Trump breaks his silence after disastrous Election Day — to share old glowing news coverage

Following Democratic gains in Tuesday's midterm elections, President Donald Trump's first social media activity came the next morning, and it steered away from the results. The Independent reports that Democrats took control of Congress and won broadly at the state level. Trump instead put up photos of a printed New York Post piece, dated November 4, 2026, that celebrated what it called the "Donroe Doctrine," a forceful, military-backed approach to dominating the Western Hemisphere. The coverage credited that approach to the killing of hundreds of people accused of drug trafficking and to an operation to arrest Venezuela's ousted leader, Nicolàs Maduro.

The president had spoken the night before by phone to Fox News, where he mused about the outcome after first complaining about how the network was covering it. The Post itself struck a different tone on its current front page, which carries a cartoon showing Trump overwhelmed by a "blue tsunami," modeled on "The Great Wave off Kanagawa."

Trump also kept up an upbeat message after the vote by pointing to a "record high" stock market.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Independent’s reporting. Read the full story at The Independent →