No. Its not meant to rob Trump, its meant to rob any "outsider" candidate of which the Establishment disapproves. Nor is this about getting to 1237 or about whining because someone was outsmarted...its about a process designed to disenfranchise the actual votes cast by actual GOP voters. Or, in some cases, to completely bypass such a vote (and the will of the GOP voters entirely) by having a Byzantine process in which insiders caucus to have THEIR will imposed on GOP voters.
Rules can be just or unjust. Good Nazis followed the rules, for example. So hiding behind "the rules" as if simply being a rule made them just...is little more than a dodge for doing the wrong thing. Someone in this thread was foolish enough to equate such anti-voter rules with the US Constitution...unreal and sad for a host of reasons, not least because it denotes a horrific misunderstanding of what the Constitution is and stands for. Suffice it to say that the Constitution's rules are innately just, while this process is innately unjust...it is, in fact, a manifestation of the corruption that occurs when an entrenched establishment seeks to impose its will over that of the people (the people in this specific case being GOP voters).
What's pathetic, is that there are people here who applaud the disenfranchisement of fellow Republicans and citizens...even admire the crafty way in which the establishment, also known as Ted Cruz, conspires to take representation from them. For shame.
And FYI, nobody thinks caucus goers are Martians. In fact, what they ARE is not an issue at all...they are almost certainly good people. What they are NOT is representative of the will of the greater mass of GOP voters. And that is what matters.
That's all nice, but it's all bullshit. Trump gave away the game when he said, as an aside, "I only complain about those states we didn't win."
This is a campaign ruse, meant to rile up his emotional supporters, who all think they're being screwed by somebody. He's playing you for the mark you are. He didn't even play in Wyoming and Wyoming was EXACTLY like Colorado in the way it chooses delegates. And he's not bitching (yet) about Wyoming.
So this is just campaign kerfuffle. Trump is trying to convince you he's standing on principle.
The sonofabitch has never stood on principle in his life. Don't be a sucker.