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STERLING, United States: United States President Donald Trump, who has refused to admit defeat in a hard-contested election called for Democrat Joe Biden, has stood defiantly hours after US networks announced the victory of Biden.
“I won the election … bad things happened,” he broke out in a lengthy tweet in capital letters after returning to the White House on Saturday afternoon (November 7) after a golf session, the first time he left the White House. since Election Day.
Twitter re-flagged the claim for containing disputed information.
In a statement previously issued from the golf course, he also claimed that Biden and the media, whom Trump passed his presidency calling “enemies of the people,” were fabricating the results.
“We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him – they don’t want the truth exposed,” Trump said.
“The simple fact is that this election is far from over.”
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The president left the White House on Saturday morning as the last crucial vote counts were about to arrive from Pennsylvania and a few other battle states.
He was already behind Democrat Joe Biden in the all-important state-by-state Electoral College vote recount – the handwriting on the wall was becoming impossible to ignore.
So Trump, known for regularly playing golf courses, crossed the Potomac River to the Trump National Golf Course in Sterling, Virginia.
Trump was there when the major US television networks – first CNN, then NBC, CBS, ABC and finally Fox – declared that the new results from Pennsylvania had brought Biden to the top, and to the White House. , in January.
He seemed determined to project a sense of calm imperturbability when his afternoon round was over.
President Donald Trump returns to the White House after a round of golf in Sterling, Virginia, on November 7, 2020, the day the US television networks declared him the loser in the presidential election AFP / ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS
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Seeing a wedding couple posing for photos outside the clubhouse, the president offered to join them, videos posted on social media show.
Dressed in dark gray pants, a gray jacket, and a white base “Make America Great Again” hat, he engaged in what appeared to be a lighthearted prank.
As he was walking away, several people yelled at him, “We love you! We love you!”
Later, as thousands of exultant Biden supporters raucously celebrated in front of the White House and elsewhere in the American capital, Trump’s caravan returned to the White House.
The president had nothing else on his agenda for Saturday.
