Donald Trump, With 46 Percent of the Vote, Is the First Sore Loser to Be Elected President

“THE LOSER ONE!” With this illiterate phrase, posted on Twitter on the night of the 2012 presidential election — at a moment when he mistakenly thought Barack Obama had received fewer votes than Mitt Romney but had won reelection through the Electoral College — Donald Trump revealed a few things that we need to recognize right now.

First, that this is a man who is easily confused or misled by the news he consumes from television or the internet. What Trump was referring to in his tweet, posted shortly after the polls closed on the West Coast, was the fact that Obama had been declared the winner by the news networks as soon as he was projected to secure a majority of the electoral votes by winning Ohio.

From The Intercept read it HERE