Trump didn ' t say anything about it . You said something about it . Something like 60 % of the population of the country live in four areas . That would give those areas tremendous power if popular vote was what determined who is president . As it should be , because that ' s where the fucking people actually fucking live . The EC is fundamentally antidemocratic . Besides , the problem you describe already exists , only inverted . Four inbred backwater shitholes chose the president . My Oregon vote didn ' t count . This is not acceptable . I ' ll actually explain you why popular vote is not a good measure in this context either . Because of the winner takes it all system in all states except two , there ' s very little incentive for a Republican to vote in California as an example because it ' s always overwhelmingly blue . Considering the population of California , there are a lot of Republicans there who did just not bother voting because , after all , there ' s no chance for them to flip it . This argument is nonsensical . With a flat popular vote , there is nothing to flip , because people choose the president rather than states . You ' re talking about disenfranchising two million voters , but I ' d ask you to open a map with the results , look at how much red there is and ask yourself What part of disenfranchising all those red states I seem to not understand ? . Irrelevant . States aren ' t people . This country should be of the people .