I vaguely recall Trump claiming in 2016 that the election was going to be rigged against him. Until he won, which was therefore automatically a massive historic landslide victory. Despite most US presidential elections producing winners with more electoral votes. Although when Biden got that number, Trump claimed that the election was rigged. Even though Trump said he is the most successful person ever to run for the Presidency by far and nobody’s been more successful than him and he is the most successful person ever to run for the Presidency by far and nobody has been more successful than him and he is the most successful person ever to run. Oh, I’ve got some malignant narcissists in the family, who he seems like a milder version of. My door is always locked and bolted to them.
But would Trump put himself up for the possibility of repeating the experience of losing again though? Do you think he is handling losing this one well?
It doesn’t seem genuine to me. More of an ego-saving conspiracy fiction he has created, deflecting from his loss. When Trump had 306 electoral college votes in 2016, he kept repeatedly slipping it into conversations, calling it a historic landslide victory. He said that he slaughtered them. And he has said that Biden won but then said it was a rigged election and that he would never concede. And he revenge fired his election cyber security chief, Chris Krebs, after Krebs (appointed by Trump) said the election was the most secure in American history. Which along with the result itself, would inflict a narcissistic injury, exposing Trump fibs.
Which is interesting. Trump previously said that 306 electoral college votes was rather decisive:
Well, it isn’t uncommon for narcissists to over time come to believe in their own fiction.
This is what I've started to think about him. A normal liar will say things in the hope of fooling the listener. Trump says things so outrageous that surely he could not expect to be believed unless he believes it himself. It's quite sad really.
Well, I was just viewing a comment from a few days ago, from clinical psychologist Mary Trump (his niece), where she said that Donald Trump “is the only person I’ve ever met who can gaslight himself.” She also said, “I don’t think he’s ever accepted the truth of the loss. I don’t think he’s psychologically or emotionally capable of that.”
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After just six months, Kamala Harris is said to be the least popular vice president since the 1970s. In contrast, Trump doesn't appear to have lost the support of his base.
Not likely, but the idea of Harris vs. Pence intrigues me. Not only are they the two most recent VP's, they're also immensely unpopular. Yet another lose lose decision.Funny but not likely.
That's because the Dems insist on putting up their most unlikeable right wing figures. Trump at least pretended to be an economic populist like Bernie when he ran in 2016.
Trump was smart to lean in to economic issues in 2016. He also came out against the wars, but he ultimately did the bidding of the neocons as president.
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