A One America News Network reporter tweeted out an image of Trump’s latest White House decoration: a framed image of the “2016 Presidential Election Results.”
Spotted: A map to be hung somewhere in the West Wing pic.twitter.com/TpPPDyNFtE
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) May 11, 2017
Trump’s obsession with rehashing the election results is almost as comical as it is predictable.
On April 27, Trump handed out maps of the election results to reporters from Reuters.
“Here, you can take that, that’s the final map of the numbers. It’s pretty good, right? The red is obviously us,” he explained, 170 days after the election was over.
On April 16, the day after the Tax March – in which hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets to demand that Trump release his tax returns – Trump tweeted this:
I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017
Moments later, the followed up with this:
Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017
The fact that Trump can tweet that about his “Electoral College” victory and that “The election is over” all in the same breath without noticing the irony is, in my opinion, more impressive than the Electoral College victory in itself.
On the 100th day of his Presidency, Trump tried to get The Washington Post to run a map of his Electoral College victory on the front page of the paper. In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, the White House Bureau Chief Philip Rucker said:
“He brought out the map, he said, “Aren’t you impressed by this map? Aren’t you surprised by this map?” He encouraged me to take it home to my colleagues at the Washington Post and try to run it on the front page of our newspaper. So I think he cares a lot about the map.”
In fact, The Washington Post reported that “on more than a third of the days since Nov. 8, Trump has mentioned the election results.”
The ultimate irony, though, came from Trump’s Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, who I can only imagine was thoroughly reprimanded for this Freudian slip:
"It's somewhat sad," WH spokesman Sean Spicer says that we are still talking about the November election.
— Phil Elliott (@Philip_Elliott) May 3, 2017
For once, Spicer hit the nail on the head.
What do you think?
