Allan Lichtman has returned to Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, roughly 24 hours after announcing he was “done” with the social media platform. The historian, best known for the ’13 Keys to the White House’ model he uses to predict U.S. election winners, had become a figure of much ridicule after he inaccurately predicted a Kamala Harris victory on November 25, becoming visibly distraught as he watched the results come in live.
“I am done with X. I will be deactivating my account soon. The good news is, I’ll be over on Bluesky!” he wrote, referring to an X alternative many leftists fled to in the wake of the U.S. election.
Now, after only one day, Lichtman’s post announcing this resignation has been deleted, and he has begun posting content again. As of the time of publication, he has posted nothing about his brief retirement from the platform—although his replies are full of people mocking him with facetious questions such as, “Back so soon, have you lost your keys?”
Mockery of Lichtman has reached fever pitch after an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, where he clashed with Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks show. “I will not sit here and stand for personal attacks, for blasphemy against me,” Lichtman raged after Uygur pointed out his predictions had proved “preposterously” wrong.
“Blasphemy against you? Who the hell are you? Are you Jesus Christ, you loser?” Uygur responded.
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