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“I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!” declared an unfazed Trump on Truth Social blaming everyone from individual candidates to even Fox News but himself, as the Republicans rout robbed them of control of both chambers of the Congress. And while liberal critics lamented the “exit of another powerful woman,” Trump announced wily Wiles, a key architect of his own 2024 victory, will be moving over to the Trump Political Operation, signalling that he wasn’t going to loosen his hold on Republican party any time soon. “Look, I’ll get along probably with the Democrats, unless they want to be destructive, but I have the power of the veto,” Trump said when he finally got round to answering questions.
As the writing on the wall became clear on election night, Trump told the Times he looked forward to working with Democrats even as he flexed his veto muscles. “I have total veto power, so they have to come to us,” he said. Trump himself had no regrets for a “very wise decision for the future of the country and the world” saying he “would do that again While his Vice President JD Vance suggested on X that the “real reason” for the Republican’s widespread losses was anger over Iran war. “They don’t mind the Iran, but they probably weren’t happy — they weren’t happy with the oil price,” Trump said. “I consider it to be the most successful two-year period in the history of any president,” he told the Times. And as Trump’s enemies and frenemies at home and abroad gleefully viewed him as a “hobbled duck,” he lost no time in declaring a new war with a photo of a red baseball cap with just one word “VETO” followed by another of a glaring Trump reminding everyone, “PSA: TRUMP IS STILL YOUR PRESIDENT.”
“And if they have some good ideas, I’m certainly open to working. He acknowledged that voters were unhappy about gas prices. But he insisted that he regretted nothing about the first two years of his second term, despite the widespread Republican defeats.