This is delusional, even for Donald Trump

| 10:25 pm EDT May 1, 2020
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This week, an increasingly sheltered Donald Trump finally got a look at his own 2020 campaign internal poll numbers, and was apparently shocked to learn that he’s losing badly. Various reports have him cursing out his campaign advisers and threatening legal action against his campaign manager.

If a rational person belatedly learned that he was losing his reelection bid, he’d be doing everything he could to find a way to turn his numbers around – and if anything, he’d be angry at his staff for not having brought him the bad news sooner. But Donald Trump isn’t a rational person, he’s delusionally narcissistic.

Accordingly, Trump is doing what delusionally narcissistic people do in these situations: he’s spending his time trying to come up with excuses for why he’s going to lose that don’t involve him being at fault. Trump has decided that the election is going to rigged against him, screaming this on Twitter tonight: “Don’t allow RIGGED ELECTIONS!”

Okay, fine then. If Donald Trump wants to focus on this kind of self-deluding nonsense, instead of focusing on trying to do something to improve his bad poll numbers, then it’ll make our job easier. All we have to do is put in the hard work during this election cycle, while Trump tries to reassure himself with nonsense.