President Donald Trump spent early Tuesday night making desperate phone calls and blasting Fox News before midterm election results came in.
“I have the ultimate power — it’s called ‘veto,’” President Trump told CBS News in a phone interview before polls first began to close in some states. Already, Trump appeared to make excuses for a potentially massive Republican loss.
Trump also called the Financial Times, assuring reporter Edward Lucas that the U.S. has no immediate plans to strike Iran, the Middle East country Trump started a war with in February.
Trump had a particular grudge against Fox News Tuesday night, texting commentator Greg Gutfeld about his disdain for liberal Fox News commentator Jessica Tarlov.
Americans on the whole hate Trump, but there’s still that core of 30-ish% who love him uncritically. They’re all Republicans, which makes them around 60% of the GOP and more than enough to determine primary outcomes. It’s hard to get nominated as a Republican without Trump, and now we see that it’s hard to win with Trump.
I suspect that most of those cult members will just stop voting once their idol fades away. Maybe that will let the Republicans recover in 2030, but you just know Trump’s going to be out for his base in 2028.
Just to add to your point about his cult. Reminder a lot of them were politically unengaged up until 2016, without Trump there’s a solid chance they become inactive again.
Mind you there’s always a risk they latch onto one of his kids but they will still most likely bleed 10 percent or so of their numbers in the process.
I hope all his kids run, and split the trump vote.
Personally I’d much rather they comic ritual mass suicide upon his death, either that or they all fuck off to their masters in the middle east.
God willing
Let’s hope we get a Big Beautiful Day before that can happen.