If Trump becomes president, this will be his official portrait.
Donald Trump is a very, very simple man. He has a very high opinion of polls that place him highly, and a lower opinion of polls that place him lower. You may, like interviewer Mark Halperin, wonder aloud at the ease with which Donald Trump can switch between praise and retweets of the former and crabby grumbling about, in Halperin's words, "the pollster, the organization, the methodology, the legitimacy" of the latter, upon which Donald Trump will patiently explain to you that the problem is just that
he's smarter than you, or something.
“I think you have to understand polls…” Trump said. “I believe in polls. I generally believe in polls. The thing with these polls, they are all so different. They are coming from all over the lot where one guy is up here, somebody else is up there, you see swings of ten and twelve points immediately, even the same day.”
Now that there's a new national poll showing anti-
abortion, anti-
education, anti-
Medicare/Medicaid challenger Ben Carson
inching into the lead over the single-issue xenophobe Trump, we can expect crabby Trump to be making more appearances.
It's a win-win, at the least. Ben Carson gets some time in the spotlight to talk about what grandfatherly fascism can do for you, and we get to see how Donald Trump handles the biggest amount of rejection ANYONE HAS EVER SUBJECTED HIM TO: second place in a national popularity contest.