What was it like inside the White House on a disastrous midterm election night for President Trump’s party? The Daily Mail provided a glimpse of how the president reacted to a night of huge losses for his party.
According to The Daily Mail, the president spent most of the evening in the White House residence.
“Ensconced with his redoubtable Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Natalie Harp, the aide who has enjoyed unusually direct access to Trump throughout this second term, the President watched as the Blue Wave swept in. His First Lady was not watching with him,” The Daily Mail reported of Trump’s election night.
Trump ‘paralyzed’ by fury as he hides in private residence and refuses to see anyone; Considers purging Susie Wiles and Marco Rubio — Daily Mail https://t.co/GU5ucLsrJB
— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) November 4, 2026
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In the East Room, where Cheesecake Factory food was served, the room thinned out as the night wore on, the Mail reported.
The president, the report said, was “seething.”
“It’s very, very dark in the residence,” one senior official told the newspaper. “It’s a dark scene.”
“He’s watching Fox News, barely uttering a word and paralyzed into silence,” one source told The Daily Mail. Throughout the night, the president took to Truth Social to rip that network, Fox News, and also to blame Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his own loss.
“If Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas, hadn’t become a RINO in the last six months of his Political Life, he wouldn’t have lost,” Trump said of the Republican Texas governor who suffered a shocking loss on Tuesday.
Donald Trump was so angry at his breathtaking midterm defeat that he holed himself up in the dark with his ever-present aide, Natalie Harp, as the results rolled in. https://t.co/bMcnHnOtN9
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 4, 2026
Who might bear the brunt of what happened?
“‘Tonight would have looked very different without the Iran War,’ one official told the newspaper. “I believe you’ll ultimately see POTUS hold Hegseth accountable.” Another expected Secretary of State Marco Rubio to suffer some blame for Tuesday’s result. Aides also speculated that White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles could be on her way out.
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