Trump Can't Decide if He Won or Lost 2020 Election

Based on his contradicting statements, it seems former President Donald Trump can't make up his mind as to whether or not he won or lost the 2020 presidential election.

Trump has repeatedly made baseless claims alleging that the election was "rigged" and that he should have won with the 72 million ballots cast for him and running mate Mike Pence.

The belief that the election was stolen from Trump became the grounds on which a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021 in an effort to block Congress from certifying the electoral college votes, which would go on to cement President Joe Biden's victory with 306 votes to Trump's 232.

Although Trump has tried to distance himself from the rioters, he has continued to assert that he won the 2020 election. But the former president has also admitted defeat in a number of public comments.

Most recently, in an interview published by The Atlantic on Monday, Trump discussed his relationship with the president of South Korea, saying at one point, "when I didn't win the election, he had to be the happiest."

He also acknowledged his loss momentarily during a December 2021 interview with The Victory Channel's FlashPoint, when he discussed the construction of the border wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

"We started building and we built almost 500 miles of wall. Certain sections we couldn't get rights to and now we have rights. And had we won the election, it would almost be—it would be completed by now," Trump said.

Back in July 2021, Trump told Fox News' Sean Hannity that the number of votes he received should have been more than enough to guarantee a second term, but noted that "we didn't win."

"Shockingly, we were supposed to win easily at 64 million votes, and we got 75 million votes, and we didn't win," Trump said.

"But let's see what happens on that," he added, referencing the lawsuits his team had filed challenging the results of the election.

At least 63 of the suits contesting Biden's win have been unsuccessful.

In a December 2021 statement, Trump tripped over his grammar, using a double negative and suggesting a break from his previous message when he said, "Anybody that doesn't think there wasn't massive Election Fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election is either very stupid, or very corrupt!"

Despite Trump's comments that suggest he has conceded the election that took place a year and a half ago, the former president has continued to allege that he won over Biden.

Just over the weekend, Trump told a crowd at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida: "There's a great anger at what took place and because of a rigged election."