No one has ever gone up to TFG and just told him he lost the election, author Michael Wolff says in

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The 600-Word Interview

It seems as if your theory of Trump is that he's a not-bright insane person with a gift for reading a crowd.

Yes. He's like many actors I have known in my time: not too bright in their own particular reality, with extraordinary gifts for getting on the wavelength of their audience.

Does he know that he lost the election fair and square?

He does not know. Now, whether he has managed to successfully convince himself or whether from the get-go he was so focused on hearing what he wanted to hear, he is absolutely certain. Absolutely certain that he won the election and that if he did not win it, it could only be that it was stolen from him. And that everybody else also sees it that way. So this is delusional, which is the word I use fairly often in the book.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-one-ever-gone-trump-173902905.html

[jaysunb]

1. Trump thought Putin had his back and even he knew the

Majority of people hated him Vlad would find a way to overcome it.
That's what he can't or won't let himself believe.

[Hoyt]

2. He knows, but he doesn't gain anything with rube followers by admitting it.

[Merlot]

3. If he has this so-called " gift of reading an audience" he knows they want to hear he won

They all love victimhood.

[Kaleva]

4. By telling them what they want to hear, TFG can continue to milk that cash cow

[underpants]

7. Remember that he disappeared for over a week after the election

I agree with you. He knows. Others started the whole “it was fixed” thing and he couldn’t pass up on the continued praise and money he could make off it.

[Haggard Celine]

5. He's convinced himself that he can't lose,

that even when it looks like he does lose, it's really a win. What reality is to Trump is sort of a meaningless question, because reality as most people see it means nothing to him. Reality changes for him minute by minute, and the past changes along with it to suit his desires. He's one fucked-up dude, but he has a handle on what about 30% of Americans are thinking and their wishes for the future. They're fucked up people, too, living on a diet of sugar and trash television. The best hope for all of us might be that Covid will wipe a lot of them out and give the rest of them a dose of reality, the reality that the rest of us experience.

[Bucky]

6. People inclined to state objective facts do not get an audience with Lord Donald

It sounds corrupt to you, but it's probably saving both him from a heart attack and any would-be truth teller from a beheading