Trump breaks his silence after disastrous Election Day — to share old glowing news coverage
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Donald Trump’s first morning-after reaction to massive Democratic victories in midterm elections saw him revisiting some of his favorite headlines.
The president posted images from a print edition of The New York Post’s Tuesday story hailing the so-called “Donroe Doctrine” and his strongman, military-driven foreign policy dominating the Western Hemisphere by killing hundreds of people accused of trafficking drugs and launching a military operation to arrest Venezuela’s ousted leader Nicolàs Maduro.
It was Trump’s first post to his social media platform after election night, which also saw him call into Fox News to muse about the results — which saw Democrats winning control of Congress with sweeping state-level victories across the country — after he complained about the network’s coverage.
The Post’s story, featuring a date of November 4, 2026 in the print edition Trump shared, was published Tuesday. Today’s front page features a cartoon of the president drowning under a “blue tsunami” in an image inspired by “The Great Wave off Kanagawa.”
Trump continued to post other rosy post-Election Day assessments by touting a “record high” stock market.
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