Donald Trump is a bully who was handed a very public loss on Monday night. Naturally, he’s having trouble with that, so he’s making some very public excuses, Zeke Miller reports:
“I was also holding back, “ Trump said, in the familiar wording of a vanquished schoolyard bully. “I didn’t want to do anything to embarrass her.” [...]
But it was at the rally in Melbourne that Trump’s true discontent was apparent. Then in nearly point-by-point fashion off a teleprompter, Trump recounted the debate topics, revised his answers, and tried to offer some of the same falsehoods.
“Does everybody believe me?” Trump asked. “I was against going into Iraq. And it’s so well documented.” (His only public statement from the time of the war’s start — to radio host Howard Stern — was in support of the war.)
Trump also sought a bit of a redo, alternating some of the kinds of lines he could have used against Clinton in the debate with more excuses for why he didn’t perform better. “She’s an insider, fighting only for her donors and insiders,” Trump said.
“The MC was arguing with me, taking up a lot of time,” Trump complained of his inability to make his points.
You lost, Donald. You lost because you don’t know what you’re talking about, because you’re too lazy to study up and know what you’re talking about, because you’re thin-skinned, because your weak points are so predictable that Hillary Clinton was able to get under your skin again and again. And “I was holding back and also here’s what I should have said, yeah, that’s the ticket’ is not exactly convincing anyone that you did anything other than get beaten.
He’s really got nothing but bluster. That bluster is working on a scarily large number of people, but at some point Trump will run out of people eager to put a schoolyard bully in the White House as long as that bully is also racist. And losing very publicly—and to a girl!—on Monday night was not the way to broaden his audience.
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