'All about winning': Trump's telling parody

“It doesn't matter. We won.”

Donald Trump bared his defining victory-at-all-costs philosophy during his CNN ’60 Minutes’ interview that centred on his snearing parody of Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser.

Journalist Lesley Stahl grilled Trump about how during a now infamous rally in Mississippi he mockingly imitated Christine Blasey Ford who accused newly appointed US Supreme Court justice Kavanaugh of sexual assault.

Trump sought to demolish her credibility  – which took place after Ms Ford’s testimony before a critical Senate hearing. 

During the Sunday interview, the US president maintained he had treated Ford with respect.

"I was just saying she didn’t seem to know anything and she tried to destroy the life of a man who has been extraordinary," he said.

But he revealed how critical his words proved for Kavanaugh’s nomination.

"Had I not made that speech, we would not have won."

Stahl pointed out that Trump’s mockery implied Ford had been lying.

But he brushed off her question with 14 words that encapsulated his defining philosophy in politics and business.

“I'm not gonna get into it because we won. It doesn't matter. We won.”

Trump cannot hide that being the winner is all that matters to him.

During his US presidential campaign in 2016, he told supporters in New York the entire country would win with him in the White House.

“We're going to start winning again. We're going to win so much. We're going to win at every level. We are going to win economically.

“We are going to win with the economy. We're going to win with the military. We're going to win with health care and our veterans. We're going to win with every single fact.”

No doubt istappealed to the aspirations of many American voters: you vote for a winner and you’ll share in the spoils.

But the case of Christine Blasey Ford, is more Machiavellian – the ends justify the means.

Trump has decided that whatever he said about Ford was correct because Kavanaugh is now a member of the US Supreme Court.

Tellingly, he only sought to demolish her standing after initially describing her as a “very credible witness”.

But as the Kavanaugh nomination became embroiled in partisan politics, he stepped up his attacks on her claims, culminating in the Mississippi rally.