Chronicle Of A Loss Foretold

Trump rejected the election:

"It was a rigged election, 100%."
"This election was a fraud."
"Joe Biden did not get 80 million votes."
"I got 74 million, but there were many ballots thrown away. So I got much more than that."
"At the highest level, it was a rigged election." /2

— Will Saletan (@saletan) November 27, 2020

The rant was full of demonstrable lies. Trump said GA's recount "found thousands of wrong votes ... always against me." (Wrong. Biden gained margin in 44 counties.)

He said "We’re doing very well in front of the states" in contesting the election. (He lost nearly every case.) /4

— Will Saletan (@saletan) November 27, 2020

More desperate egotism: "The vaccines were me," Trump raged. "I pushed people harder than they’ve ever been pushed."

He bragged that he got "millions more [votes] than Ronald Reagan got" in 1984. Reagan won 59% of the vote and a bigger share of the population than Trump did. /6

— Will Saletan (@saletan) November 27, 2020

This is sad and dangerous. Trump said friends told him there was no way he'd lose AZ. He said there's no way he could have lost PA, because Biden criticized fracking. Reality didn't turn out as Trump expected. So he's rejecting reality.

For 8 more weeks, he's our president. /END

— Will Saletan (@saletan) November 27, 2020

This is a real photo he chose to take. pic.twitter.com/uDdA56Zr2c

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) November 27, 2020

I’m guessing that’s a Xmas tree Melanie hasn’t painted red yet.