The Democratic Party achieved a significant victory in the 2024 midterms, winning control of the House and securing a strong majority in the Senate, including unexpected wins in several previously red states. This shift marks a major political realignment, reflecting public fatigue with Donald Trump’s administration, which is associated with rising gas prices, the Iran war, and the Epstein file cover-up. In response, Trump has launched a barrage of online posts and a Fox News interview where he claims surprise at the results, attributes losses to external forces like Fox News and anti-MAGA voter sentiment, and deflects responsibility by asserting he wasn’t on the ballot. He attacks Republican candidates who lost, blames media for shaping voter opinion, and downplays the impact of his policies, despite clear evidence of public dissatisfaction. His rhetoric reveals a pattern of denial and finger-pointing, contrasting sharply with the tangible democratic momentum shown by the election results. The win underscores voter demand for change, especially in response to economic strain and political corruption. Trump’s reaction reflects a desperate attempt to maintain influence, but the facts show a clear shift in public support. The next two years will be politically turbulent as Democrats consolidate power and push legislative agendas, while Trump continues to resist accountability.
Donald Trump is having a full blown meltdown online and during a Fox News interview right now as I'm filming this video after Democrats shocked the nation. We won the midterms. We won the House of Representatives. We won the Senate. We won governors races, legislative races. We won across the United States, including in states that nobody really thought we were going to win in and we did anyway. And Donald Trump is not happy about it. So I want to break this down super quickly for you, show you what Trump is posting on social media, show you what he's saying in this Fox News interview. He just did very late at night and we'll get into all of that and more. Please make sure to subscribe down below. The next two years are going to be crazy until the 2028 election. I want to continue to build the community we have here because it's so great. And I appreciate every single one of you and thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your support and doing your parts in preserving and saving this democracy like we did tonight. All right. Let's get into it. I don't want to take too much of your time. First of all, can we just talk about what happened? I mean, the Democrats are projected to win the House of Representatives. We've already won the House of Representatives. But we might have like a 40 seat majority, a 50 seat majority, which I don't really think many people expected were already up to 220 at the time of me filming this. We flipped 24 seats. We only had to flip like two or three to take the majority. This is some crazy stuff that we're seeing. I think maybe even more crazy is the Senate. Now actually, this map is slightly outdated. Maine has been called for Troy Jackson. Susan Collins has conceded the race. So we have 53 seats at the time of me filming this. We're still waiting on Michigan. We're still waiting on Alaska. Mississippi is blue right now, although yet to be seen if that holds, that would be great. If it does, it would be very, very cool. We'll check back on that one. But I want to show you what Donald Trump has been posting on social media, what he's posting on social media right now. We're going to start here with the first post he made of the night addressing the results at 10.37 pm. He said, Trump said, "I wasn't on the ballot and if I was, we would have won in a landslide. Thank you for your attention to this matter." So Donald Trump is already pointing fingers at other people saying, "Hey, this is your fault, not my fault." Now in reality, Donald Trump was going around the country saying, "Hey, pretend I'm on the ballot." And so for him to just switch that up a day later is pretty funny. But he doesn't want to take responsibility. It is his responsibility, though. He brought us to war in Iran, nobody else did. The price is the expensive groceries, expensive gas, or because of him. The Epstein file cover-up is of him. The unprecedented corruption is because of him. And he wants to point the fingers at other people. Well, of course there's other people to blame, Republicans have enabled him, but Americans are fed up with him in the administration. You even have Trump supporters in the comments saying, "It's time to take some ownership, sir. Don't lift a leg on my face and tell me it's raining." That comment, which is the top comment under what Trump said, has 1,250 likes, which is quite a lot for, you know, a response to Donald Trump. He also decides to attack Republican candidates who lost. So at 11.35 pm, he said of Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, hadn't become a rhino in the last six months of his political life. He wouldn't have lost. He went back to his original formula and it wasn't pretty. So he's pointing fingers at Greg Abbott saying, "Because you went less MAGA, that's why you lost." Now, in reality, the people who were ultra MAGA lost badly, the people who embraced Donald Trump the most lost badly. Look at my Collins in Georgia. He was trumped through and through, and John also beat him like a drum. I mean, his race was called very, very early into the night, so maybe there should be some reflection there. Donald Trump then saying at 11.38 pm, "I'm going to become a political pundit, both good and bad on the reasons these candidates won and lost." A lot of finger pointing here from Donald Trump. He then decided to post this MAGA hat at 11.40 pm, but instead of saying MAGA, it says "vito." Because his plan for the next two years, where Democrats have this huge lead in the Senate, this huge lead in the House of Representatives, is to just veto anything the Democrats want to do, which is certainly interesting. He also said earlier in the day before the results really came in, "I have the ultimate power. It's called veto." That's what he told CBS News in an exclusive interview. So I guess he's referencing that interview with this post here. He then, at 11.52 pm, started blaming Fox News. Before going on air and doing an interview with them, he blamed them