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Donald Trump has never been known for managing expectations quietly. His brand has always been big confidence, bravado, and the promise that he fights harder than anyone else. That is why his recent comments about midterms being almost impossible to win landed so strangely. If this movement is built on defiance, then why does it suddenly sound like resignation.
President Donald Trump seemed to be preparing Republicans for a 2026 midterm election wipeout on Thursday, telling Fox News that the sitting president “always loses the midterm, even if they’ve done well.”
“This is a midterm election year. Three times in the last hundred years, the party in power was able to maintain control. Four times in the last 150 years,” noted Fox News host Sean Hannity during an interview with Trump on Hannity. “You discussed this when you met with Republicans this past week. So historical trends are not with you.”
Trump replied:
“If you go back a long way, the sitting president, whether it’s Democrat or Republican, always loses the midterm, even if they’ve done well. Almost always. And, you know, you’d think it’d be like a 50/50 deal. Even if the president’s done a great job. I think we’ve done a great job. We’ve done maybe the best job ever in the first year, but they always seem to lose the midterm. There’s something down, deep psychologically with the voters, that they want maybe a check or something? I don’t know what it is exactly, but you would think when you have a victory and then on top of the victory you have a great, successful presidency would be an automatic win, but it’s never been a win. I mean, almost never been. You said two times or three times in a hundred years, it’s right around that number.” – Mediaite
He did go on later to say that he “hopes” that is not the case while boasting about what a great job he’s done in this first year.
What really stuck out to me in all this was not the history lesson. It was the tone. This is the same man who has built an entire movement on defiance. And now he is casually explaining that presidents always lose the midterms, no matter how well they do?
Sir, I need your toxic masculinity to kick in, please.
You do not motivate people by telling them losses are basically built into the calendar after spending years saying the country is hanging in the balance and everything is on the line.
And if this mindset is right, then all this talk about a new Golden Age starts to sound like wishful thinking. At this point, I almost wonder if he meant the Golden Arches instead of the Golden Age, because we all know his true long-term commitment is to McDonald’s.
All joking aside, please, sir, you don’t usher in some great national revival by casually handing Congress back to the opposition. What you get instead is gridlock, spectacle, and constant political warfare. Of all people, you should know this the best, Mr. President.
You get investigations for sport. You get impeachment talk every day. And you get hearings designed more to humiliate than to inform. Performance theater. The administration ends up spending more time defending itself than governing.
If we lose the midterms, the left will impeach Trump & imprison Elon.
Then all the black pill “conservatives” telling people not to vote, won’t be able to bitch & whine about how Trump sucks on X anymore. Wake up https://t.co/0wfgFmdJjc
— Melissa Tate (@TheRightMelissa) January 7, 2026
Trump would not be the only one in the crosshairs, either. Kristi Noem would be a target. Pete Hegseth would be a target. Anyone tied to this administration would be fair game. Not because of wrongdoing, but because that is how divided government operates now. It is not about accountability, it’s about obstruction.
What bothers me is that midterms are being treated like some kind of political weather pattern. As if losses are just something that rolls in like storms, and all you can do is board up the windows and hope for the best.
And to be fair to the President, it’s not just coming from him. The mainstream media and political pundits do this all the time.
And this is exactly what I mean. Everyone is already talking about these races like the outcomes are prewritten.
This is why the fight, fight, fight mantra matters. Not as a chant, but as a mindset. It is supposed to mean that outcomes are not fixed. That persuasion still works.
And this is where I offer one unsolicited suggestion to the president.
Stop explaining history and start challenging it! If the goal really is a Golden Age, then it should not be introduced with a shrug.
Feature Image: Donald Trump/Gage Skidmore/Flickr/License CC BY-SA 2.0/edited in Canva Pro, background replaced & color filtered.
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