Its true that Trump did not win the popular vote. But he did not try to either. If it were a popular vote that mattered there would have been rallies and ads in California and New York. And Trump would have won the popular vote. But as that was not required, Trump did not do it.
Trump spent his time out in states that mattered and Hillary spent her time in mansions of the rich and famous collecting money. And in the end, Trump is President Elect, and Hillary is not.
But if people are saying that Trump and Republicans are a minority party, they have only to look at the state legislatures (68 out of 99), governor-ships (34 out of 50),The US House of Representatives(239 out of 436), and US Senate (52 out of 100) to figure out where the electorate is. The country is republican. And they live and vote local.
Excellant point! If the game was to be played to win primarily the popular vote verses the electoral vote then presidential campaign strategies would be very different. Therefore it is a total red-herring to make anything at all of the popular vote. Trump beat 17 primary republican candidates and the democrat machine/media backed candidate. I believe if his focus was simply on the popular vote he could have easily employed a different campaign strategy and won that instead. The electoral college serves a very different constitutional purpose which is to level the playing field for the many smaller states verses the larger states. This has been well explained by many, but to think the popular vote in and of itself trumps the electoral vote the rules being what they are is naive.