Transcript of Trump Responds to Midterm Defeat as Democrats Gain Control of Congress

Donald Trump now facing the worst defeat in presidential history. During a midterm elections, Democrats will take control of both chambers, the House of Representatives and the United States Senate. In the Senate, Democrats will take at least 55 seats, a commanding majority there. In the House of Representatives, Democrats likely will take about 255 seats, folks, perhaps even more over there. And when you look at some of the state legislative races as well, Democrats just won the Texas statewide races.

Except for the fake polls out there. My poll numbers are great. No, they have such fake polls.

CNN projects that Democrat John Ossoff will win the Senate race.

Keisha Lance Bottoms will become the next governor of Georgia.

You can dismiss the polls, okay? The polls are wrong.

Don't buy it. I'm telling you, I'm on the ground in the swing districts. I am seeing huge energy and crowds. It feels like 2024 to me.

Amy Acton.

Geneina Hossam makes history.

James Talarico.

We just took back Texas.

Roger Marshall. He's one of the best senators. I think he's tied or up by a little bit.

Hamilton will defeat the Republican incumbent, Senator Roger Marshall.

They pull way too many Democrats.

Chris Pappas.

Jocelyn Benson.

Amy Klobuchar.

Deb Holland.

Zach Dembo.

Cage Cognetti. Democrats will win control of the House of Representatives.

They were made up fake.

Rob Stan, Democrat Josh Turick, will win the Senate seat in Iowa.

I know. I'm only 26 years old, but I've never seen a poll that was real. Every single one is fake. Why are we suddenly going to start believing that these polls are actually showing reality?

Democrats will win control of the US Senate.

Frankly, I think the Times should be prosecuted for that.

Roy Cooper will win. Democrat Peggy Flanagan will win.

Senator Susan Collins has called Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson to concede.

You know, we have sent 1,000 posters all over the country. I'll bet you some guy says that.

Michigan, we did it.

And I examined his ass.

The green, that's not grass, that's algae.

Oh, baby. Oh, oh mom. Oh. Pretend that I'm on the ballot. I'm on the ballot.

You know, I don't like to consider it a defeat. For me, I was on the ballot.

So Donald Trump called into state regime media, which calls itself Fox, after this stunning defeat, which actually wasn't all that stunning if you've been following what's been happening over here. And Donald Trump was like, "I got Greenland. I got Greenland." Here, play this clip.

Greenland. You know, everybody said, "Oh, Greenland, Greenland. He's not going to get it." I got Greenland. We have Greenland. And nobody talks about it. Greenland is massively rich. And we made a deal on Greenland. I didn't have to go to war to do it. That's what I do. I make deals. We've made we've done things that think of it. Greenland is three times the size of Texas. And we got it. Very little fanfare when we got it.

Yeah.

If I didn't get it, there'd be massive fanfare, I can tell you. But we got it and it's permanent. It's forever. It's not like 100 years. The JC, you know, the Obama nuclear thing.

JC Pence.

The Obama.

You didn't get Greenland. I have no clue what you're talking about. This is what you're ranting and raving about after that massive loss. Donald Trump, though, did say, I guess I do have to say, congratulations to Democrats here. Play this clip.

Take from tonight and a message to the American people?

Well, I say this: Congratulations to the Democrats. They did a good job. They've been looking for this one for 11 years and they finally got it. But I don't view it as a hit on me. I think we've done a we've had the greatest two years in the history of the presidency.

Can we take a look, folks, at what's happening in Austin right now, where there are celebrations like the Super Bowl was just won in Austin? By the way, this reminds me of almost like a toppling of an authoritarian regime, right? You think about what just took place in Texas where Democrats took control of the State House, the State Senate, all of the major statewide races Democrats won. The Governor's Mansion now in the control of Gina Hinojosa, the governor-elect as Abbott tapped out.

Good point. What could be the incoming oversight chairman, Robert Garcia, just put a statement out. If they go on to secure the majority in the House, he would be the chairman of the Oversight Committee. He has two words, quote, "Lawyer up." That's the message of.

Harold?

So, I mean, they're sending the signal that it's going to be a bumpy ride and that's the choice that at least Robert Garcia is making.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump, when he was on the call with state regime media Fox on live TV, is like, "All your polls are terrible." And then Brett Baier is like, "Yeah, but we were right. Like, we predicted that there was going to be this wave. So how are we wrong and our polls are terrible?" And Donald Trump's like, "I don't know about that." Here, play this clip.

