Remove just one state, Mexifornia, and that popular vote victory disappears!
It also vaporizes the similarly stupid statement that there were more D votes than R votes in Senate races this time. A CA Senate race D vs D — ten million D votes.
http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/california-senate
Actually, just remove Los Angeles County, New York County, Bronx County, and DC, and you subtract 2,262,680 votes from the difference. Add Cook County, the popular vote margin is -3,351,049.
This method subtracts both candidates' votes, so, but for five lousy counties, Trump would have won the popular vote by >1 million votes.
This illustrates, once again, the wisdom of the electoral college concept, which concept would be even better if the electors were assigned by counties or Congressional districts.