Donald Trump is concerned that people are taking Donald Trump too seriously when he says little things like how he might not accept the outcome of the election, leading to tiny fears that he intends to try to delegitimize the next president, turn his rally circuit into a tent revival of unrest, and generally force us all to keep paying attention to Donald Trump—which is the last thing that anyone wants. He wants us to know that he really, truly means it, but we shouldn't take it so hard.
“Yes, I think too much is being made,” Trump told Bo Thompson on WBT-AM’s “Charlotte’s Morning News.” “But, you know, everybody had me winning the third debate and the second debate handily, easily. And when I made that statement, I made it knowingly, because what’s happening is absolutely ridiculous.”
He threatened democracy "knowingly,” but "too much is being made” about it. I mean, you had your little democracy for a couple of centuries. Really, who’d have thought it would last that long? Oh, and the "everyone” who had him winning the last two debates would be Eric, Bannon, and an army of twitter bots. He’s learned not to ask anyone else. But wait, there’s more. There’s … this.
“You have — first of all, you have a media that as you see has obviously been very unfair, which is, I guess, fine, but it’s not really appropriate,” he said Monday. “But you have a media that’s a very, very — you know, it’s really a pile-on, the likes of which nobody’s ever seen, because I’m going to protect the people, and the media are the exact opposite and they represent the, you know, opposite.”
The media are the exact opposite and they represent the … opposite. Forget the threat to democracy—that sentence alone is horrifying.
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