Simply put, Trump is embarrassed

Losing anything but especially so concretely just isn’t possible. It counters everything about the persona that he’s built and even convinced himself of.

He’s mastered (he thought) the ability to turn failure into success. Steaks, water, vodka, repo’ed property didn’t happened like it looked. Wait a while and then tell everyone how it really was a great triumph. That can’t be done here. Sure he’s convinced a lot of the already convinced and himself that it didn’t happen or at least he was ripped off.

Like sport there was a final score. Period. You can argue calls and unlucky breaks or whatever. When the clock shows 0 or the whistle blows or the last out is made, you turn around and look at the scoreboard. There’s a 1 going in one of your columns - Win Loss or Draw. That’s it.

He isn’t built for this. It’s unimaginable. The worst thing for him is that he knows it isn’t going to change.