Donald J. Trump just undermined himself.

[babylonsister]

Ezra Klein
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Donald J. Trump just undermined himself. What he wanted to do was shut down the people asking for a recount. Then he sent this tweet. If Democrats worry the votes were miscounted, and Trump himself believes that millions of people voted fraudulently, then it’s clear we need a recount to restore faith in the outcome of the election.

Meanwhile, it’s unnerving that the president-elect can’t restrain himself from making a bad situation worse on Twitter, or even hold himself to the logic of the argument he intended to make and the outcome he wanted to achieve.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/27/13758538/donald-trump-vote-illegally-tweet

Donald Trump is now questioning the legitimacy of the election he won

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/802972944532209664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump

In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally

[MFM008]

1. because......................................

hes that stupid.
If his IQ is 156 like HE says it is, i will eat my computer.

[KewlKat]

13. I believe it is 156, but I think he dropped the decimal..... 15.6 is more like it!

[uponit7771]

20. lol

[meow2u3]

18. An IQ of 156? I don't believe it, at least not now

Is that before, or after, the onset of the Alzheimer's he's trying to hide from the American people?

[lastlib]

41. OK, Donald--SHOW US THE MENSA CARD!!!

You made the claim--BACK IT UP! I don't trust ANYTHING you say until I see the proof.

[Hekate]

72. Plus 1

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. His IQ report was written by the same person who wrote his medical report.

if you remember how gloriously that was a fail.

[MFM008]

43. yes....... best health ever

at least till he drops dead from them gooey arteries.

[putitinD]

27. I'll give him half that. 78 IQ that is about right

[JHan]

29. Look at it this way..

IQ doesn't directly correlate with intelligence or rational behavior.

but .. yeah it's more like 5.6 . He lacks curiosity about the world and doesn't read.

GOd help us.

[3catwoman3]

55. And his vocabulary is...

...painfully limited.

[Canoe52]

69. Sad!

[JHan]

71. that's the theme of 2016

"Sad!"

[lastlib]

73. (I thought it was---wait for it---HUUuuuugge!)

Not really. His vocabulary is little more than high-school level, from what I see.

[maddiemom]

70. There's I.Q, and then there's E.Q. (emotional quotient- which has been recognized in more recent

years). Regardless of his I.Q,, Trump is sorely lacking in E.Q.

[Wounded Bear]

59. So, essentially you're saying he is an idiot savant?

[awoke_in_2003]

67. You got it

half right

[MADem]

60. 156! LOL!!!

He said he weighed 198, too!

That's if you remove his head, his gut, and his raddled ass!

He lies about everything!

[progressoid]

62. He IQ and his hands. Both smaller than he thinks.

[phylny]

64. I see what you did there. I see it and I like it. n/t

[catbyte]

2. Nobody cares.

Fuuuuuuuuuuck. It's hopeless. Utterly fucking hopeless.

[Grey Lemercier]

4. unfortunately you are deadly right

[gratuitous]

24. Maybe; maybe not

I would have thought that "nobody cares" that the Clinton Foundation runs a squeaky clean operation, and that it was a lie of the first water to say that Hillary Clinton profited personally from it. I would have thought that "nobody cares" that as Secretary of State, Clinton operated a private e-mail server that was totally secure from hacking because none of the hackers knew where to find it. I would have thought that "nobody cares" that the Republican candidate is an ambulatory lie machine. Okay, nobody did care about that one.

Oddly enough, people will care about all kinds of things if someone is telling them it matters again and again.

[ReformedGOPer]

3. What a moron

[Nevernose]

5. Trump believes that brown skinned people voted illegally

Not "real" Americans (white), and therefore their votes don't matter, legal or otherwise. There's no conflict of logic in HIS mind.

[WhiteTara]

56. That was exactly what he meant.

Every day is a new horror show and this is just the preview.

[saltpoint]

6. Probably should have had a meeting in which

it was decided that Mr. Trump would not have access to his Twitter account for, say, at least 4 years.

Or, maybe there was such a meeting and Mr. Trump ignored the conclusion.

