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Donald Trump does not speak like a winner. Sometimes it seems that in the end you no longer believe what you say. But that can be misleading.
The president looks like a beaten man: Donald Trump after his appearance before the media at the White House.
Photo: Keystone
When historians look back to the 2020 US presidential election, Donald Trump’s appearance at the White House on Thursday night will no doubt play a major role in the processing of what happened. The president delivered a speech riddled with lies and baseless accusations that are rarely, perhaps never heard in American history.
He said he won the election if only legal votes were counted. By “legal” he apparently meant: vote for him. The election was “stolen” by the Democrats. All of this is extremely unfair. It went on for minutes. And because the accusations were so egregious and so devoid of any reference to reality, The main television channels NBC, ABC and CBS decided to disconnect from the live broadcast.. That was also a monstrous process.
On NBC, host Lester Holt appeared on the screen and said, “We have to stop here because the president made several false accusations.” ABC and CBS reacted similarly. The speech was lengthy on CNN and Fox News, but even on Fox, usually the president’s court station, the host said there was no evidence to support Trump’s remarks. When Fox News is no longer by his side, Donald Trump will feel lonely.
Senator Graham Supports Trump
After this appearance, Trump could only count on his most loyal followers. On the great opportunist Lindsey Graham, for example: shortly before his election in 2016, the senator called Trump a “hypocritical racist and xenophobe.” Shortly after his election, he became their most hasty defense attorney. He called Trump’s allegations “momentous” and promised to donate half a million dollars to his legal efforts to contest the election.
Senator Graham said the Philadelphia elections were “dishonest as a snake.” He spoke of Philadelphia because mail ballots are still counted there. These could help Democratic challenger Joe Biden win a majority in the state of Pennsylvania, despite Trump initially clearly leading there. Without Pennsylvania, Trump cannot win the election, regardless of the results in the other financial statements.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy also backed away from Trump. The president won the elections, he said. McCarthy looked like a man watching a hail storm and saying, “What a wonderful sunny day.” Then he decided to go the short distance from strange statements to dangerous ones saying: “All who listen: do not shut up. Don’t give it rest. We can’t let this happen in front of all of us. ”He was only meant to mean that he was urging Trump supporters to take the lead, whatever.
There are also republicans who distance themselves
Other Republicans distanced themselves from the president. Congressman Adam Kinzinger said, “This is freaking out.” The president should stop spreading misinformation. Chris Christie, the former New Jersey governor who groomed Trump for television duels with Biden, said there was no evidence of the president’s remarks. Trump rocks.
The statements by the two Republicans may have been a harbinger of what some observers believe will happen in their own party, if Trump, as he currently appears, does not win the election. It becomes a general “Donald who?” to be heard.
Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, which brings together the Republican threads, only published one tweet. Now the courts would have to decide, this is how it works in America. Otherwise, nothing was heard from him. However, that could be because McConnell doesn’t care who the president is under his command.
The fact that President Trump experienced at least one partially sleepless night after his appearance could be followed on his Twitter account, where else. Shortly after three in the morning, he announced that he would win the election with ease with the votes cast legally. The Supreme Court should decide now.
Twitter provided this message with a warning. The company had done this more frequently in recent days when Trump spread lies or false accusations. The president was so frustrated that he immediately launched a new tweet: “Twitter is out of control,” he wrote.
“Out of control”, however, rather describes Trump’s actions in the face of impending defeat. “Stop the count!” He demanded in a tweet, for example. He overlooked the fact that if the count had been stopped immediately, Joe Biden would have won the election. Of course, Trump just wanted the count to stop where the tide was gradually turning against him.
In Arizona, where he still has a slim chance of winning despite being behind Biden like in neighboring Nevada, he sees himself on the right track, he said.
Trump didn’t seem combative, he didn’t seem convinced, he didn’t seem like someone who still wants something.
It is part of the traditions of American politics for the losing candidate to give a so-called “concession speech,” in other words, a speech in which he acknowledges defeat. That is certainly the only speech one does not want to give in politics, but it is also an opportunity to show greatness.
No one expects Trump to deliver such a speech, at least not without lashing out again. And it is still too early. Nothing is nominally decided. Yet what Trump did on Thursday night was, in a sense, exactly that: a “concession speech.” Not a dignified speech, but the speech of a candidate who has lost.
Trump didn’t seem combative, he didn’t seem convinced, he didn’t seem like someone who still wants something. You could almost say: he was lying to himself, but perhaps he no longer wanted to believe himself. As he trotted off the podium with his shoulders slumped, he looked like a beaten man.
He read large parts of his speech in the newspaper, mostly monotonous, sometimes hesitant. It didn’t really seem to have anything to do with the text, an impression that was particularly evident when his rival told him at one point how “Mr. Biden” spoke. Trump gave Joe Biden many names. He called him “Sleepy Joe,” ” Creepy Joe “,” Crazy Joe “,” Slow Joe “, he also called him” Joe Hiden. “But he never spoke of him as Mr. Biden. No doubt someone else had written it in his manuscript.
Biden is preparing for the victory speech
Trump was expected to lock himself up against defeat. He himself had announced that he would send his lawyers immediately after the elections. He said it like he was about to unleash a pack of hounds from the chain. In fact, these lawyers are in the country. And Trump has the right to check if the choice is correct. (Read the Analysis “Trump is no longer about votes, but chaos”.)
Joe Biden also reappeared in public on Thursday. He has not yet claimed victory, but now he is always very presidential. “Democracies are a little messy sometimes,” he said. “And sometimes they need a little patience. But this patience has been rewarded for 240 years with a system of government for which the world envies us. “
You can argue about this statement. But while it seemed like Donald Trump had given the first part of his farewell speech at the White House, Joe Biden looked at that moment as if he was gradually warming up for his victory speech.
