Donald Trump doesn’t like losing, whether it’s in business or politics. And whether he wins or not, the only thing seemingly more important to him than actually winning, is the facade of being a winner. At a campaign rally in Indiana in 2018, he said “We love winners. Winners are winners.” This depicts so much of Trump’s unwavering spirit to win, no matter what!
According to a recent tweet of Trump:
“If the totally Corrupt Media was less corrupt, I would be up by 15 points in the polls based on our tremendous success with the economy, maybe Best Ever! If the Corrupt Media was actually fair, I would be up by 25 points. Nevertheless, despite the Fake News, we’re doing great!”
This has been a running theme with him becoming President: anything negative about him, according to him is “fake news” he went as far as telling people at one rally that what they see isn’t really what’s happening. In other words, are you going to believe your own eyes, or what I tell you to believe?
If there is any thread of consistency in Trump’s messaging to the Americans in the last three years, it is this—The media is corrupt, they didn’t want me to win and succeed, and they will try everything possible to ensure that outcome.
As a political psychologist, I can say that Trump has always been laying the ground to pass the blame to anyone beyond himself. Leading up to election day when he was still behind in the polls, he was sowing doubt among his followers with the notion that the “system is rigged against me folks.”
That theme is once again playing out as the new election cycle for 2020 kicks off, again telling Trump supporters — and anyone who will listen –that the “corrupt media” is trying to sabotage his efforts by lying about him.
if he loses in his 2020 re-election bid, no doubt the media will have been to blame, according to him. That he would have won easily without the mischievous plotting by the media.
A quick bit of researching videos about Donald Trump shows that he has already voiced this theme from policy decisions, comments, and actions he has taken. To be clear, there is no question that much of the coverage of Trump’s presidency has been negative. But that is more a result of Trump’s own words, twitchy Twitter finger, policy positions, and actions, than it is of a ‘corrupt media.’
Real winners lead, while the loser’s whine about who’s to blame.
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