President Donald Trump has a tendency to reject facts that contradict his internal narratives. The latest fact he had to refuse was a Florida federal judge throwing out his lawsuit against the New York Times and giving his legal team the chance to refile the lawsuit in a less unprofessional manner. Trump, however, still insists that this is actually “winning” that we’re witnessing.
In his second term, Trump has spent a significant amount of his power on vindictive pursuits. The basis of his $15 billion lawsuit against the New York Times is that the paper wrote unfavorable stories about him, which he feels almost cost him the presidency — almost, because he obviously won anyway. So the president filed an 85-page lawsuit that a federal judge saw as largely irrelevant to the complaint he seeks to be reimbursed for, so his lawyers were ordered to refine their filing into 40 pages with a concise submission.
