So, apparently in a video that’s resurfaced recently, Donald Trump admitted during a Zoom meeting last summer that he lost the election to Joe Biden. Trump was speaking last July to a group of Princeton University historians when he appeared to admit losing the election to Biden.

Although he didn’t miss the chance to repeat his accusations that the election was “stolen.”

At one point he talked about South Korean President Moon Jae-in, Chinese Premier Xi Jinping, and Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi and said: “By not winning the election, he was the happiest man — I would say, in order, China was — no, Iran was the happiest.”

“He was going to pay $5Bn, $6Bn a year,” Trump said. “But when I didn’t win the election, he had to be the happiest — I would rate, probably South Korea third or fourth happiest.”

Trump was likely referring to his attempts to pressure Seoul into spending more on its military.

On Sunday, The Atlantic reported the ex-president impersonated Moon during the interview while admitting (at least twice) that he lost the interview.

Seems like Trump was doing a little multitasking here — first by being the racist a**hole we always knew he was, and by beating a dead horse (he excels at that) by saying once again that the election was “rigged.” He did that by way of speaking about the now-defunct NORD Stream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany:

“So we had a deal, would have happened, all set, and then when the election was rigged and lost, what happened is that the deal went away,” he said.

The interview was carried out by Princeton University professor Julian E. Zelizer, who characterized the exchange with Trump as an attempt “to influence the narratives being written about him.” Zelizer is the author of the upcoming book, The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment.

Of course, even before he lost Trump has been going on and on about Democrats “rigging” the vote and even stooped so low as to try to pressure Vice President Mike Pence into overturning the election during a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021. An angry mob of Trump supporters, fired up by his claims of the “stolen” election overran the Capitol building, with tragic results. This led Trump to become the first president to be impeached twice by the House of Representatives.

Surely this ranks as one of the most shameful periods in American history when a large mob of dangerously gullible Trump supporters tried to subvert democracy, especially when then-attorney general Bill Barr, confirmed there was no evidence of election tampering and a fusillade of Trump-supporting lawyers filed lawsuits that also attempted to overturn the election, only to lose, one right after another.

Zelizer’s book should be very insightful. I can’t help but think if these historians are insightful and can see both sides of a story, they won’t likely shed a favorable light on Trump’s presidency.

I’ll be shocked if they do.