I Was Told There Would Be No Math

Our current "president" was asked in a recent interview if he was prepared to lose the 2020 election. He replied, "No. Probably not."

Okay. Bravo for his positive attitude and his team spirit. Then he went on: “It would be much better if I said, ‘Yeah.’ It would be much easier for me to say, ‘Oh yes,’” he offered, but said, “No, I’m probably not too prepared to lose. I don’t like losing. I haven’t lost very much in my life.”

This is when Chuck Todd, host of Meet the Press asked, “You didn’t like the fact that you lost the popular vote? That bothered you, didn’t it.”

“I’ll say something that, again, is controversial,” T to the Rump said. “There were a lot of votes that I don’t believe. There was much illegal voting,” he added, vaguely referring to California and a settlement by Judicial Watch requiring Los Angeles County to remove as many as one and a half million inactive registrations as a part of a “massive voter roll clean-up.”

And it is at this point that I would like to make a clear distinction between saying something that is controversial and something that is wrong. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by more than three million votes. They were counted. There was no evidence of any of those inactive registrations being used to vote for anyone, Trump or Clinton.
And now, as we approach three years since the election the current "president" won in the Electoral College, he continues to dispute the numbers. Curious that this latest struggle with reality came just days after he posted a meme of himself running for president forever. This amusing little bit of animation received nearly three hundred thousand likes, suggesting that there are a few hundred thousand people out there who think that the Twenty-second Amendment to our constitution is really only there for show and wouldn't it be grand if we had this guy as "president for life." All of which may or may not be controversial, but it certainly registers as a little worrisome. Like a year ago when he was kidding around with some supporters about China's new President, Xi Jinping. “President for life. No, he’s great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it’s great. Maybe we’ll have to give that a shot some day.”
It certainly would take all the math out of the business of governance, wouldn't it?