President Donald Trump spent Tuesday night having what witnesses described as "a complete fucking meltdown" following catastrophic Republican losses across the country, unleashing a five-hour Truth Social rampage featuring 47 all-caps posts, multiple crying emojis, and demands that someone—anyone—do something about the Democrats who beat his party like a drum.
The tantrum began at 10:47 PM when early returns showed Democrats sweeping gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, with Trump immediately spiraling into incoherent rage-posting about how "TRUMP WASN'T ON THE BALLOT" being the reason Republicans lost, while simultaneously demanding the GOP "TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER" to stop the Democrats he supposedly had nothing to do with empowering.
"RIGGED! RIGGED! RIGGED!" Trump shrieked across multiple posts around midnight, apparently forgetting that Republicans controlled the governorships in all three states and ran the elections he was now claiming were fraudulent. By 1:15 AM, the president had pivoted to blaming the government shutdown he personally orchestrated, tweeting "SHUTDOWN WAS THE PROBLEM" before deleting it and posting "SHUTDOWN HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT" seventeen minutes later.
"...AND SO IT BEGINS!" Trump wailed into the digital abyss at 2:47 AM, a post that made no sense in context but perfectly captured the energy of a man watching his grip on the Republican Party dissolve in real time as Democrats dominated in Virginia with Abigail Spanberger, New Jersey with Mikie Sherrill, and New York City where democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani cruised to victory.
The meltdown continued through dawn, with Trump posting AI-generated images of himself as a victorious warrior despite having just lost three major races, alongside demands that Republicans become "MORE TRUMP" using the exact strategy that just resulted in a historic blue wave repudiating his entire agenda.
