Trump Insists He’ll Blather Incoherently About “Winning” the Election for All Eternity

On Monday, the Electoral College is meeting to cast votes and make it clear, for the people in the cheap seats and/or the White House, that Joe Biden won the 2020 election and will be the next president of the United States. This follows the events of last Friday, wherein the Supreme Court rejected a Texas lawsuit attempting to overturn election results in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, and Wisconsin, marking, approximately, the 97th time Donald Trump, or someone working on his behalf, was laughed out of court trying to make the case that he didn’t lose and will keep his job come January 20. At this point, a halfway reasonable person would probably pack it in and focus his efforts elsewhere, perhaps on the business of preemptively pardoning his adult children for all the crimes they may commit in the future, or his alleged 2024 bid for office. But obviously, that‘s not how crazy works, and being told for the umpteenth time he’s not going to be president anymore was never going to suddenly cause Trump to accept reality. Instead, he’s made it clear that he’ll never accept the will of the people and will most likely be screaming about the “RIGGED ELECTION” for all eternity.

Speaking to Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade for an interview that aired Sunday, Trump repeated his baseless election-fraud claims and insisted his legal team will continue to file frivolous lawsuits for as long as they’re funded by his chump supporters. “No, it’s not over,” Trump told Kilmeade. “We keep going, and we’re going to continue to go forward. We have numerous local cases. We’re, you know, in some of the states that got rigged and robbed from us. We won every one of them. We won Pennsylvania. We won Michigan. We won Georgia by a lot.” Asked by Kilmeade how he plans to overturn the election results before Congress meets on January 6 to officially count all of the Electoral College votes, Trump said, “We’re going to speed it up as much as we can, but you can only go so fast. They give us very little time.” Later, he repeated his argument that because bookies thought he was going to win at one point, he should get to serve a second term:

When Kilmeade seemingly attempted to do journalism, noting the concerns that Trump is doing major damage to the country by attempting to cry fraud, the president said, shockingly, that he doesn’t share those concerns. “I worry about the country having an illegitimate president,” he said. “That’s what I worry about. A president that lost and lost badly. This wasn’t, like, a close election…. I didn’t lose. The election was rigged.”

Naturally, Trump is also not bothered about the possibility of unintentionally helping Democrats pick up two Senate seats in Georgia. Per The Washington Post:

Some Republicans have worried that Trump’s efforts to undermine the legitimacy of the presidential election could deter some GOP voters from going to the polls Jan. 5 in Georgia, which is holding two Senate runoffs that could determine which party controls the upper chamber. Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.), who along with Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) is running for reelection, urged Republicans to cast their ballot, even if they don’t trust the system.

Yes, even as his f–ks over other Republicans, even as the notoriously conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board accepts that it’s over, Trump apparently has no plans to concede. Not now, not ever. “Swing States that have found massive VOTER FRAUD, which is all of them, CANNOT LEGALLY CERTIFY these votes as complete & correct without committing a severely punishable crime,” he manically tweeted Sunday. “Everybody knows that dead people, below age people, illegal immigrants, fake signatures, prisoners and many others voted illegally. Also, machine ‘glitches’ (another word for FRAUD), ballot harvesting, non-resident voters, fake ballots, “stuffing the ballot box”, votes for pay, roughed up Republican Poll Watchers, and sometimes even more votes than people voting, took place in Detroit, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, and elsewhere. In all Swing State cases, there are far more votes than are necessary to win the State, and the Election itself. Therefore, VOTES CANNOT BE CERTIFIED. THIS ELECTION IS UNDER PROTEST!”

Oh, and it case it was in anyway unclear: he doesn’t actually want to run for president again in 2024, he just wants people he wants to run for president in 2024. Per Politico:

The president’s recent discussions with those around him reveal that he sees his White House comeback deliberations as a way to earn the commodity he needs most after leaving office: attention…The president has spent days calling a dozen or more allies to ask what they think he needs to do over the next two years to “stay part of the conversation,” according to two people, including one who spoke to the president. And while Trump has told allies he plans to run for president again, he has also indicated he could back out in two years if he determines he’ll have a tough time winning, said three people familiar with the discussions.

Essentially, at this point, Trump appears just as interested in people talking about a Trump 2024 campaign as he is in actually launching a real campaign, even if he may ultimately turn his flirtation into a serious bid, according to interviews with 11 Republicans who worked for Trump or helped in his two races…Attention will help sustain his business, parts of which lost millions of dollars while he was in office. Attention will help pay off his debts, which will need to be paid off in the coming years. Attention will help discredit his investigators, who are examining whether Trump illegally inflated his assets.

It’s a strategy Trump has used before. Prior to his 2016 run, Trump expressed interest in at least four different presidential bids spanning all the way to the late 1980s, only to ultimately back out.