(CNN) Donald Trump is not someone who accepts losing. Whether in his decades in the business world or his second career as a politician -- and President -- his career is marked with a refusal to acknowledge when he has come up short.

He appeared triumphant after declaring bankruptcy. He touted his victory after a Republican Congress failed to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act. He said, without evidence, he would have won the 2016 popular vote if 3 to 5 million illegal votes had not been cast. And on and on it goes.

In Trump's world, he can't lose because, well, Trumps never lose. (It reminds me of the scene in the remarkable HBO miniseries "Chernobyl" where one of the leaders of the clean-up effort is told by the higher-ups in the Russian government that a global nuclear disaster simply cannot happen there.)

So true. So, so true.

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