Trump's rewriting his winning record.
If you took it from the mouth of babes, former President Donald Trump is undefeated as a politician in Iowa.
Hours before the Iowa caucuses, he stepped down a staircase of the Hotel Fort Des Moines and, for a moment, offered his prognostication: "We’ve won it twice, as you know; I think we’re going to have a tremendous night."
It's false. The 45th president, while the victor in the state back in 2020 — didn't take home the victory back in 2016.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) did.
Cruz, who was Trump's staunchest opponent, won the contest with 27.6% of the vote, narrowly squeaking out Trump's 24.3%. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) took home third with 23.1%.
Trump was curt after the results and moved on to the next ones.
“We love New Hampshire, we love South Carolina,” he said.
But then he tweeted soon after that the Caucus was snookered.
“Ted Cruz didn’t win Iowa, he illegally stole it. That is why all of the polls were so wrong any [sic] why he got more votes than anticipated. Bad!” Trump posted, and later deleted it.
"Needs a community note," said @Shannonsheeha18, asking for the X fact-checking process.
Trump did go on to take New Hampshire, South Carolina and Alabama to ultimately nab the GOP nomination and face off against former Secretary of State and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
The unsavory response to The Don's fact-challenged bravado drew jeers.
@BrianCrow14 mocked Trump's election conspiracies after he was defeated in 2016: "I remember. When Ted Cruz cheated. /Sarcasm".
"Oh you mean he lied, imagine that…" reads a tweet by @Skydive101.
"Trump flew to Iowa on Saturday, and in that time he’s done 1 rally, 1 virtual event and a pizza photo op," posted Peter Henlein. "Now on caucus day he didn’t leave his hotel for the first time until 2pm Iowa time…and he can barely descend a flight of stairs. He is too old."
