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The word is out about the Election Night Watch Party at the White House on Tuesday. For weeks, Trump had been assured by Susie Wiles and his staff that all the polls were wrong, and that, once again, the Blue Wave would only be a ripple, if one even showed up at all. And the DOJ was ready to pounce on it if it did. Trump, after all, was on the ballot. "Vote like I'm on the ballot,' he said, "Because I am." He told every rally that. He said it on FOX. He had a 90% approval rate, he said. And $5000 checks for everybody. What could possibly go wrong? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . So the East Room was decked out with the finest crystal and china. Staffers thought it would be a fun "cheeky rebuke" to order in platters of finger food from Cheesecake Factory. Just to give a finger to Barack Obama, for his viral joke about Trump’s gaudy renovations to the White House. EVERYONE showed up in their party clothes. His Staff. His Cabinet. Top GOP politicians. Donors. But there was no Host or Hostess to greet them. Which was a little odd. The guests mingled among themselves, and waited to be formally welcomed and invited to sample the refreshments. Where were Trump and Melania? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trump waited upstairs in his residence, in order to make a grand entrance to a standing ovation with cheers, once the happy results started pouring in. And was Melania also waiting upstairs, to march in at his side? Nope. Melania was not at the White House at all. On election night, the most anticipated night in politics, with the rest of her husband's term on the line, Melania was somewhere else. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Finally at 8:00 the first election results came in. But during that entire first hour, not ONE Republican was named. It was only Democrat after Democrat, starting with Jon Ossoff. Trump never came downstairs. At all. Marco Rubio was the first to go missing, according to the Daily Mail. Then, one by one, the rest of the party goers slipped out the door. Only two hours later, an enormous decision was called. Democrats had flipped the House of Representatives to their control. And in most cases, the Democrats won, not by slim majorities, but by double digits. It was 10:00, and the East Room was empty. The party goers had gone to a nearby Washington bar to drown their sorrows. The Cheesecake Factory food lay untouched on the East Room tables. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . And Trump? He was upstairs watching the results on FOX News, and posting angrily on Truth Social. He wasn't alone. No, Melania wasn't with him. But Natalie Harp was. The Daily Mail reports that Susie Wiles, his Chief of Staff was upstairs as well. The one who had assured him day after day that Republicans would win. By 11 pm, Trump stopped posting. “He’s watching Fox News barely uttering a word and paralyzed into silence,” a source close to the president told the Daily Mail. “It’s very, very dark in the residence,” one senior official said of Trump’s mood. “It’s a dark scene.” Another source said, “They were delusional right until the very end.” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commentary by Glee Violette

Presidents certainly have the right to pick their Chiefs of Staff, but selecting Stephen Miller shows that Donald Trump has learned nothing from the message Americans sent him in this election. Miller is the architect of some of the worst policies of this presidency, from the cruel and chaotic ICE enforcement to the tariffs jacking up your costs. Promoting him isn’t only bad for this Administration, it’s bad for the American people.

It's morning again in America.

Lmao been waiting for this….absolute cinema….no notes!

This should be enough to end his career as a TV host 🤭

A classic chart to counter the wisdom of crowds idea. US Americans are absolutely clueless about how common things are. They think over a quarter of Americans are Native Americans, one in five Americans is transgender, over a quarter of the population are Muslim, one in five households earn over half a million dollars. The right answer to all of these questions is 1%. They build their worldview on totally incorrect assumptions towards reality. Data literacy matters.

It was actually our 250th anniversary. Not that you would know — you spent it with the British.

Here’s a closer pic of the “award” Trump received REUTERS/Evan Vucci

Donald Trump: 🇺🇸🇮🇹 "Estados Unidos e Italia están unidos desde hace miles de años, desde la época de la Antigua Roma"

Trump: How do you like the deal I made on Greenland? Got it for nothing. It’s probably the greatest real estate deal ever made. Although, I think Venezuela is pretty good too.

Trump swats a fly and blames the people hosting the event. "I hate flies, I don't like flies what the hell did they put on this thing it's attracting flies. Good job fellas I appreciate it, don't pay your bill, don't pay the bill, nah I hate flies"

TRUMP JUST TOLD TIME MAGAZINE HE'S PRE-PARDONING HIS OWN STAFF FOR CRIMES THEY HAVEN'T COMMITTED YET Read that again. Not pardons for crimes already charged. Not pardons for crimes already discovered. Pardons for whatever his people might get caught doing between now and the day he leaves office Donald Trump said it himself in the interview. He's "considering" blanket immunity for administration officials before any indictment, before any investigation, before any victim even knows they were harmed This is a get out of jail free card printed in advance and handed out to the entire building Think about what that actually means for a second Every official around Trump right now can break the law today knowing the boss already promised to make it disappear tomorrow No deterrent. No fear. No accountability. Just a blank check signed by the most powerful man in the country for anyone loyal enough to carry out his orders This isn't protecting innocent people from unfair prosecution. This is Donald Trump building a legal shield around his own administration before the bodies are even found Ask yourself who benefits. Not you. Not the people getting rounded up by his agents. Not the families losing funding, losing jobs, losing loved ones to his policies The only people who win are the ones standing closest to Trump when the hammer finally comes down. And he just told them, on the record, in print, that the hammer will never land This is not normal. This is not legal theory. This is a president publicly rehearsing the cover up before the crime And he's saying the quiet part in Time magazine like it's a real estate deal They are not going to stop. They are just going to make sure nothing ever sticks

Lots of fake doctors on X.