for his loss, which is interesting. He said, "Why does Fox News have build a blasio, the worst mayor in the history of New York City on air, ranting and raving like a lunatic?" He left the city in disgrace, and the damage he caused was incalculable. It's never been the same, and now he's telling us how to run America, Fox News, bears responsibility for these losses by constantly and consistently putting on the Democrat opposition, and worse, God bless America. So it's now Fox News' fault. It couldn't possibly be his fault. He's the president of the United States after all, couldn't be his fault. It has to be Fox News' fault. I would argue that some of it is Fox News' fault, but it really relies on Donald Trump. Then he went into the Fox News interview, one of the first questions they asked is like, "You know, what do you think? What do you think about what happened?" And he said, "I'm a bit surprised. I thought that everybody would do better. We had tremendous rallies." Let's get your reaction to this night, and what do you take away from it? Well, I'm a little bit surprised. I thought they'd do better. We had tremendous rallies. We had about 30 of them. There were thousands and thousands of people outside, let alone inside, could get in. And they'd watch from big, tell their big screens on the outside of the buildings, and they were excited. It was great excitement. I thought I'm a little bit surprised. I thought that I could transfer those people into candidates, but maybe in certain cases, you don't know. Don't forget, we had a lot of candidates that did win, also. But in certain cases, they didn't win. I felt badly about Darlene. I felt very badly. She's gone through her relationship with Lindsay. She was extraordinary, and it's just essentially morning and campaigning at the same time and then the top of it, this happens. But I'm a little surprised. He says he's surprised. I'm not surprised. Are you surprised? Think about how out of touch you have to be with reality to be surprised. So you started a war that nobody wants. Prices have gone up exponentially. Things are more expensive than ever. Diesel's record high. Gas prices are incredibly expensive. The Epstein files have been covered up. They're surprised, really, really. He then went on to say, you know, it's just a point in time. There was a mood in the air. I shouldn't feel guilty for all the losses. I didn't do it with my cabinet. It was just a point. Honestly, look, I've been doing a lot of great things for a long time. It's just a point in time, Brett. Just a point in time. It's the way it is. There was a mood in the air, I guess. And, you know, if you look, I shouldn't feel guilty because virtually I saw you on your show the other night saying that almost never does the sitting president, no matter how good or bad or Republican or Democrat, he or she is, but no matter how good the president is, you lose. I don't know why. Nobody's explained that, but it's almost every single time. And the one time, you know, I shouldn't feel bad. I shouldn't feel guilty. He's ranting and raving about how this is not his fault. He just wants, you know, nobody to blame him. There's no responsibility for Donald Trump, isn't that crazy? And then talk about being out of touch and completely lacking any awareness. He goes on to say that people actually agree with what I'm doing in Iran, which there's no data point that says that, but then goes on to say, you know, maybe people weren't willing to pay the short-term consequence of high gas prices, which is like, obviously are you stupid? Like, what do you, of course, people don't want to pay high gas prices for a war that nobody wanted to be in, that your administration hasn't even justified, and there's no evidence to justify it. But clearly, that's a message in some of the polls that we see in these exit polls that across the board. Well, I don't think, toward the bread, I think it's a gasoline price. People agree with what I'm doing on Iran, but they really probably weren't willing to do the short-term consequence of playing thing more for gasoline. And that, you know, I understand that that's, it's like, I don't agree with it. And I would say to people, you know, it's a short-term problem, but for long-term gain. But you know, it's too bad. Hey, look, bottom line is they were not able, in many cases, to get the votes. And I think the Democrats did a good job. I really do. I think they did a good job. They fought hard. They were, you know, they've been fighting for a long time. They've been fighting me for a long time. This fight's been going on for ages, you know, I started in, really, if you look at it, I've been doing it for 12 years with them, and I've come up on top all the time. And this is, I don't say, you know, I don't like to consider it as a feat for me. I was doing the ballot. If you run the ballot, it's different than if you're not on the ballot. But nevertheless, you know, I feel badly for a lot of very good Republicans. Well, no way. He's trying to claim he wasn't on the ballot. He wasn't on the ballot. He says, you did it various reality, bear it, bear it, bear it, the Fox News host, you asked him. You did it. Various rallies say pretend I'm on the ballot. But looking at this map, it doesn't seem like that message got out. And then Trump responded by saying they didn't like the candidates. And some of the candidates I endorsed fought me. I wasn't on the ballot. Despite Donald Trump, and I'm not joking yesterday. So, you know, the day before the midterms, depending on where you're watching this and where you're watching this from, the day before the midterms saying, I'm asking everybody to pretend I'm on the ballot and in a way, I am. He said that on Fox News, people just rejected Donald Trump. They said, we don't want to do this anymore. You're an idiot. We don't like what your administration is doing. We're voting for change. And that's exactly what the United States got tonight. We got change for the better. And Donald Trump can cry to his friends at Fox News. He can cry on social media. The facts don't change. So I will leave the video there. I am ecstatic. I am really tired. I got like no sleep last night, as I mentioned on the show earlier today. But a great day for the United States of America, a really major win. Thank you so much for watching. Drop a like on the video.
