Exclusive | Trump believes 2020 election loss was providential so his second term fell on Americas 250th birthday, Monica Crowley tells Pod Force One
President Trump now sees his 2020 election loss as a “providential” occurrence that put him in office to preside over the celebration of America’s 250th birthday, US Chief of Protocol Monica Crowley told the Post’s Miranda Devine on “Pod Force One.”“Now [Trump] says, ‘You know what? 2020 had to happen that way.It was providential,’ Crowley told Devine in the latest episode of the podcast out Wednesday.
“It was because now he’s back, and he will preside over these incredible events.”The chief of protocol added that “[Trump] figured, well, after 2020’s election, he wasn’t going to be in office to see those events,” which include primarily the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence’s signing, along with the FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Olympics.Every week, Post columnist Miranda Devine sits down for exclusive and candid conversations with the most influential disruptors in Washington.Subscribe here!“America 250 is the one that is upon us now,” Crowley said.
“We are going to have a year-long celebration of America.”As recently as May, Trump was still calling his 2020 election loss “RIGGED” and “[t]he biggest crime of all,” though federal judges heard evidence in dozens of court cases without ruling any widespread fraud had occurred enough to hand the victory to Joe Biden.Allegations of fraud in the 2020 contest were also rejected by Trump officials, including former FBI Director Christopher Wray and former Attorney General Bill Barr.The 45th and 47th president has at times acknowledged his defeat, telling the podcaster Lex Fridman in September 2024 that he “lost by a whisker” to his Democratic opponent four years prior.Biden carried all the swing states except for North Carolina in 2020, whereas Trump trounced Vice President Kamala Harris in all seven battleground states in 2024.Some clergy members — including an Episcopalian bishop who took a swipe at Trump as he took office — have referred to him...