Sinister, slouched sideways at the podium, voice gravelly with conspiracy, decaying in his own corruption, the clock running down to a humiliating final implosion in a bubbling vat of social media narcissism trying to double as a presidency, and a legacy of bombing schoolgirls, jailing mothers and whining, whining, whining, Donald J. Trump tonight tried to inflate his old, ragged bike tire of rigged elections in a last gasp, Little Lord Fauntleroy at eighty up-date, ahead of a midterm election where he expects to suffer - bombshell coming up - heavy losses.

His grotesque, gold spray-paint game show presidency run amok, mired in abysmal job approval ratings, unable to get out of war in Iran he started, presiding over a vulgar demolition of the White House, the scrapping of habeas corpus, detention center militarization of America, an algae-crammed reflecting pool, Nebuchadnezzar-sized private wealth acquisition, a craven shift of economic power to the billionaire class, court decision walk-backs of his attempts to plaster his name on the Kennedy Center, and key battleground allies like U.S. Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-7) tailspun, Trump tried to make a case ahead of the upcoming elections for compromised upcoming election results.

The crux of his remarks drilled his insistent unproven claims that he won the 2020 presidential election, mail-in ballots are corrupt, and other long-debunked theories. Keep in mind, that Trump's judicial nominees uniformly frighteningly refuse to answer a simple question, namely: "Who won the 2020 presidential election?" Obsessed with President Joe Biden, who defeated Trump four years ago, prompting Trump to desperately try to overturn the results by trying to bully the Georgia Secretary of State, fanning the flames of a Jan. 6th, 2021 riot at the Capitol, and refusing to gracefully transfer power, "Our country was dead," the President croaked tonight, in reference to the Biden years, his breathing disturbingly labored.

The president went on to denounce "shocking vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure... levels never thought possible. ..hacking foreign interference." He claimed "this information has for many years been hidden from you. The documents we will release have been gathered by the White House transparency task force." He claimed his administration intends to "confront vulnerabilities."

On his favorite debunked subject:

"Over a period of years during the 2020 election cycle, ... the nightmare members of the deep state - a very, very famous group of people, worked to downplay the extent of China's election meddling. ...The reason they wanted me to lose was I was wise to them."

The speech tonight was another Trump temper tantrum in reaction to his inability to federalize elections and summon the votes for his SAVE Act, in the words of the National Urban League, "an extremist effort to dismantle democracy and disenfranchise millions of American citizens." 

"Congress must pass the SAVE America Act," Trump said. "The only reason you wouldn't want to do it is you want to cheat."

And the only reason you would do it is to prevent the landslide congressional losses headed Trump's way, just as the only reason Trump would make his speech tonight as to lay the groundwork for his intensified militarization and gulagization of the country, ostensibly to protect innocent Americans from their own elections.

National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial obviously has a different take from the President.

“Not satisfied with giving up Congress’s power to be a check on the President, House Republicans are now attempting to undermine the foundation of our democracy, our fundamental right to vote,” he said in a statement. “Under the guise of combatting so called voter fraud—a problem that does not exist —the SAVE Act will make it harder for millions of American citizens to vote.”

The SAVE Act requires all voters to show documentary proof of citizenship, like a birth certificate or passport, any time they register to vote or make changes to their voter registration. More than 21 million eligible voters do not have these documents readily available, including two-thirds of Black Americans who do not have a valid passport and 69 million women and 4 million men who do not have birth certificates that match their name.

Trump's own party refuses to pass his voter suppression bill.

Retiring Republican Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) said the Act would only serve to "cast doubt on the integrity of the election results while also tying up Congress’s precious few remaining legislative days to get things done before the elections," according to The Hill. 

“Let’s stop the charade. Let’s stop the distraction,” Tillis said on the floor of the Senate this morning. “Let’s get the government funded, let’s use reconciliation if we need to, but let’s not clog it up with another piece of policy airdropped by a member of this Senate or the White House that will undermine this bill, undermine what we need to get done before the election.

“If I see a reconciliation bill come from the House with another failed attempt to confuse this election, I will use every device I have available to slow down the wheels of government until people cop a clue and do the math,” Tillis added.

Tillis has suggested before that he’ll block efforts to pass that bill if given the chance. But his speech Wednesday comes as the House debates a party-line package that includes some provisions of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act, an election security bill that Trump wants Congress to pass before anything else. Versions of the bill have already failed to pass the Senate multiple times.