With Donald Trump coming in behind Hillary Clinton by an 11-point margin in not one but two major national polls this week, the blaming season is upon us and the recriminations have already begun. And with Trump increasingly seeing the writing on the wall, the excuse-making has begun in earnest.

In July, I wrote that I expected Trump to go on a Nov. 9th tweetstorm blaming “the Establishment” for his loss. Turns out my error was simply that I missed the date by a month.