Donald Trump has been throwing a prolonged tantrum, as he struggles to accept that he is no longer running against President Joe Biden.

The former president and convicted felon has become increasingly distressed at the state of his campaign, according to a Washington Post report published Thursday.

As Vice President Kamala Harris has relaunched the Democratic Party’s campaign, Trump saw his fundraising edge dissipate under the shadow of her $310 million influx in July. At the same time, his campaign has struggled to find its footing in the new matchup, leaving some close to the campaign wondering how it was possible they were so ill prepared, according to the *Post. *

After flying so high at the Republican National Convention in July, it seems that Trump has had a hard time adjusting to the fact that his fight is not over.

“It’s unfair that I beat him and now I have to beat her too,” Trump told an ally in a phone call last weekend, according to the Post.

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    It’s really telling that trump thinks it’s some sort of competition sport that’s all about him winning. We’re deciding who to hire to do the job. It’s not the Olympics. It’s not about him or Kamala, it’s about us.

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      You are right. But he’ll never get that through his thick, narcissistic skull, because he’s been allowed to get away with anything for his entire life with basically no consequences. In the shitty little bubble he exists in, everything is a contest that he can exploit and cheat at. And everyone serves him while he does whatever the fuck he wants. The idea of him serving the American people is completely alien to him.

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        If you just make that substitution all the times he’s said “We’re going to be winning so much” it makes far more sense. “You’ll be tired of all the whining we’re going to do” is far more accurate

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    Trump is much more used to doing one major event a week. This week, as his running mate J.D. Vance hit the road, Trump stayed home in Florida to fundraise and do interviews. After months of campaigning, it’s unclear whether Trump has the stamina to carry his campaign to November.

    It’s ok Donnie - go take a nap and when you wake up in November it’ll all be over 😇

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      He’s insulting Kamala as being too scared to do interviews, when he’s too old and weak to run a real campaign.

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    We can all make fun of him but I think he is setting the stage to call the election unfair and unlawful when he eventually loses, be careful.

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        Not to say this isn’t true, but the 2024 count probably also includes his continued whining about the 2020 election. It’s all part of the same thing, but it’s blurrier than the other two metrics.

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          Notes: The Times’s analysis counted specific references to “election interference,” “rigging,” “stealing,” “cheating” and related terms, as well as references to voter fraud, in posts on Twitter (now X) and Truth Social; at campaign events; and in interviews in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 election cycles. The analysis most likely represents an undercount of the number of times the former president has baselessly sown doubt about election fairness or integrity. Some transcripts were provided by Roll Call Factba.se.

          https://archive.ph/Ihhs6

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            Um…ok? That really only supports what I said - there was no distinction between which election he was talking about.

            The Times has documented more than 500 campaign events, social media posts and interviews during the 2024 cycle in which Mr. Trump falsely accused Democrats or others of trying to “rig,” “cheat,” “steal” or otherwise “influence” the next election — or of having done so in 2020.

            In terms of pure numbers, that’s gonna inflate the stats.

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        He tapped an outside contractor to come up with the governance and policy plan. They basically delivered him a 900 page authoritarian how-to manual.

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      Cheating the vote obviously has legs, but whining that it’s unfair he has to run against someone he doesn’t want to isn’t going to hit the same. He is really losing his edge and getting slow-witted, and it really looks to me like maga is running out of gas, and I don’t think there is anyone out there who can replace Trump to pour fuel on the fire.

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      Unless he somehow gets the whole US military to stage a coup for him, we’ll be just fine and get rid of a lot of dead weight in the process.

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      He’s no longer in the position to keep the military away for his insurrection. They will be there in force and any bullshit magats think they’re going to pull is going to be snuffed out quicker than he can inhale a bigmac.

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    Trump’s meltdown yesterday was entirely about how much he misses Biden and fears Kamala. It was pure joy to watch him flailing. i believe you can stick a fork in him. He’s done. We just witnessed a seismic shift.

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    Like Musk telling advertisers to fuckoff and then suing everyone that fucked off. They just want to abuse the system.

    It’s weird they think the gaslighting goes unnoticed.

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    “If the enemy does something unexpected, they owe you for the resources you wasted countering the wrong strategy” – Sun Tzu, The Art of Being an Upwards Failing Fuckup

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    It’s like nobody ever sat this overgrown toddler down and had the talk with him, because he’s always been an entitled little prick who thinks the rules don’t apply to him.

    Life isn’t fair, fucking deal with it you whining man child.

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      We care.

      We care its fucking hilarious, we care no one gives a shit about him, and we care his campaign was run just as badly as his attempts to both run a country and overthrow it.

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    To be fair, when has a president ever had to deal with an unexpected change of events?

    (/s to be safe)

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    He is a racist, rapist, with dementia and 34 felonies that caused an insurrection that got people killed. He needs to fuck off into the sun. He’s trash, always been trash, and now he’s getting his ass kicked by his worst fucking nightmare. A woman that is black. If hell exists, I really hope he has a really special spot there for all the suffering he’s caused.