No, Trump can't cancel the midterms. He's doing this instead

[Dulcinea]

(CNN) Worried about losing unified Republican power in Washington and mystified at his lack of support among the public, President Donald Trump keeps talking about not holding the November midterm elections, when Republicans could lose control of the House, Senate or both.

Trump doesn’t understand why his approval rating is underwater (and it is, on every issue, in a CNN Poll conducted by SSRS and released Friday).

“I wish you could explain to me what the hell’s going on with the mind of the public,” he told House Republicans in a speech earlier this month.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/17/politics/midterm-elections-trump-2026-analysis

[Omnipresent]

1. Maybe he should first understand he barely won in 2024.

Then he should try to grasp that he’s cutting the throats of those that voted for him. The rest of us wanted him to be sentenced to prison.

[NCDem47]

2. FACT: psychopaths lack remorse or empathy

[Lovie777]

3. K & R......

[Girard442]

4. Trump can't just cancel midterms.

Trump can't just blow up boats on the high seas.
Trump can't just kidnap Venezuela's president and take over.
Trump can't just send thugs to an American city to beat the ears off people and murder some of them.
Trump can't just do major demolition on the White House.
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Trump can't just start a nuclear war.

[mucifer]

5. I was waiting for a nuclear war his first term Might

happen soon.

[Wuddles440]

9. Exactly!

Too many continue to embrace the pollyannish mentality that he can't do this or he can't do that. But the reality is that he can and will because he's really never been held accountable for his depravity and lawlessness. Universally accepted norms do not apply to him, never have and unfortunately never will.

[Fiendish Thingy]

11. One of those things is not like the others

Can you guess which one?

Hint: it’s the one he has absolutely no authority over, and his EO’s on that issue have been ignored by the states.

[S/V Loner]

6. He doesn't have to. Now that a republican owns...

Dominion voting machines all they have to do is screw with the vote count in specific districts to guarantee GOP control. Who is going to investigate the votes? The GOP’s DOJ? Not likely.

[Abstractartist]

7. Just remember this

I posted this just a few days ago, and I truly believe it.

It’s not trump doing all this…

Think of it this way…. A 3 year old sees a big cake on the table. He wants to eat it. Mom and dad just watch, not saying a word to him. He grabs the cake and pops pieces in his mouth, on him face, the table, the floor, the walls, and so on, all the while mom and dad just look and do nothing…… that’s trump and congress, staff, advisors, Republican Party….. Greenland… mom and dad just look, ICE murders innocent people, mom and dad just look, Venezuela invasion, mommy and daddy smiles…..

[Baitball Blogger]

8. So, what is he doing instead?

Don't want to give CNN approval to attach cookies and your four paras does not answer the question.