Trump Is Lying To Me As I Write

Alan: As I write, I'm listening to Trump's "live" press conference whose ostensible purpose (apart from ADHD rambling) is to nominate a new Labor Secretary.

To quote Devious Donald: "I won by the largest electoral vote margin since Ronald Reagan."

Oh?

The man is a compulsive liar who may have lost the ability to distinguish between Truth and Falsehood - Reality and Unreality.

"There Are Two Ways Of Lying..." Denis De Rougemont And Donald Trump

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/donald-trump-and-denise-de-rougemont.html

Percent of electoral vote won

1.George Washington (1789)

George Washington (1792)

3.Franklin D. Roosevelt (1936)

4.James Monroe (1820)

5.Ronald Reagan (1984)

6.Richard Nixon (1972)

7.Thomas Jefferson (1804)

8.Abraham Lincoln (1864)

9.Ronald Reagan (1980)

10.Lyndon B. Johnson (1964)

11.Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932)

12.Dwight Eisenhower (1956)

13.Franklin Pierce (1852)

14.Franklin D. Roosevelt (1940)

15.James Monroe (1816)

16.Herbert Hoover (1928)

17.Dwight Eisenhower (1952)

18.Woodrow Wilson (1912)

19.Franklin D. Roosevelt (1944)

20.Ulysses Grant (1872)

21.William H. Harrison (1840)

22.George Bush (1988)

23.Warren G. Harding (1920)

24.Andrew Jackson (1832)

25.Ulysses Grant (1868)

26.Calvin Coolidge (1924)

27.Theodore Roosevelt (1904)

28.Bill Clinton (1996)

29.James Madison (1808)

30.Bill Clinton (1992)

31.Andrew Jackson (1828)

32.Barack Obama (2008)

33.William Taft (1908)

34.William McKinley (1900)

35.Grover Cleveland (1892)

36.James K. Polk (1844)

37.Barack Obama (2012)

38.William McKinley (1896)

39.Abraham Lincoln (1860)

40.James Madison (1812)

41.James Buchanan (1856)

42.Benjamin Harrison (1888)

43.James Garfield (1880)

44.Martin Van Buren (1836)

45.Harry Truman (1948)

46.Donald J. Trump (2016)

47.John F. Kennedy (1960)

48.Zachary Taylor (1848)

49.Richard Nixon (1968)

50.Jimmy Carter (1976)

51.Grover Cleveland (1884)

52.George W. Bush (2004)

53.Thomas Jefferson (1800)

54.Woodrow Wilson (1916)

55.John Adams (1796)

56.George W. Bush (2000)

57.Rutherford B. Hayes (1876)

58.John Quincy Adams (1824)*

100%

100%

98.5%

98.3%

97.6%

96.7%

92.0%

91.0%

90.9%

90.3%

88.9%

86.1%

85.8%

84.6%

84.3%

83.6%

83.2%

81.9%

81.4%

81.3%

79.6%

79.2%

76.1%

76.0%

72.8%

71.9%

70.6%

70.4%

69.7%

68.8%

68.2%

67.8%

66.5%

65.3%

62.4%

61.8%

61.7%

60.6%

59.4%

59.0%

58.8%

58.1%

58.0%

57.8%

57.1%

56.9%

56.4%

56.2%

55.9%

55.2%

54.6%

53.2%

52.9%

52.2%

51.4%

50.4%

50.1%

32.2%

Mr. Trump trails in the popular vote by over 2.5 million votes as states continue to report final results. His deficit gives him the third-worst vote margin among winning candidates since 1824.

Popular vote margin

1.Warren G. Harding (1920)

2.Calvin Coolidge (1924)

3.Franklin D. Roosevelt (1936)

4.Richard Nixon (1972)

5.Lyndon B. Johnson (1964)

6.Theodore Roosevelt (1904)

7.Ronald Reagan (1984)

8.Andrew Jackson (1832)

9.Franklin D. Roosevelt (1932)

10.Herbert Hoover (1928)

11.Dwight Eisenhower (1956)

12.Woodrow Wilson (1912)

13.Martin Van Buren (1836)

14.Andrew Jackson (1828)

15.James Buchanan (1856)

16.Ulysses Grant (1872)

17.Dwight Eisenhower (1952)

18.Abraham Lincoln (1860)

19.Abraham Lincoln (1864)

20.Franklin D. Roosevelt (1940)

21.Ronald Reagan (1980)

22.William Taft (1908)

23.Bill Clinton (1996)

24.George H.W. Bush (1988)

25.Franklin D. Roosevelt (1944)

26.Barack Obama (2008)

27.Franklin Pierce (1852)

28.William McKinley (1900)

29.William H. Harrison (1840)

30.Bill Clinton (1992)

31.Ulysses Grant (1868)

32.Zachary Taylor (1848)

33.Harry Truman (1948)

34.William McKinley (1896)

35.Barack Obama (2012)

36.Woodrow Wilson (1916)

37.Grover Cleveland (1892)

38.George W. Bush (2004)

39.Jimmy Carter (1976)

40.James K. Polk (1844)

41.Richard Nixon (1968)

42.Grover Cleveland (1884)

43.John F. Kennedy (1960)

44.James Garfield (1880)

45.George W. Bush (2000)

46.Benjamin Harrison (1888)

47.Donald J. Trump (2016)

48.Rutherford B. Hayes (1876)

49.John Quincy Adams (1824)*

+26.2%

+25.2%

+24.3%

+23.1%

+22.6%

+18.8%

+18.2%

+17.8%

+17.8%

+17.4%

+15.4%

+14.4%

+14.2%

+12.3%

+12.2%

+11.8%

+10.9%

+10.1%

+10.1%

+9.9%

+9.7%

+8.5%

+8.5%

+7.7%

+7.5%

+7.3%

+6.9%

+6.2%

+6.0%

+5.6%

+5.3%

+4.8%

+4.5%

+4.3%

+3.9%

+3.1%

+3.0%

+2.5%

+2.1%

+1.5%

+0.7%

+0.6%

+0.2%

+0.1%

-0.5%

-0.8%

-2.1%

-3.0%

-10.4%

Trump’s Electoral College Victory
Ranks 46th in 58 Elections

https://www.nytimes.com/.../elections/donald-trump-electoral-college-popular-vote.html