1 of 1- Goose
- Cogito ergo sum
Offline 
- Registered: 1/29/2015
- Posts: 13,427
Who Does This?
7 months after the election and Trump still looks at that map every day and now displays it.
Who does that?
Glory Days,,,,,,,,,,
Trump to display map of 2016 election results in the White House: report
President Trump is planning on hanging a map displaying his 2016 Electoral College victory in the White House, according to a report.
One America News Network White House reporter spotted the framed map being carried through the White House by a Trump staffer.
"Spotted: A map to be hung somewhere in the West Wing," the reporter tweeted.
Trump has often brought up his election victory over Hillary Clinton in the months since he took office. In April, the Washington Post's White House bureau chief reported that Trump had asked the Post to run the election map on the front page of their newspaper.
Days before, Trump interrupted another interview with a Reuters reporter to pass out copies of the map showing his victory.
Last edited by Goose (5/13/2017 3:36 pm)
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
- Just Fred
- Duke of Cortona
Offline
- Registered: 1/29/2015
- Posts: 3,863
Re: Who Does This?
The thing is that more people live in the blue areas. The map shows real estate, which by the way, doesn't have a vote. People elect presidents, not pieces of soil. I guess he's feeling good that more chunks of dirt voted for him while more people voted for Clinton?
- Goose
- Cogito ergo sum
Offline
- Registered: 1/29/2015
- Posts: 13,427
Re: Who Does This?
Just Fred wrote:
The thing is that more people live in the blue areas. The map shows real estate, which by the way, doesn't have a vote. People elect presidents, not pieces of soil. I guess he's feeling good that more chunks of dirt voted for him while more people voted for Clinton?
The obsession with the election is telling. For Trump and his fans it was important that he win; not because of the great ideas he has or the things that he would do as president but simply for the pleasure of vanquishing their enemies, and the thrill of winning. The entire movement had the seriousness, and intellectualism of an SEC championship game.
For the first time in history, it's not the losers who are struggling to get past an election. It is the winners:
"In the small dining room next to the Oval Office where he works much of the time, President Trump keeps a stack of color-coded maps of the United States representing the results of the 2016 election. The counties he won are blotchy red and span most of the nation.
Mr. Trump sometimes hands the maps out to visitors as a kind of parting gift, and a framed portrait-size version was hung on a wall in the West Wing last week. In conversations, the president dwells on the map and its import, reminding visitors about how wrong the polls were and inflating the scope of his victory.
At the root of Mr. Trump’s unpredictable presidency, according to people close to him, is a deep frustration about attacks on his legitimacy, and a worry that Washington does not see him as he sees himself.
He sits in the Oval Office stewing over the Russia inquiry , arguing to anyone who will listen that the matter is all a Democratic-inspired conspiracy to undermine the validity of his victory. ,,,,,, Trump signed an executive order creating a commission to investigate voting fraud in a quixotic effort to prove his unsubstantiated contention that he would have won the popular vote against Mrs. Clinton but for millions of ballots that were illegally cast against him."
The Election Is Over, but Trump Can’t Seem to Get Past It
Last edited by Goose (5/14/2017 5:27 am)
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
- •
Thread Starter- tennyson
- Exchanger
Offline
- Registered: 2/06/2015
- Posts: 6,654
Re: Who Does This?
He HAS to look backwards, because the future is not all cheers and congrats (as we have seen).
This being POTUS is a tough job !!!
"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
- Rongone
- Sentient Being
Offline
- From: Keeping Calm, Sailing On
- Registered: 1/31/2015
- Posts: 2,872
Re: Who Does This?
My sources tell me he's hanging up the map because he's lost. He can't figure out how to work the navigation APP on his iPhone, and, when his aides tell him he's going somewhere on Airforce 1, he wants somebody to point out the destination on the map.
He's really going to be lost when he goes on this big international excursion he's got coming up. Aides say he still hasn't mastered the concept of the globe yet . . . he still thinks the earth is flat.