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.

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[–] 46 points 10 hours ago (10 children)

Maybe not.

The GOP civil war has started, its just a matter of who will fire the first bullet and when?

We've heard for years GOP congressmen HATE Trump. Now they see America HATES Trump too. Who (if any) will scramble to cross party lines to impeach and remove to save their own careers?

I mean, we shouldn't let them save their own careers, but we should let them act like there's a chance to appease us before we vote them out and (god willing) prosecute them.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 hours ago

    I suspect that most of those cult members will just stop voting once their idol fades away.

    God willing

    you just know Trump's going to be out for his base in 2028.

    Let's hope we get a Big Beautiful Day before that can happen.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 hours ago

    The founding fathers probably never expected things to go this sideways, but one of the features of seperation of powers was supposed to be that politicians would save their own skin and stop other branches from doing the wrong thing.

    The problem is having captured all the branches, there was no sinking ship for the rats to flee. That has now changed, Trump has become a sinking ship

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 child)

    Doesn't matter who hates him, he's the face of the Republican party. If he goes down, they go down with him.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 hours ago

    Not if they flip on his ass. I think Bibi has shit on them as well as trump though, it really depends on what Israel's next moves are. Not to mention those beholden to other masters like Putin.

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