make America Great Again.'" LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE


THE WHOLE FRIKKIN THING.

[deminks]

4. naw, he's confusing that with the mudslide he had for breakfast this morning

[onenote]

5. It's these "little lies" that go completely unanswered

and thus become part of some sort of "conventional wisdom" that has no basis in fact.

Obviously, from a popular vote standpoint, he has no claim to a "landslide" -- he lost, big time.

Moreover, from an EC vote standpoint, there are 45 elections in which the winner had a larger percentage of the of the EC. Only 12 were closer than 2016. And if you only consider the elections where there were 538 EC votes at stake, in nine of fourteen, the winner got more EC votes than Trump.

Yet no one in the media pushes back on this lie.

[SamKnause]

6. Trump is a liar.

The mainstream media is not interested in correcting his lies.

The entire mainstream media is loaded with political pundits,

over paid TV news people, lobbyists, and contractors.

They are not interested in the truth.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Both Chris Hayes and Rachel Maddow pointed out it is not true -- not even close. nt

[Orsino]

8. He did.

That empty space inside his head is vast, and he can barely see Hillary's total there.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Drumpf reminds one of Caligula

Insanely self deluded.

[roamer65]

10. He's more illegitimate than Rutherfraud Hayes.

He's a popular vote loser by 3M legitimate votes!

[gulliver]

11. They even say it in the same breath they use to discount Russian hacking.

“These are the same people that said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,” adding, “The election ended a long time ago in one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history. It’s now time to move on and ‘Make America Great Again.’ ”

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2016/12/how_will_trump_react_to_reports_that_russia_was_trying_to_get_him_elected.html

So they question the CIA and then say Trump won "one of the biggest Electoral College victories in history." It's really like watching something criminal or insane or both.

[malaise]

12. Groper Don the Con is a pathological LIAR

That is all

[moondust]

13. He doesn't know what a landslide is.

Because he's not very smart.

[standingtall]

14. The lying never stops with Trump

He loses the popular vote by almost 3 million and gets 306 electoral votes,but he won in a landslide. Yeah right! Lets see how many Presidents got more electoral votes over the last 100 years.

Obama 2012 332
Obama 2008 365

Bill Clinton 1992 370
Bill Clinton 1996 379

George H.W. Bush 1988 426

Ronald Reagan 1984 525
Ronald Reagan 1980 489

Richard Nixon 1972 520

Lyndon Johnson 1964 486

Dwight Eisenhower 1952 442
Dwight Eisenhower 1956 457

Franklin Roosevelt 1932 472
Franklin Roosevelt 1936 523
Franklin Roosevelt 1940 449
Franklin Roosevelt 1944 432

Herbert Hoover 1928 444

Calvin Coolidge 1924 382

Warren G. Harding 1920 404

[spanone]

15. he lies with ease and a smile. a dangerous 'virtue'