Pretty dumb to claim that over 2 million people voted illegally. Dude's still just the president-elect, not the president.

[putitinD]

30. He is going to be twittering up a storm for the next 4 years. as a distraction from what he is

really up to. He and his cronies are going to steal us blind. and the whole time distract us with inane tweets.

[Merlot]

61. agreed.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Trump's really not such a smart guy

but he's a sure deceptive SOB.

[keithbvadu2]

35. 'Devious' is a good word.

'Devious' is a good word.

[flamingdem]

8. Never thought I'd be willing to see a military coup of the USA

Anything but this..

[roamer65]

22. Be careful what you wish for...

You just may get it.

[flamingdem]

28. Flynn President for life

Okay, best think this through..

[rzemanfl]

52. I have had that thought myself. n/t

[Martin Eden]

9. His supporters believe the fake news

... that millions of illegal immigrants voted.

I don't see how this tweet undermines Trump any more than so many of his previous outrageously stupid tweets.

[Wellstone ruled]

15. It appears to me,

with all the propaganda about this bull crap about illegals voting,there is something amiss in the Election Results. In the last 48 hours,we have seen Thin Skin Donnie amping up his retorts. Notice how certain members of his Coup Club are coming unhinged. Couple of things that I will be watching,Monday's Stock Market open,if it goes south,watch out for some real pain. And you know Donnie Dumb Nuts is going to explode about day break. He will call Joe Scab and bitch about Hillary and how Obama. put her up to it.

Someone knows more than they are saying about these recounts. This Election is not over by no means. Hunch tells us,the Electronic Tabulators might be juiced.

[keithbvadu2]

36. If most of the illegals are Hispanic, remember that he said Hispanics would vote for him in yooooge

If most of the illegals are Hispanic, remember that he said Hispanics would vote for him in yooooge numbers

[randome]

10. I can't wait for his first press conference.

As inept as the media generally is, it will be like shooting fish in a barrel to question him on matters like this. This Presidency is going to be the awesomest train wreck of the century!

Hopefully not many innocents will be hurt.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[moonscape]

16. You think he'll have press conferences? n/t

[bdamomma]

25. not really he will have his talking heads Ivanka and Kellyann Con.....way

its takes one con to know another!!!

Forget about the state of the union address.

[maddiemom]

32. My question, as well.

[cilla4progress]

17. About half the time

I think like this, too.

[Me.]

11. I Think He Thinks

That brown-skinned people should've only had 3/5 of a vote

[superpatriotman]

12. Remember his doctors note?

I demand a second opinion!

[KewlKat]

14. if he gets sworn in, he have a REAL physical at Walter Reed.

Maybe then we'll know just what's wrong with this guy. Maybe it's the testosterone he's taking that makes him moody......

[awoke_in_2003]

68. Nah

It's the speed

[spanone]

19. hey trump, you're gonna be president, stop the fucking lying.

or show proof that 'millions' voted illegally. absurd.

[Vinca]

21. If "millions of people" voted illegally, not only should we have a recount, we should have a full

blown, Justice Department forensic investigation of the entire election from ballots to machines.

[KewlKat]

26. I'll second that! I'd vote for it, but I guess it wouldn't count.

[bucolic_frolic]

40. The entire election will have to be redone!

This one has no integrity at this point. No one believes the outcome, the
polls were all wrong, not even the "winner" believes it.

2017 do-over. Just like the Supreme Court vacancy, try again next year.

[Nay]

50. I agree! We should take Trump's declaration at its face value and have a total

recount in most states. I want the machines looked at, paper ballots recounted, everything.

[sellitman]

31. Horses Ass

Sorry Ed.

[grantcart]

33. Maybe he's right about the popular vote being incorrect.

Maybe he lost by 5-6 million.

[saltpoint]

34. Plus 1 eom

[GoCubsGo]

54. Yup.

Everything he accuses others of doing, he has bee doing himself. Including rigging the vote in his own favor.

