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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Madman got in on a technicality (and international collusion) and it's absolutely eating him up.
He cannot stand the fact that more Americans voted against him than for him and his obsession with explaining away that fact is quite telling.
Donald J. Trump ?@realDonaldTrump · 27m27 minutes ago
I have not heard any of the pundits or commentators discussing the fact that I spent FAR LESS MONEY on the win than Hillary on the loss!
Donald J. Trump ?@realDonaldTrump · 32m32 minutes ago
I would have done even better in the election, if that is possible, if the winner was based on popular vote - but would campaign differently
Donald J. Trump ?@realDonaldTrump · 41m41 minutes ago
Campaigning to win the Electoral College is much more difficult & sophisticated than the popular vote. Hillary focused on the wrong states!
Note to Donald: It was possible to do better in your election. You're officially the biggest losingest winner in US Presidential history. Stuff the "historical landslide" bullshit back up your orange ass where it belongs.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I don't remember who but spit!!!!!
Kingofalldems
(38,456 posts)the post you responded to? Are you trying to slip that in there, yeoman6987?
tavernier
(12,388 posts)gave him millions in free publicity and coverage and attention, day after day after day. Their CEO's even pointed that out with much glee.
HurricaneWarning
(220 posts)but who's counting?
Maraya1969
(22,480 posts)avebury
(10,952 posts)of course he didn't have to spend as much money. In fact he was able to channel more campaign dollars into the family coffers.
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)Drumpf is making life easy for the writers at SNL.
kentuck
(111,094 posts)to claim the presidency.
Baitball Blogger
(46,705 posts)meow2u3
(24,764 posts)In face, he never had his mind to begin with!
ailsagirl
(22,896 posts)exboyfil
(17,863 posts)Anyone who questions the patriotism of someone who questions the legitimacy of Trump, you have Trump's own words to counter them. Remember his birtherism and calling for a revolt if the popular vote winner does not also win the election.
Vogon_Glory
(9,117 posts)Let him suffer.
Donald Frederickovitch won in large part due to hacking by foreign powers, meddling by the FBI, corrupted voter-registration and vote-counting systems, not to mention th electoral college and our sad-sack, irresponsible, lame-stream corporate news media.
A better man would accept that those things happened and then try to show he was worthy of the office he got, regardless of how he got it.
But that's not who and what he is, is it?
oasis
(49,383 posts)chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)Honestly. This was someone getting elected by losing by almost 2.9 million votes. Every vote doesn't count and just because he got plastered in a few states doesn't mean their votes didn't count.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,374 posts)It'll be like working with a drunk.
gordianot
(15,238 posts)A small Duchy in Europe spared the disaster of World War ll declare war in the United States in the hope of losing in order to get money from the Marshall plan. Instead they end up winning the war due to nuclear grapes. Trump is and will be forever the poster child of unintended disastrous consequences.
JawJaw
(722 posts)Careful what you wish for, Twitler!
3catwoman3
(23,981 posts)Because of all the free airtime the drooling, "Oh, look, shiny object! Trump is breathing!" press gave him, every goddamned minute of every goddamned day.
The same press he now lambasts for having covered him sooooooooo unfairly.
They should have just ignored him completely.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)I understand he's an expert at that.
Wounded Bear
(58,653 posts)spooky3
(34,452 posts)DetlefK
(16,423 posts)That means that 77% of all US-Presidents won by larger margins than he did.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)....."Historic landslide win!"
Sad thing, it's not a joke. He actually has deluded himself into thinking he had an unpresidented--err, I mean unprecedented--victory of epic proportions, and he'll zone out anyone who dares tell him otherwise.
Mike Niendorff
(3,461 posts)Again : ** -2,800,000 votes **
Shout it from the rooftops.
MDN
uponit7771
(90,336 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)far more than the Clinton campaign spent.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,855 posts)My take is that he's completely convinced he won by a landslide, and that millions really did vote illegally. It is NOT eating him up that he won on a "technicality".
He believes he has a mandate to govern however he wishes. All those tweets are just his inner bully coming out.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)One is reality, which isn't very kind to him, but is extremely truthful to him.
The other, a coping mechanism, is his idealized reality where he is the greatest, he is the best, and anyone who dares disagree better get the hell out of his way.
SNL captured it perfectly last week in its skit "Through Donald's Eyes":
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/through-donalds-eyes/3438964?snl=1
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,855 posts)Not at all. He lives in a complete fantasy world of his own. Because he simply makes stuff up, he believes everyone else does also, if he actually thinks anything through to that point, which I sincerely doubt. He has zero introspection, and no conscience whatsoever. He's probably a psychopath or sociopath (can a person be both?) but I hesitate to slap an actual diagnosis on.
2naSalit
(86,603 posts)3catwoman3
(23,981 posts)...itching powder - pick, pick, pick.
Or better yet, a raging case of scabies. We all know Trumplethinskin's emotional dermal covering is so fragile that he is completely incapable of letting even the smallest slight go unaddressed.
Maybe someone should sing "Let It Go" to him on Januarty 20th.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)dae
(3,396 posts)Lithos
(26,403 posts)Cheeto-breath will go ahead and act like he has a mandate no matter what we say or do. George W. did it in 2000, why should Cheeto-breath act differently?
L-
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Lithos
(26,403 posts)Almost like the chains on Jacob Marley
Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)coco22
(1,258 posts)crying his ass off.
Puzzler
(2,505 posts)Trump just can't f***ing shut up, can he?
To be honest, I'm quite glad that his Twitter frequency, and pettiness are continuing... 24/7.
Yes, he's obviously going to be making ludicrous statements, no doubt, many about foreign policy. However, since Trump is so utterly incompetent, it's probably far better that foreign countries/powers at least develop a kind of "Trump Deafness". In other words, they'll have to learn fast to largely ignore Trump's rants. And if they don't: we're screwed, but we're screwed already.
Yes, the situation is utterly ridiculous, nevertheless, it's real. But the consequences of Trump remaining much more muted, could be far more dangerous in the long run.
So, yeah Donald, keep Tweeting, anything and everything that comes into your head. And continue to be distracted by everything 24/7... preferably for about the next four years.
-P
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)maveric
(16,445 posts)We'll see your mandate then. Right?
DemoTex
(25,397 posts)You vapid, atavistic, vainglorious, impotent short-timer.
NBachers
(17,108 posts)briv1016
(1,570 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)AND YOU SPENT FAR LESS BECAUSE THE MEDIA YOU DESPISE WAS ALL TOO WILLING TO COVER YOUR FASCIST ASS FOR FREE
11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Raine
(30,540 posts)go suck your thumb you baby!
keepthemhonestO
(252 posts)based on that and in retrospect the fact that he was spending hardly any money, makes me think. He knew he could win without spending money? Why? He knew someone was going to cheat for him. I am a very frugal person also, and if I know I can get something without spending money on it. I won't spend a dime.
joanbarnes
(1,722 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)MFM008
(19,808 posts)its so obvious its burning his ass.
I could have won it if i wanted to.
ROF.
LMFAO.
AwakeAtLast
(14,124 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)much Hillary of Bernie got. I blame the media and ALL THAT FREE FACE TIME for getting the Con elected far more that Russia or Comey!
I really can't decide which I think caused trump to "win," all the media time he got or all the voter suppression that went on. In any case, the whole Rethuglican party should be labeled with Lying, Cheating and Stealing. Instead of R next to their name, they should have LCS. And everyone ought not ever put the word, President near his name.