President-elect Donald Trump says his electoral college total was a "landslide" victory. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said Trump won a "mandate" from the American people.
Those guys don't seem to know what those words mean.
Trump now says (via Twitter) that if you deduct the millions of illegal votes Hillary Clinton got, he also won the popular vote.
Wow.
Give the man enough time, I suspect he'll claim Hillary got no legitimate votes at all—that Trump, in fact, won the presidency by unanimous acclamation.
That would fit the high opinion he has of himself.
Contrary to his "Drain the Swamp" campaign promise, he's busy filling his cabinet with Washington and Wall Street insiders. At least the Republican-controlled Congress knows Trump is taking this job seriously.
He may not be outfitting himself for changing Washington, but maybe those guys will let him get a little input to the day-to-day governance of the nation.
They'll no doubt let him keep his Twitter account, so he can vent the excess steam of his mental processes. (Trump's brain seems to produce a lot of waste heat.)
What is not being reported, at least not on the network news programs, is how well the new and improved version of Trump is going over with his hardcore supporters, the "jail the bitch" crowd.
Maybe when Trump makes the rounds of his victory tour he will get a little taste of their approval—or lack thereof.
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