Onumba.com —- President Donald Trump won several states in the recent presidential elections.
One of those states is the great state of Denial.
It appears President Trump is having a pretty rough time managing defeat. So rather than man up and accept his loss with dignity, he chose being a petulant child. Now the whole world is watching the leader of the free world throwing tantrum like a baby whose favorite toy was yanked from him.
But please, pay no attention to the absolutely unhinged theatrics now playing out since former Vice-President won the election. It’s just that ——– crazy theatrics. It is really a tragic continuation of what we saw the last four years. It is abundantly clear the election was free and fair and Trump lost to Biden.
Biden racked up 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232. Two hundred and seventy (270) electoral votes is needed to win.
Trump, now the outgoing president, would not concede, though.
But the president’s ill-advised refusal to concede the election should not really surprise anyone. Heck —— he even predicted his own defeat during the campaign. With polls repeatedly showing him trailing Biden, he began to telegraph his intention to challenge the result, declaring that a Biden victory was not possible without cheating. Ain’t that crazy?
Even though Biden is the obvious winner, for the life of me, Trump continues to fire off tweets claiming, “I won the election.” He wants the world to believe that the election was stolen from him through wide spread fraud and cheating. OK, fraud and cheating committed by who? His own Republicans guys? This is flat-out malarkey.
Recently, four states —– Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia —– dropped the lawsuits filed by Trump acolytes and lawyers challenging Biden’s win. Also, lingering efforts by Trump’s lead lawyer Rudy Giuliani to overturn election results in these key states have all but collapsed as the president remained holed up in the White House stewing over his vanishing grip on power.
During a spectacularly wild and embarrassing press conference to shore up his disintegrating campaign to upend Biden’s triumph, a thick syrup of absurdity streamed down Giuliani’s face as he unleashed a torrent of lies and conspiracy theories to support his baseless claim of election fraud. The world watched with profound dismay as a man once held in high esteem reduced himself to a clown in a slapstick. In short, Giuliani made utter fool of himself. In court you win with evidence. To be sure, these unfounded and nonsensical lawsuits were essentially Hail Mary efforts backed by a rich gallimaufry of pittance, lies, hyperboles and just pure BS. Why Trump is still struggling to come to grips with his loss more than two weeks after the election befuddles many, even some in his party.
On the night of the election, as it appeared Biden was coasting to victory, a petered-out Trump emerged to offer his take on what was happening, and proceeded to reel off a grab bag of what he believed was vast fraud, conspiracy and election shenanigans orchestrated again him, declaring, “We won the election.” Since then, behind the scene, his fury has deepened and has continued to prod members of his party to back his unhinged project of overturning the will of the people.
Meanwhile, Michigan, which in recent days became the beehive of the Trump’s delusional effort to hang on to power, certified the state’s election in favor of Biden. No surprises there though. Still, it remains to be seen how all of this is going to play out. A cloud of uncertainly continues to blanket the country even as President-Elect Biden quickens the pace of picking members of his cabinet and White House staff. Weeks ago, he delivered a speech to reassure a bewildered nation that a transfer of power is still going to occur, even as most GOP senators and Congressmen scared to death of Trump maintain a mute posture in the face of his bizarre decisions including the abrupt firing of the Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.
It is important to remember that the concession of the outgoing president is not constitutionally required for the incoming president to assume office. So whether Trump concedes or not is really inconsequential. Sure it would be nice, but not necessary.
This much folks can happily take to the bank. Come January 20, 2021, Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. will become the 46th President of the United States. It is that simple.
I am sure the whole world is patiently looking forward to that day.
