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2026 Mid-Term Elections

It's fake
Thank goodness. The suspicious part is it coming out now, not yesterday, but otherwise, this is Paxton, so yeah, he could have said that. Glad he didn't.
 
President Trump's current priorities in the wake of this catastrophic loss seem to be primarily real estate-related. Yesterday, he toured the ballroom site and signed one of the steel beams with his signature Sharpie. Today, he signed an executive order declaring the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room as a National Monument in an attempt to prevent President Buttigieg or whoever from redecorating it after he's retired.
 
Today, he signed an executive order declaring the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room as a National Monument in an attempt to prevent President Buttigieg or whoever from redecorating it after he's retired.
As he is aware, executive orders are not laws and can be simply undone by the next president. So it prevents nothing.
 
With all the new Democratic pollies can they over-rule a presidential veto?
It's possible but unlikely, especially in this era of characteristic non-cooperation between the parties. Around 4% of presidential vetoes have been overridden historically, and certain controversial figures (like Andrew Johnson, whose vetoes were overruled 15 times) drove that average up more than others.

We'll know more when all seats have been assigned, but it is not expected that the Democrats will have 2/3 majority in either chamber, so Republican support would be needed. There is only one national issue on which I could imagine such a vote succeeding: Iran.
 
Today, he signed an executive order declaring the Oval Office and the Cabinet Room as a National Monument in an attempt to prevent President Buttigieg or whoever from redecorating it after he's retired.
As he is aware, executive orders are not laws and can be simply undone by the next president. So it prevents nothing.
Correct. He is likely betting that there won't be much political will to remove the designation, which is true, but the executive order need not be fully reversed in order to contravene the clause about not changing the decorating.

It is, as always, executive overreach over the pettiest of issues. Expect many such EOs over the next two years. His final month will be a memo tantrum of the highest order, if his hands can still lift a marker by then.
 
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