By Michael Woyton
The difference in messages was striking — and not surprising.
In a Thanksgiving Day post on the social media site formerly known as Twitter, President Joe Biden said he was grateful for the trust put in him to serve the American public in the White House.
“May we use this moment to take time from our busy lives and focus on what matters most: Our families, our friends, our neighbors, and the fact that we’ve been blessed to live in America, the greatest country on Earth,” Biden wrote.
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Contrast that to what the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist president-elect Donald Trump posted on “Truth” Social:
“Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who have worked so hard to destroy our Country, but who have miserably failed, and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our Nation just gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
You have to wonder why he can’t just accept the fact that he won and get on with it. He is a bitter, petty, vindictive person and doesn’t want to let us forget that. Not that there’s any chance of that.
Trump certainly has convinced himself that he won a landslide victory.
While there is no question that the public voted to return to office someone who incited an insurrection against the government, it was far from a landslide.
On Friday, the Associated Press updated its tally of the votes to 76.9 million for Trump and 74.4 million for Vice President Kamala Harris.
That breaks down to 50 percent for Trump to 48.4 percent to Harris. The previous tally was 50.5 percent for Trump. Votes are still being counted, so that lead could decreased.
Anyone without a massive, undeserved ego would think it prudent to admit that the race was close and work to the best interests of all the voters — not just the tiny, tiny majority.
An analysis of previous elections showed that Trump’s 2024 Electoral College count of 312 was better than his or Biden’s EC votes in 2016 and 2020, CNN reported. While it outperformed George W. Bush’s EC counts in 2000 and 2004, it was far less that Barack Obama’s 365 EC votes in 2008 and 332 in 2012.
ABC News poses the question: “Who cares if it was a landslide or not?”
The article said soon-to-be-president-again Trump is only the latest in a long-line of presidents-elect to “convert electoral success into political capital to pass their agendas.”
There is one problem with that, ABC News said. “Political scientists who have studied the idea of presidential mandates generally agree that they’re made up.”
Personally, I think that Trump just has to claim the largest, biggest, grandest whatever because that is simply the way he is.
Once again, the mainstream media is trying to shoehorn him into normalcy, instead of seeing him as the danger he continues to be to the United States.
And what the hell is this? (It is a real tweet from vice-president-elect JD Vance)
Lead art: Screen shot of JC Vance tweet from X.com
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