The White House on Wednesday posted a photograph of US President Donald Trump on X with the message, “PSA: Trump is still your president,” following major Democratic gains in the US midterm elections 2026.
Trump says Iran war played a role in his party’s defeats
“I think part of it was Iran, but at the same time, people understood the importance of what I have done with Iran. Trump also expressed surprise at the results. “I’m a little bit surprised. There were thousands and thousands of people outside, let alone inside, couldn’t get in. He added, “I thought that I could transfer those people onto candidates.
Speaking about the lead-up to the November 3 elections, Trump said, “We had tremendous rallies. We had about 30 of them. Because you can’t let the number one state sponsor of terror have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said, historically, it will be much more important than this evening.
Trump said that he thought the Iran war played a role in the Republican Party’s losses in the US midterms. I thought they’d do better,” the president told Fox News. Trump has cancelled public appearances after the heavy losses in the midterms, according to Newswire.
In Texas, Democrats won both a Senate seat and the governor’s race, ending decades of Republican rule. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed became the first Muslim elected to the US Senate. El-Sayed also took aim at US Vice President JD Vance and President Donald Trump, both of whom had repeatedly criticised him during the campaign.
“JD, habibi, it is an irony—you are constitutionally obligated to swear me in, in January,” he said, AFP reported.
It has appeared amid the unfolding midterm results, which will determine the composition of the US Congress and could reshape the political landscape in next two years of Trump’s presidency.
The post ended with the line, “Thank you for your attention to this matter,” a phrase often used by Trump in his communications across social media handles.
