Trump Self-Soothes With Dodgy MAGA Math After Election Disaster

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President Donald Trump has resorted to posting dubious figures to console himself after his party’s brutal midterm rout. Trump, 80, shared two posts on Truth Social on Sunday,…

President Donald Trump has resorted to posting dubious figures to console himself after his party’s brutal midterm rout.

Trump, 80, shared two posts on Truth Social on Sunday, comparing his party’s midterm performance to that of past presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan.

The president’s posts featured graphics comparing the number of Senate and House seats each listed president’s party lost in their respective midterm elections, with Trump’s losses appearing smallest.

However, the octogenarian cherry-picked the figures without crucial context, including the size of each party’s pre-election majority and, the political landscape in which the elections took place.

Trump’s graph showed that Republicans lost 48 total House seats, compared with 54 for Clinton’s Democrats and 63 for Obama’s. But the president failed to account for the vastly larger House majorities both Democratic presidents held at the time, leaving more seats at risk.

During Obama’s first term, Democrats held 256 seats before dropping to 193, while during Clinton’s administration, the party fell from 258 seats to 204. This year, Republicans entered the election with a narrow 218-seat majority and emerged with 169 seats—fewer than Democrats held after either of those earlier midterms.

Trump’s House graphic also omitted the margin by which Democrats beat Republicans in the national House popular vote.

The Democratic Party’s estimated 13 percent advantage over Republicans in the national House popular vote is second only to the party’s massive 16.6 percent margin in 1974, which followed President Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal.

Going into the midterms, Trump’s GOP held 53 seats while Democrats held 45, plus two independents who caucus with them.

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