Trump spent Easter morning on Twitter publicly nursing his bruised ego. All in one breath, he referenced his “impossible” Electoral College win, and then grumbled that the “election is over!”
I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017
Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017
Trump was obviously incensed by the nationwide marches yesterday demanding the release of his tax returns. These are the same tax returns, by the way, that he promised to release on the campaign trail on numerous occasions. They are the same tax returns that can prove the President of the United States pays his fair share into our schools, our roads, our law enforcement, just like every other American does. They are the same tax returns that can assure the restless 65.8 million Americans who did not vote for him in the presidential election – three million more than the number who actually voted for Trump – that he has no conflicts of interest and is working in the best interest of the American people, not the Trump Organization.
In typical Trump fashion, he doesn’t stop there, further eroding his already decimated credibility by insinuating that the “small organized rallies yesterday” were “paid for.” Trump already has a shaky relationship with the truth, evidenced by his proclivity to make wildly unfounded claims. PolitiFact reviewed all of Trump’s statements, ultimately deciding that 70% of what he says is “mostly false, false, or pants on fire.”
When Trump erroneously claimed that Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, the United States government wasted valuable resources proving that – shocker – there is no evidence to support his claim. The icing on the cake, of course, was that James Comey, the Director of the FBI, also announced that day that the FBI was investigating the Trump campaign for possibly colluding with Russia to tip the election in Trump’s favor.
Since numbers are so important to our President, who is a full-grown man, it is important to note that the “small rallies yesterday” were attended by hundreds of thousands of people in over 150 cities across the United States. If those were small, I wonder what Trump would call his own inaugural crowd, which drew roughly one-third the amount of people that Obama’s inauguration drew.
Finally, Trump’s “impossible” Electoral College victory ranks 46th out of 58 elections. I’ll just leave it at that.
I would say the “election is over,” but Trump beat me to it. Instead, I’ll repeat what all of America said yesterday:
Release your tax returns.
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