Trump is soothing the midterms loss with what he loves best: interior design | Arwa Mahdawi

The president seems to accept this is his last White House stint and is focused on renovating whatever he can get his little hands on

As you'd expect, the right is in a shambles right now. Elon Musk is making jokes about his election-interfering space lasers" and pretending that he really, really doesn't care that he threw away nearly half a billion dollars trying to influence the midterms. JD Vance is writing long essays on social media about how he agrees the Iran war was a bit of an oopsie.

Donald Trump, meanwhile, seems to be going through his own idiosyncratic grieving process about the Republicans' historic midterm beating. The president has skipped all the way past shock, denial and anger and landed at the admiring my beautiful renovations" stage of grief.