When he spoke shortly after it became clear that he had won the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump tried to claim that voters had given him an overwhelming mandate by electing him with a massive victory.
But in the nearly three weeks since he was declared the victor, the disgraced president-elect is growing angrier by the second, according to The New Republic, because it turns out his “landslide” was little more than a squeaker.
Trump and his supporters have been pushing the landslide narrative ever since he defeated Harris. “We had a great election in the U.S.… Amazing what happened, we had tremendous success. The most successful in over 100 years they say,” he told Fox News last week. Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung claimed that “President Trump won in dominating and historic fashion after the Democrats and the fake news media peddled outright lies and disinformation throughout the campaign.” And Republicans throughout Congress have claimed the same.
Not so fast!
Since Election Day, Trump’s margin of victory has shrunk precipitously.
According to numbers released Friday, Trump only managed to defeat Vice President Kamala Harris by 1.6 percentage points. He also didn’t manage to get more than 50% of the popular vote. In comparison, Hillary Clinton beat Trump by more votes in 2016 than Trump did Harris eight years later.
In other words, Donnie is a two-time loser and only won because the Electoral College math worked in his favor.
All of this has put Trump and his surrogates on the defensive, with Trump transition team spokeswoman Karoline Leavit lashing out at Politico and the New York Times for daring to report the truth about her twice-impeached boss. Here’s what she posted on Twitter:
“New Fake News Narrative Alert! Here are the ridiculous headlines from @politico and @nytimes this morning. The fake news is trying to minimize President Trump’s massive and historic victory to try to delegitimize his mandate before he even takes the Oath of Office again.”
That post reeks of defensiveness and massive insecurity.
Of course, what Trump fears most is being called an illegitimate president, even though that’s the very same thing he said about former President Barack Obama for eight years. He’s insecure and knows he’ll go down in history as one of the most incompetent fools to inhabit the White House.
But the numbers speak for themselves, and they tell us that the Donald is not exactly a hit with over 74 million American voters. That’s got to sting to an egotistical crybaby like him.