[NRaleighLiberal]

37. join in annoying him. I am tweeting to him that he is not my president, never my president,

and an unfit to serve narcissist. Send a snowstorm of irritating tweets to him. Keep him unglued!

[YOHABLO]

38. This is why we have to recount ! He's too f..ing dangerous

[bucolic_frolic]

39. He's claiming the vote was rigged by more than 2 million??

Goodness, we really do have to get to the bottom of this!

[0rganism]

42. not really, but he just undermined democracy -- again

one thing i can infer from this: the "millions of people who voted illegally" won't be voting in 2020. maybe you know some of them?

it's about time we stopped trying to mock him and start paying attention to his words. we haven't hit rock bottom yet -- in fact, there's still a whole lot of democracy and national institution left to demolish. the wrecking crew gets here in 2 months.

[Takket]

44. media just shrugged this off

ABC News called his claim of millions of fraudulent votes "baseless and without evidence"

NOW you use that phrase?????????????? NOW??????????????

Not when he said mexico sends murders and rapists here

Not when he said hillary was a criminal

Not when he said global warming was a chinese hoax.

NOW, when he calls the legitimacy of his own election into question, NOW you point out that he said something "baseless and without evidence". FUCK the GOP media.

[kentuck]

45. I don't know how I over-looked your post.

I had duplicated it.

A pathological liar that lies to himself, in public.

[kentuck]

46. "hoisted on his own petard"

Shakespeare's phrase, "hoist with his own petard," is an idiom that means "to be harmed by one's own plan to harm someone else" or "to fall into one's own trap", implying that one could be lifted (blown) upward by one's own bomb, or in other words, be foiled by one's own plan.

Petard - Wikipedia - private
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petard

[paleotn]

47. 156 IQ? ...

...more like 85.

[SharonAnn]

51. He's shrewd, clever, manipulative, etc. but not intellectually smart. No way his IQ is that high.

Show me!

He doesn't understand some of the simplest stuff. And it's not just his ADD. He's unable to grasp highler level thinking concepts.

And besides that, he's a pig!

[Tanuki]

48. He has corectly pegged his base as a bunch of gullible fools who will believe any lie he throws out

there. There was a statistic on one of the news shows this morning stating that the majority of Americans do NOT believe he has a "mandate", so he probably figured it was time to propagate more bullshit. His handlers obviously don't care about the well-being of our country and have little regard for democracy, but it's hard to believe they are letting him do this to himself, and by association to them as well.

[Coyotl]

49. He is dog whistling his base to steal elections.

[robbedvoter]

53. opened the door for a redo/recount. 3 candidates agree now

here's Granholm
https://twitter.com/JenGranholm/status/803022495653789696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[Ms. Toad]

57. Every time he tweets something from one of the fake news sites,

There ought to be a flood of tweets identifying the source of the fake news and pointing it out.

I've responded to this one. The source of the information is infowars, and identification of it as a fake news site can be found on fakenewswatch.com

[Ms. Toad]

58. Everytime he tweets something from a fake new site,

There ought to be a flood of tweets identifying the source of the fake news and pointing it out.

I've responded to this one. The source of the information is infowars, and identification of it as a fake news site can be found on fakenewswatch.com

[Raine1967]

63. I love Vox , But the idea that he * Just undermined himself *

Once again gives this President-Elect an air of normalcy.

He's not normal and this is not normal. This is dangerous and trump proved that insanity again.

[Raster]

65. RECOUNT FLORIDA... RECOUNT FLORIDA... RECOUNT FLORIDA... RECOUNT FLORIDA... RECOUNT FLORIDA...

RECOUNT FLORIDA... RECOUNT FLORIDA... RECOUNT FLORIDA... RECOUNT FLORIDA... RECOUNT FLORIDA!

[bucolic_frolic]

66. Any chance

any one of the political parties could go to the Supreme Court and
have the whole election nullified? If evidence of voter fraud, hacking,
vote count padding emerge, that evidence could be added to
Russian hacking, and DT's own characterization of rampant illegal
voting.

There is decreasing confidence in these results, and legitimacy is
out the window.