... quite frankly, this particular citizen doesn’t give a flying fuck whether you choose to stew or boil or fry or bake in your damn juices over a fucking election that you won...at least that’s what the reporting of Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman at the New York Times is saying.
At the root of Mr. Trump’s unpredictable presidency, according to people close to him, is a deep frustration about attacks on his legitimacy, and a worry that Washington does not see him as he sees himself.
As he careens from one controversy to another, many of them of his own making — like his abrupt decision to fire the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, who was leading an investigation into the president’s associates — Mr. Trump seems determined to prove that he won the election on his own. It was not Russian interference. It was not Mr. Comey’s actions in the case involving Hillary Clinton’s emails. It was not a fluke of the Electoral College system. It was all him.
He sits in the dining room or Oval Office stewing over the Russia inquiry that Mr. Comey was managing, arguing to anyone who will listen that the matter is all a Democratic-inspired conspiracy to undermine the validity of his victory. Even as he was defending his decision to dismiss Mr. Comey last week, Mr. Trump signed an executive order creating a commission to investigate voting fraud in a quixotic effort to prove his unsubstantiated contention that he would have won the popular vote against Mrs. Clinton but for millions of ballots that were illegally cast against him.
I think that most people know, Mr. Trump...you won the presidency thanks to winning three Rust Belt States by 80,000 total votes; states that had voted Democratic through several election cycles until 2016.
There‘s no need to show those tired-ass election maps to reporters that interview you and are assigned to cover your administration...I mean, PUH-LEASE.
I doubt that any of the previous forty-four presidents would say that they won the presidency and that it was all about themselves and their actions, only, whether they won in a FDR/Nixon/Reagan-like landslide or whether they did not win the popular vote, as was the case with George W. Bush.
After President George W. Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 but won the narrowest of Electoral College victories after the Supreme Court stopped a hotly disputed Florida recount, he did not publicly dwell on the way he had gotten into office.
Instead, Mr. Bush plowed forward with his agenda and put the election behind him, rarely speaking of it again. He also made a point of reaching out to Democrats in the early days of his administration on issues like education and tax cuts to try to heal some of the wounds caused by the election, eventually winning bipartisan votes on major legislation in his first year.
Hell, there are a lot of people who still refuse to acknowledge that George W. Bush was the duly-elected 43rd President of the United States (and now is not the time for that debate) but at least...President Bush acted as if he’d won the election.
If you won the election, Mr. Trump, then act like it. (In spite of the fact that I did not vote for you, I do believe that you are the duly elected 45th President of the United States in accordance with the procedures laid out in Article Two of the Constitution for the United States of America.)
Or...maybe there really is something going on up under the planks of your electoral victory?