on the other hand, he has been respectful of president obama. at the rallies he was having, the victory rallies, and anytime people would start booing or making noises about either president obama or the first lady, donald trump would jump in to defend them and say how cooperative they have been, how friendly they ve been. and giving them credit for their very best of intentions. all in all, donald trump is non-traditional. he is doing it his way. i think he is showing respect for both president obama and the presidency. i am sure you disagreed with much of secretary of state kerry s speech today about the israeli settlements. but let me ask you as a general point. is it fair to say that the continuing construction of settlements in the west bank is actually an impediment to a peaceful solution and a two-state solution? ultimately some of those settlements will have to be scaled back. but i think, despite what ben rhodes was saying, there was a
we won, you lost. grow the blank up. move on with your life. democrats have not figures out in politics when you lose, you don t get a second place trophy. you don t get a juice box or therapy dogging. > hillary clinton and her team spent $1.2 billion, lost an election they should have won. didn t see us coming and got a lot of the help frankly from people in the media still trying to fight the last war. this man is the brez. it is worth noting that trump himself hasn t gotten over it even though he won. instead he s been holding victory rallies in the states that voted for him where he spent much of his time relitigating the election. today after bl clinton said trump doesn t know much, the president-elect tweeted bill clinton started i called him after the election. wrong he called me. before adding bill clinton who doesn t know much. not him. and the fact this was no normal election and not because hillary clinton beat trump by just under
i think the whole concept is a little overrated. i do think that the circumstances of the election where hillary clinton won the popular vote by more than 3 million by the time we re done with this would call for some humility from a more normal candidate. but that s not really part of the trump brand and i don t think that s who he is. so these victory rallies don t really match what actually happened. but i don t know that like having a mandate or not having a mandate really matters. you know, that is an excellent point. because, with, you know, barack obama won decisively, particularly in his re-elect, by 5 million votes. he won two times. never, like, in barely. i mean, he won 360-something electoral votes. it was not even a question. and yet, republicans treated him as if he had lost the election and had been appointed by some outer borough judge in the bronx. they treated him like he had no right to even be in washington, let alone be president. so republicans didn t respect th
popular vote by more than 3 million by the time we re done with this would call for some humility from a more normal candidate. but that s not really part of the trump brand and i don t think that s who he is. so these victory rallies don t really match what actually happened. but i don t know that like having a mandate or not having a mandate really matters. you know, that is an excellent point. because, with, you know, barack obama won decisively, particularly in his re-elect, by 5 million votes. he won two times. never, like, in barely. i mean, he won 360-something electoral votes. it was not even a question. and yet, republicans treated him as if he had lost the election and had been appointed by some outer borough judge in the bronx. they treated him like he had no right to even be in washington, let alone be president. well, it s an interesting question, in part because democrats have different attitudes towards government than do republicans, right? so the republicans, you k
what kind of mandate does that deliver to it s definitely not a landslide, if you look at the percentage of the electoral votes he won, he s in the bottom quadrant, i think. he s in the bottom five. like, below martin van buren, i think i saw. but he won the election. so, like, this idea of a mandate, i kind of think mandates are overrated. he has a republican senate, a republican house to work with. like, he can do whatever he wants. and what like, what s going to stop? what would a mandate give him that he doesn t have now? i think the whole concept a little overrated. i do think that the circumstances of the election where hillary clinton won the popular vote by more than 3 million by the time we re done with this would call for some humility from a more normal candidate. but that s not really part of the trump brand and i don t think that s who he is. so these victory rallies don t really match what actually happened. but i don t know that like having a mandate or not hav