One WOULD think those things, and one would be correct in one's thinking. The problem is that after the election, certain people were not happy with the results and have, since then, done everything they could think of to change the result.
Perhaps if their party had taken the election (and their opponent) seriously, and put up serious canditates for President AND vice president, the result would have been different. But they thought it all a joke and a beauty contest, and they got what they got.
And the guy in the White House is, most certainly the smartest of the whole bunch who ran in that election, and I, for one, am happy that the smartest candidate won.