Trump tells tall tales in a 46-minute diatribe on the election. (Which we are not linking to here, as we normally do.)

The President Is A Lunatic

But how do you cover someone who’s just spewing BS nonstop now without amplifying that BS?

Using words like “baseless” or “unproven” don’t really work as synonyms for his most recent kinds of lies. Because there’s at least a little bit of an implication there that there’s a chance, however small, that they still might be “proven” or have some “base” in reality, when they don’t. Not even close.

Trump’s 46-minute harangue on how the election was stolen from him can be distilled down to one statement from that speech:

“It is statistically impossible that the person — me — that led the charge lost.”

In other words, he just can’t believe he lost. With all those people showing up at his rallies, in the middle of a pandemic no less, and with Republicans doing well in other races, how could he possibly have lost? I don’t know? How did the 49ers not win this year’s Super Bowl?

And I think Trump’s loss in the context he frames it can be explained very easily: people were not necessarily against Trump’s messages. Just the crazy they had to deal with on a day-to-day basis with him as the nation’s Chief Executive. And he’s giving more of an example now why they were right.