Has Donald Trump reached peak excuse-making after his Iowa loss? It sure seems that way, but I wouldn’t want to underestimate Trump’s powers of convincing himself his losses are really wins. “It wasn’t a loss, I came in second,” Trump said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “And I only came in second because of the fact that Cruz took a lot of votes away from Carson that should not have been taken away.” “But my second-place finish, which was substantially second place – I mean, [Sen.