I don't think, Trump has realized yet what US history-books will write about his election...

[DetlefK]

He thinks, he will go down in history as the biggest and the best...



Let's look at the facts:



Donald Trump had had no consistent republican convictions before becoming the republican candidate.

He was regarded as an outlier-candidate and, as a result, got massive free media-coverage.

Turning the anti-government rhethoric of the Republican Party against the Republican Party, he was able to defeat the other republican nominees, who hailed from the political establishment.

In an unprecedented move, FBI-Director James Comey incorrectly hinted to the public that Hillary Clinton was under criminal investigation, only to later backtrack after voters had cast their votes with that in mind.

After the election, the CIA concluded that russian hackers had retrieved sensitive data from RNC and DNC-servers prior to the election. However only data from the DNC was passed on to Wikileaks, who leaked it, surrounding the DNC and Hillary Clinton even more with an aura of scandal, even though there still was none. It is unknown, why the data from the RNC wasn't leaked.

On a related note, prior to the election as well, Donald Trump unilaterally changed the republican policy-platform to be more friendly to Russia and publicly maintained Russia's innocence despite receiving US intelligence briefings to the contrary.

As for the election itself, happening under the cloud of misinformation described above, Donald Trump won the Electoral College but lost the popular vote by 2.6 million votes to Hillary Clinton. Of further note is that the voter-turnout was the lowest in 20 years and that almost every poll had predicted a victory for Hillary Clinton.

The election-result was marred by severe accusations of voter-fraud from Green Party-candidate Jill Stein and, notably, the winner of the election, Donald Trump himself. However, technical problems severely limited the recount-efforts or rendered them entirely impossible, leading to no changes to the result.

[Solly Mack]

1. Fairly certain he doesn't care. He'll just tweet his displeasure and feel vindicated.

And, depending on who is writing the history books, there is no telling what they will say about him. Look at the crap Texas tried to pass off as history as recently as 2015.

As for people writing about him, will depend on which side they come down on - and if people can believe Pizzagate, they can believe anything that says he was the greatest president ever.

Add to that, if people really gave a damn about history Trump wouldn't be p-elect right now.

[mercuryblues]

2. You took the words

right off my keyboard.

[Solly Mack]

9. I was listening in to your keyboard. :)

[Nay]

6. +1000. Thanks for not treating Trump like he's normal. He couldn't care

less what history says, never mind that history will be massaged by GOP minions to make him out as the BESTEST PREZIDENT EVAR. See Texas textbook wars.

[Solly Mack]

8. No worries. Nothing normal about it.

You're welcome.

[uncle ray]

3. low voter turnout, yet the only person ever to get more votes than her was Obama.

[Wounded Bear]

4. No worries...."History is written by the winners."- Napolean nt

[annabanana]

5. It doesn't matter. He is just a dumb tool

being wielded by Putin.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. I don't think he cares.