President-elect Donald Trump told a Wisconsin crowd that he 'really assumed' that he'd lost the election, due to 'phony' exit polls.

Trump spent the last 30 minutes of his West Allis appearance on Tuesday rehashing that storied night, when he shocked the world by winning the White House over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.

'Should I go over that evening just once quickly?' Trump asked his crowd of supporters, gathered for one of the president-elect's 'thank you' tour stops.

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President-elect Donald Trump paid a visit to West Allis, Wisconsin, last night and spent 30 minutes talking about his Election Night victory with the crowd

Storytime was prompted by Trump, once again, taking on the media, with his crowd chanting 'CNN Sucks!'

Trump then inserted that journalists were 'devastated' by his Election Night victory.

'So it began with phony exit polls,' Trump told the crowd. 'And I got a call from my daughter at around 5 o'clock and she was called by people in their business. And her husband, Jared, great guy, he was called.'

'Then they called me and they said, "I'm sorry dad, it looks really bad. Looks really really bad." I said, "What's the problem?"' Trump continued.

'So I sort of thought I lost, and I was OK with that. I wouldn't say great. In fact, I called my vice president and I said, it's not looking good. Right Mike?' Trump recalled, hollering to Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who attended Tuesday night's rally and was standing off stage.

Trump suggested that those conducting the exit polls were asking questions like 'Donald Trump is a bad person – do you agree or not?'

Donald Trump told Wisconsin supporters that his daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner gave his bad news early on Election Night

And thus those polls contained a lot of 'phony stuff.'

'So I got the call and they said, "Looks bad, looks really bad,"' Trump recalled.

'They actually thought we might lose, strongly,' he added.

The businessman said the exit poll results didn't make sense to him because of the large crowds he was getting when traveling state to state.

'Does anybody remember my opponent?' he then said, to which the crowd replied with a chorus of 'lock her ups.'

'Governor these people are brutal,' Trump said, calling to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who was also on hand. 'Now I know why it's always a bloodbath for you guys.'

House Speaker Paul Ryan, a congressman from the state, was also in attendance.

Getting back to the story, Trump reminded the crowd how he went to Michigan, which looked to solidly be in the Hillary Clinton column, at the last hour.

Showing up there after midnight on Election Day eve.

Donald Trump, visiting Wisconsin on Tuesday, talked about his Election Night victory and gave shout-outs to Gov. Scott Walker and House Speaker Paul Ryan

'We went to Michigan with no notice,' Trump said. 'With like a tweet,' he continued, boasting he got a crowd of 31,000 people to show up.

The president-elect said he planned all those last-minute rallies because, 'If you put out every single ounce of energy in your blood you feel like, OK, there's nothing more you can do.'

For election night, Trump booked a ballroom at a Midtown Manhattan Hilton property, while Clinton had rented out a convention hall.

'If we're going to lose,' Trump said was his thinking. 'I don't want a big ballroom.'

He suggested that if he had lost he would have briefly thanked his supporters and said, 'good night everybody.'

'I'm out of there,' he laughed.

The president-elect suggested that he knew Clinton's campaign was in trouble when they cancelled the planned fireworks display for election night.

'When you lose you don't set off fireworks,' Trump told the crowd.

'I wanted to be a wise guy,' he also offered. 'I offered them 5 cents on a $1 for the fireworks.'

Donald Trump, photographed returning to LaGuardia Airport, told Wisconsin voters all about his Election Night victory at a rally in the state

Getting to the part of the story when the polls closed, Trump started touring his crowd around the states.

He reminded them of his big victory in Ohio and then in Iowa, how the Florida panhandle helped him win the state there.

'They're like in a state of absolute, like they're getting sick,' he said of reporters, forced to call North Carolina for the Republican hopeful.

And then speaking of Pennsylvania, he called the Keystone State, 'the bride that got away,' mentioning how Republicans had tried to put the formerly blue state back in their column for years.

Trump pointed to Utah, where he not only had to face Clinton, but a third-party challenge from Evan McMullin.

'My wife looked at him and said, "You're not going to lose to him,"' Trump divulged to laughs.

Trump won Utah, and Georgia and suggested there was a 'slaughter' in Texas, as he won the Lone Star state by 9 points.

Mitt Romney beat President Obama in Texas by 16 points in 2012.

'And all of the sudden, Donald Trump had won the state of Wisconsin,' Trump said to resounding cheers. 'Donald Trump has won the state of Pennsylvania,' he added.

'That map was so beautiful looking,' Trump recalled.

He touted the Electoral College, calling it 'genius,' as Trump lost the popular vote to his Democratic rival Clinton.

'And I'll never forget the guy who was saying, for months, there is no path to 270 for Donald Trump,' the president-elect said. 'But there was a path to 306.'

'So we ended up winning,' he said, telling the crowd that he would never forget when they turned Wisconsin red.

'There is no path for Hillary Clinton to become president,' Trump remembered what broadcasters said. 'Donald Trump is your next president of the United States.'

He then gave credit to the crowd.

'Because of you,' he noted. 'So I want to thank, I want to thank the people of Wisconsin.'