Pretending he has an electoral mandate, Trump keeps making stuff up |
Donald Trump keeps lying about the margin of his election victory because the truth is too inconvenient to leave intact.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/pretending-electoral-mandate-trump-keeps-making-stuff-rcna184832
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The truth only hurts so it’s easy to make things up and the people expect it!
What does President Musk think about the margin?
To the surprise of absolutely no person alive ever.
He has a philosophy, say it over and over until people believe it, or give up on telling him the truth.
If he really did have a mandidate (which he does not) he would tell some even more pernicious lie like it’s the largest mandidate ever proving that ALL American people want Trump as the permanent president, because Trump is unable to tell the truth about anything (except when it slips out by mistake).
“In fact, he prevailed with one of the smallest margins of victory in the popular vote since the 19th century…”
“(The Democratic nominee, interestingly enough, came up short while winning a higher percentage of the popular vote than Trump received in 2016 or 2020.)”
In his defense, he’s not good with numbers.
Why is it even relevant to anything?!
It’s not going to matter either way
He’s not pretending. He’s purposely lying. And the media is helping him by not calling it a fucking outright lie.
MAGA has perfected the political art of telling a falsehood enough times that it eventually becomes ingrained as truth in the American psyche. They are doing this with everything now. And the media (and even many on the left) has essentially become exhausted responding and countering it.
Well at least he won’t let it become his entire personality for the next four years… right?
Truth lol
Okay I’ve been thinking about this, how does Fox get their viewer feedback? Is it views or what mechanism do they use. Because we all need to engage EVERY-TIME Fox speaks about Musk to keep them talking about him, same with Newsmax. It will propel this ever further to the “Battle of the Senior Billionaires” as Trump would say “the ratings would be amazing…”
Gotta give it to the man, he’s not wrong
The national mandate and red wave is pure misinformation. Yes he won the popular vote and that is impressive. However, it was one of the closest elections ever. They lost seats in the House. They won less senate seats than anticipated even with a super attractive map
He is like a little kid that can’t help himself and lies but to cover things up or accuses others of what he has done to deflect. This was not a fair election and he knows it. He went outright and said that he didn’t need more votes and had a special surprise to win. The 2024 election smells like his dirty dippers.
Elect a serial liar, get a serial liar.
Trump constantly finds something that he believes is true and will repeat it adamantly and in the political area started with Obama birtherism. On the campaign this year it was Hannibal Lecter. Now he believes he got and mandate just like in 2020 he believes that the red spike was him winning and the mail in count “stole” his win.
This is what he goes and as an old man just going to repeat and embellish each time he tells the story.
Business as usual, ensuring that even the slight goodwill from winning the popular vote will be utterly squandered…
Nixon’s team was convinced if he’d had media outlets he would’ve survived. Along came Rupert, and voila. There are many many people who still don’t know Trump was convincted, indicted or impeached. They are not stupid, they are being strangled intentionally in the new front fo war of information and algos
There’s no such thing as a mandate. If you control a majority of the seats you can do whatever you want.
The “mandate” is just for PR, it makes no difference. The near even split in Congress might protect us from the trump regime’s worst instincts. But trump is all about appearances, about PR, so he is pushing this, out of ego.
Truth…like fidelity, is a foreign concept to this asshole.
He didn’t even get 50% of the vote. Lol
He won by less than he lost to Biden.
When he lost to Biden by more than 5 million votes, his supporters stormed the capitol.
When he won by less than 2 million votes, his supporters claimed a mandate.
Theyre all just crybabies. Sore losers, sore winners, generally demented idiots being fooled into supporting a man who wants to do nothing more than dismantle America for parts, avoid jail, and make a quick buck.