{"id":80959,"date":"2026-11-05T14:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T19:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/trump-is-soothing-the-midterms-loss-with-what-he-loves-best-interior-design-arwa-mahdawi\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T14:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T19:55:11","slug":"trump-is-soothing-the-midterms-loss-with-what-he-loves-best-interior-design-arwa-mahdawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/trump-is-soothing-the-midterms-loss-with-what-he-loves-best-interior-design-arwa-mahdawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump is soothing the midterms loss with what he loves best: interior design | Arwa Mahdawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n<p>As you\u2019d expect, the right is in a shambles right now. Elon Musk is making <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2117862767831159287?a=sJCCnxDMioxUH6HxU5E&amp;s=20\">jokes<\/a> about his \u201celection-interfering space lasers\u201d and pretending that he really, really doesn\u2019t care that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/nov\/04\/elon-musk-midterm-spending-analysis\">threw away<\/a> nearly half a billion dollars trying to influence the midterms. JD Vance is writing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/11\/04\/jd-vance-iran-war-midterms-01148838\">long essays<\/a> on social media about how he agrees the Iran war was a bit of an oopsie.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump, meanwhile, seems to be going through his own idiosyncratic grieving process about the Republicans\u2019 historic midterm beating. The president has skipped all the way past shock, denial and anger and landed at the \u201cadmiring my beautiful renovations\u201d stage of grief.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/05\/trumps-interior-design\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019d expect, the right is in a shambles right now. Elon Musk is making jokes about his \u201celection-interfering space lasers\u201d and pretending that he really, really doesn\u2019t care that &#8230; <a title=\"Trump is soothing the midterms loss with what he loves best: interior design | Arwa Mahdawi\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/trump-is-soothing-the-midterms-loss-with-what-he-loves-best-interior-design-arwa-mahdawi\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump is soothing the midterms loss with what he loves best: interior design | Arwa Mahdawi\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}