comment. Let me know what you think about this story and everything we just talked about. Have an amazing rest of your day and we will talk soon.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Donald Trump is reacting aggressively to the Democratic victory in the midterms, blaming external factors rather than acknowledging his own role in the political shift.
He falsely claims he wasn’t on the ballot and insinuates that opponents caused the losses, despite having actively promoted the idea that he should be on the ballot just days before the election.
Trump attacks Republican candidates like Greg Abbott, accusing them of losing due to insufficient MAGA alignment, while ignoring that extremist MAGA supporters also lost.
He posts a symbol reading "vito" instead of "MAGA," signaling a campaign strategy of political veto power to counter Democratic legislative actions.
Trump blames Fox News for the electoral losses, accusing it of spreading negative narratives about Democrats and worsening public perception, despite being the president and primary policy maker.
In his Fox News interview, Trump expresses surprise at the results, claiming a "mood in the air" and downplaying responsibility for rising gas prices, war in Iran, and the Epstein file cover-up.
He argues that the election loss is a "point in time" and not a reflection of his policies, suggesting that all presidents face losses regardless of performance.
The Democratic gains are framed as a legitimate response to public fatigue with Trump’s administration, including high costs, war, and corruption, reflecting widespread voter dissatisfaction.
Summary:
The Democratic Party achieved a significant victory in the 2024 midterms, winning control of the House and securing a strong majority in the Senate, including unexpected wins in several previously red states. This shift marks a major political realignment, reflecting public fatigue with Donald Trump’s administration, which is associated with rising gas prices, the Iran war, and the Epstein file cover-up. In response, Trump has launched a barrage of online posts and a Fox News interview where he claims surprise at the results, attributes losses to external forces like Fox News and anti-MAGA voter sentiment, and deflects responsibility by asserting he wasn’t on the ballot.
He attacks Republican candidates who lost, blames media for shaping voter opinion, and downplays the impact of his policies, despite clear evidence of public dissatisfaction. His rhetoric reveals a pattern of denial and finger-pointing, contrasting sharply with the tangible democratic momentum shown by the election results. The win underscores voter demand for change, especially in response to economic strain and political corruption.
Trump’s reaction reflects a desperate attempt to maintain influence, but the facts show a clear shift in public support. The next two years will be politically turbulent as Democrats consolidate power and push legislative agendas, while Trump continues to resist accountability.
FAQs
Trump is upset because the Democrats won key races, including the House and Senate, which he believes undermines his political influence and momentum.
He claimed he wasn't on the ballot and said if he had been, he would have won in a landslide, shifting blame to others rather than acknowledging his own role.
He accused them of losing because they weren't 'enough' MAGA, suggesting their policies or messaging were insufficient to defeat Democrats.
Yes, he blamed Fox News for amplifying negative narratives about Democrats, claiming it contributed to the losses despite being a major supporter of his campaign.
He claimed there was a temporary mood shift and said he shouldn't feel guilty, arguing it was just a point in time rather than a reflection of his leadership.
He claimed people agreed with his policies on Iran and that high gas prices were a short-term consequence they were willing to accept for long-term gains.
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