Ex-Obama Official: ‘God Save Us’ If N. Korea Mentions Trump’s Popular Vote Loss
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A former Obama administration official is hoping that one topic North Korea avoids in its war of words with President Trump is his loss to Hillary Clinton in the popular vote count.
A former Obama administration official is hoping that one topic North Korea avoids in its war of words with President Trump is his loss to Hillary Clinton in the popular vote count, reports The Hill.
“God save us if Kim Jong Un makes a comment about Hillary's popular vote victory,” Ben Rhodes, who used to be a foreign policy adviser and speechwriter for former President Obama, tweeted Friday.
His message was in response to a tweet Trump had released a couple hours before which read, “Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!”
While Rhodes’ comment points out the tensions that have ratcheted up between the two leaders, it also alludes to Trump’s regular references to the 2016 election outcome.
“[Trump] continues to have a bizarre, never-ending obsession with how many electoral votes he received,” Axios noted in April.
He won the presidential race by 70 electoral votes even though Clinton tallied nearly three million more ballots in popular vote than Trump.
And in May, a New York Times report stated, in part, that he “keeps a stack of color-coded maps of the United States representing the results of the 2016 election…In conversations, the president dwells on the map and its import, reminding visitors about how wrong the polls were and inflating the scope of his victory.”
Trump spoke about the election outcome again at a rally in Alabama Friday.
“You know why I won? Because the Electoral College is a very special thing," Trump told the crowd. "I decided very, I think, intelligently, to campaign in the states that you have to win for the Electoral College victory that you need.”
“If Hillary runs again in four years, which I hope she does, we’re gonna teach her [that]," he later said.
Clinton, meanwhile, has advocated for an end to the Electoral College, calling it “an anachronism that was designed for another time no longer works.”
A former Obama administration official is hoping that one topic North Korea avoids in its war of words with President Trump is his loss to Hillary Clinton in the popular vote count, reports The Hill.
“God save us if Kim Jong Un makes a comment about Hillary's popular vote victory,” Ben Rhodes, who used to be a foreign policy adviser and speechwriter for former President Obama, tweeted Friday.
His message was in response to a tweet Trump had released a couple hours before which read, “Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!”
While Rhodes’ comment points out the tensions that have ratcheted up between the two leaders, it also alludes to Trump’s regular references to the 2016 election outcome.
“[Trump] continues to have a bizarre, never-ending obsession with how many electoral votes he received,” Axios noted in April.
He won the presidential race by 70 electoral votes even though Clinton tallied nearly three million more ballots in popular vote than Trump.
And in May, a New York Times report stated, in part, that he “keeps a stack of color-coded maps of the United States representing the results of the 2016 election…In conversations, the president dwells on the map and its import, reminding visitors about how wrong the polls were and inflating the scope of his victory.”
Trump spoke about the election outcome again at a rally in Alabama Friday.
“You know why I won? Because the Electoral College is a very special thing," Trump told the crowd. "I decided very, I think, intelligently, to campaign in the states that you have to win for the Electoral College victory that you need.”
“If Hillary runs again in four years, which I hope she does, we’re gonna teach her [that]," he later said.
Clinton, meanwhile, has advocated for an end to the Electoral College, calling it “an anachronism that was designed for another time no longer works.”