Why Is Trump So Concerned About Having His Presidency Be Called 'Illegitimate'?......

[global1]

Why is he so concerned of absolving Russia of interfering with the 2016 election?

This has always bothered me. What is he worried about?

Could it be that he thinks that if his presidency is deemed 'illegitimate' that everything that he's done will have to be reversed?

I don't know why - but I've always been suspicious of his concern of 'illegitimacy'.

[secondwind]

1. Illegitimate equals: LOSER

[Thomas Hurt]

2. He is a malignant narcissist

[Wounded Bear]

3. Same reason he brags about the size of his....err...hands...

He's a legend in his own mind, and needs constant reassurance of how "great" he is.

He lives in constant fear that the real him will be exposed, and has no clue that everybody can already see it. So he surrounds himself with fawning sycophants.

[IADEMO2004]

4. 2018 election is his real problem. House majority of Democrats!!!

[demigoddess]

5. he wants to go down in the history books.

[Mystery sage]

10. He already has that, just not what his delusion thinks.

[tblue37]

6. Protecting his ego, pure and simple. nt

[rurallib]

7. because he doesn't know what the word means?

[JHB]

8. Because he associates the word "illegitimate" with "need to pay hush money"?

[Hortensis]

9. He's pouring gasoline on his supporters -- claiming WE insist THEIR election

of this president is illegitimate.

Which a lot of us do.

And the current, huge outrage is impeachment, our the latest illicit attempt to undo 2016's lawful democratic election. It's not too much (for them) to say we're trying for a coup d'etat.

Everything them makes sense when you realize that liberals/liberalism/Democrats are the fascist (and/or commie, choose one or both) threat to our democracy that they must stop to save our nation.

Of course, the fact that there is no such thing as liberal fascism, and that it is an arch-conservative form of government, is irrelevant. They know different. Someone even wrote a book on it so there'd be one.

[Grasswire2]

11. consciousness of guilt

He knows Russia got it for him.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

12. I tend to think it's because it's a blow to his fragile ego

Any hint of a taint of illegitimacy in his eyes would cripple his view of himself as infallible and "perfect", especially if he really is a narcissist. He has to continue to attack and discredit anything to the contrary in order to preserve his self-image and maintain his charade that he won fair and square. George W. Bush's (s)election was of a similar dubious nature, but he didn't spend nearly this amount of time, energy, etc. trying to swat away at concerns that he might not have been legitimately installed as POTUS (though I guess that, in his case, SCOTUS gave him that veneer of legitimacy) but GWB wasn't the same kind of person Trump appears to be.