Donald Trump continues to throw a temper tantrum befitting an eight year-old girl by insisting he won last Monday's presidential debate against Democrat Hillary Clinton when most objective polls and analysts say he was clearly beaten by Clinton.
Ever the sore loser, the Republican Party candidate now claims the debate was rigged against him and that debate moderator Lester Holt, was biased against him despite praising Holt immediately after the debate for being fair to him.
Trump's latest outburst of delusion follows a rant against his aides and allies in the Republican Party that told media they believed Trump lost the debate. Media reports said an angry Trump blasted his aides and Republican surrogates for admitting to reporters he underperformed in debate last Sept. 26.
Trump told his team to stop badmouthing his debate performance immediately and was "not subtle" about it.
Trump was also upset his aides were telling him to change his debating tactics and to really prepare before his next debate with Clinton on Oct. 10. Trump's brain trust decided to let Trump be Trump to maintain his hold on his base consisting mostly of whites without a college education.
Reports said ex-head of Fox News Roger Ailes and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani headed Trump's debate prep team.
Trump also vented his spleen on Holt.
"During the debate the other night, I had to put up with the anchor and fight the anchor all the time on everything I said," Trump later said at a campaign rally in New Hampshire. "What a rigged deal. I tell you we're in such a rigged system. It is terrible. What's going on in this country is so sad."
Trump said on Fox News that Holt appeared "more than a little" biased against him. Later on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," Trump said Holt earned a "C" grade and that his opinion had changed after the debate.
"When I first did it, I thought he was fine, I wasn't thinking about it, but when I reviewed it and when I saw all of the commentary -- because a lot of people thought he was terrible -- and I looked at all of the commentary, I realized he was much, much tougher on me than he was on Hillary, it was like day and night," he said.
Trump also said his "faulty" microphone was an enemy, which he said might have intentionally been tampered with to detract from his performance
"I wonder if it was set up that way," he said. "It was terrible."