President-elect Donald Trump has often marked national holidays by attacking his political rivals and airing his grievances against them on social media. This Thanksgiving, on the eve of his return to the White House, Trump again criticized Democrats, accusing them of trying to “destroy” the country while touting his “landslide victory.”
“Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, including the radical left lunatics who worked so hard to destroy our country, but who have failed miserably and will always fail, because their ideas and policies are so hopelessly bad that the great people of our country simply gave a landslide victory to those who want to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump wrote this in a message on Truth Social Thursday. “Don’t worry, soon our country will be respected, productive, fair, and strong, and you will be proud to be an American more than ever before!”
Vice President-elect JD Vance followed suit, posting a bizarre image on X of him and Trump serving up the 2024 election map at a dinner table. Vance’s post, which superimposes Trump’s head on the patriarch’s body and Vance’s on the housewife’s body in Norman Rockwell’s painting “Freedom From Want,” was widely mocked on social media.
Trump has claimed that his victory in the 2024 election was “an unprecedented and powerful mandate.” And while it’s true that, unlike in 2016 and 2020, Trump won the popular vote this election, he did so by one of the narrowest margins since the 19th century, as The New York Times noted. Yet he is waving his claim of a “mandate” as justification for making controversial choices for his Cabinet, testing the willingness of Senate Republicans to challenge their party leader.
This article was originally published on MSNBC.com
