Donald Trump decisively won the presidency by securing enough electoral college votes, but on Tuesday morning he couldn’t help but address the fact that Hillary Clinton is winning the popular vote.
In tweets published Tuesday morning, Trump claimed he could have won the popular vote if he had campaigned differently, and he praised the Electoral College system.
If the election were based on total popular vote I would have campaigned in N.Y. Florida and California and won even bigger and more easily
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2016
The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play. Campaigning is much different!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2016
Trump is singing a different tune about the Electoral College than he did in 2012, when he tweeted that the system is a “disaster.”
The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 7, 2012
It still really, really bugs him that he is not as popular as a “girl.”
Oh, fuck you.
Will ‘journalists’ ‘report’ immediately or wait until Trump has tweeted what actually could have happened?
He did campaign in Florida, so there’s that. New Yorkers already know him. California might have shifted, but in both directions. He showed up there in the primary. The problem is that voters in 40 of the 50 states essentially didn’t matter.
Trump must refute adversaries and assert supremacy and dominance on a daily basis. He can’t let any sleight go unanswered, or any assertion he’s less than a God among men. This does not bode well for the next four years, Being President, among other things, involves being the object of a continuous stream of sleights. It also means every other nation and leader on the planet pushing back against your primacy. There isn’t a person less well suited to the demands of the office than Trump.