Only I can fix it · First term · № 30

Only I can fix it

'The only thing standing between the American Dream and total anarchy'

“I'm the only thing standing between the American Dream and total anarchy, madness, and chaos. And that's what it is. I'm representing you.”
Said
, Remarks to the Council for National Policy, Arlington, Virginia
Subject
anarchy and chaos
Topic
Justice & the courts
Era
First term

What happened

He lost the Nov. 3, 2020 election to Joe Biden, 306 electoral votes to 232 (81,268,773 to 74,216,728 in the popular vote). The rise in violent crime he warned of occurred on his own watch: according to FBI data compiled by FactCheck.org, murders in 2020 rose to their highest level since 1997, 4,157 more homicides than in 2016.

Sources

  1. Remarks by President Trump at the 2020 Council for National Policy Meeting White House (archived), Aug 21, 2020
  2. Trump: 'I'm the only thing standing between the American dream and total anarchy' The Washington Post, Aug 21, 2020
  3. 2020 Presidential Election statistics The American Presidency Project, Nov 3, 2020
  4. Trump's Final Numbers FactCheck.org, Oct 8, 2021