And that I shouldn't say this, but Abraham Lincoln was at 8%, Ronald Reagan was at 13%, and Trump was at like 54%. And then I read at Fox that I'm not popular. You know, I mean, the Fox polls are terrible. You ought to get yourself a good pollster because your pollster is the worst.

But tonight, actually, the results are pretty close to what the Fox polls showed.

Well, I don't know about that. I can just tell you about speaking for myself. And the results with Fox with me were wrong for 12 years. I mean, they've gotten me wrong for 12 years. But.

Brett Baier asked Donald Trump if he's going to accept all of the results of the election. Let's play it.

The administration.

But you're going to accept all these races, right?

Yeah, sure. I'll accept them. Why wouldn't I?

But let me ask you this.

Caroline Leavitt. She had her perspective that she goes, "I just think the American people didn't know what they were doing. This was all one big mistake," she said. Play this clip.

Before the president launched the operation in Iran, I remember being at the podium talking about how gasoline was $1.99 in states like Colorado. And that was because of his energy dominance plan, not the Democrats. So unfortunately, I think the American people forgot about the good policy, maybe listened to the lying media on the other side that is definitely in the backseat of the Democrat Party. And the Democrats don't have policy solutions.

And you know how much money they have.

I don't.

They got more money in their pockets because of the president's tax cuts that Democrats voted against.

But Trump was like, "You know, I think Democrats did " He goes, "I think Democrats did a good job. The blue tsunami was so big, that's what Donald Trump was left with saying." He goes, "Yeah, I think they did a good job." And I wasn't on the ballot. Here, play this clip.

We didn't have enough.

Your home state, you did have two big wins.

Two of them. Two good ones.

A little closer than people thought they were going to be.

A lot. No, not a little. They were a lot closer. They were a lot closer.

To the issue that Martha mentioned about the war, clearly that's a message in some of the polls that we see in these exit polls that cross the board.

I don't think it's a war though, Brent. 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 paying more for gasoline. And that, you know, I understand that. It's like I don't agree with it. And I would say to people, you know, it's a short-term it's a short-term problem, but for long-term gain. But, you know, is that too bad? Hey, look, bottom line is they were not able in many cases to get the votes.

President Trump, you said you've spoken with some of the Democrats who won tonight. Where do you think you could work together and what would you like to accomplish if you can give us any.

Except you would always say, "I am on the ballot. Vote for me like I am on the ballot." Just I'll give you an example of one of those speeches. Let's play it.

I want you to do me one big favor. Pretend that I'm on the ballot. Pretend that I'm on the ballot because we get a lot more votes. I really am on the ballot.

Meanwhile, in Israel, Netanyahu is likely going to be out of power as well. We know that Gadi Eisen caught the opposition leader from the Assar Party forming a coalition government there with the Arab bloc. And Israel's Central Election Committee said that it reviewed all of the complaints issued by Netanyahu that the election was stolen. And they said, "BS, the election was not stolen." Take a look at this map, though, of the directional arrows of the country turning all blue in 2024.

That's not what people are voting on. I've been on many Fox programs. I respect this network, but I've got to tell you guys, you're missing the plot. The American people are looking at a war they do not believe in and they did not authorize. They're looking at prices that are making it impossible for middle-class people, let alone working-class people, to live. They are losing their healthcare. It's not about Medicare for All. Some of us believe that'd be a good policy. It's not going to happen tomorrow. Right now, people can't get the healthcare they need. So this is what's happening. And the Republican Party had an opportunity to speak to it. The Congress had an opportunity to legislate. They did not do it in this last year.

But they had a choice before the more moderate candidate and they chose to let go of Haley Stevens and go with a Democratic socialist.

A populist economic message that says our economy is rigged. I mean, Bernie started this 10 years ago. Our economy is rigged and a small group of billionaires has too much power in this country. There's a hell of a lot of Republicans and independents who agree with that message. And they made that clear tonight.

To which Donald Trump said, "I'm going to become a political pundit, both good and bad, on the reasons these candidates won and lost." Then Donald Trump's posting weird AI hats that say, "Veto, veto." Very odd right there. And then Kristi Noem, former Department of Homeland Security Secretary, who's obviously going to be the subject of a lot of investigations in the House and the Senate. She said, "Larry Kudlow is correct. We were too successful the first year of the Trump administration."