With Democrats set to take control of Congress next year and many already planning investigations against President Donald Trump and his allies, questions have arisen about how Trump plans to govern in his final two years in office. And one progressive political pundit even predicted the president would resign by Easter next year.
A Strategic Move by a ‘Bored’ President Trump
President Donald Trump meets with President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa, Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at the David S. Mack Center for Training and Intelligence in Garden City, New York, Friday, August 14, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)
Months back, Democratic strategist and political commentator James Carville predicted the midterms, saying it was a foregone conclusion that Democrats would come in strong in the polls.
Claiming that Trump was “bored” of the presidency and the war in Iran, and was “obviously not well,” and “sleeps all the time, slobbers all over himself or whatever,” Carville said that a Democratic victory in the midterm elections would deliver a major blow to the president’s ego. “[He is] not particularly a hard man,” Carville said of the president, adding that a resignation would be Trump’s natural response to the “massive rejection of him, anybody that has anything to do with him, anything that has anything to do with [him].”
Carville also implied that such a resignation would be strategic, since the president would then have the option of securing a pardon from Vice President JD Vance, who would assume the presidency if the former stepped down before the end of his term.
Another Example of Trump Derangement Syndrome
At the time, the White House was quick to repudiate the prediction, with spokesperson Davis Ingle calling Carville a “stone-cold loser who suffers from a severe and incurable disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, and it has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”
Carville — who also predicted that Kamala Harris would win the 2024 presidential election — said that he embraces having “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and said that he wished that there was medicine he could take to make him hate the president more.
The Prediction May Be Questionable, But the Blue Wave is Real
The midterm election saw Democrats flip seven Senate seats previously held by Republicans — in Texas, Maine, North Carolina, Iowa, Kansas, South Carolina, and Ohio.
They are set to hold 54 seats (which include two Independents) to the GOP’s 44. As of press time, two seats are still up for grabs.
Of these seven states, Trump won by double digits in five during his 2024 presidential run.
Two of the biggest upsets against the GOP were in Texas, a long-time conservative bailiwick. James Talarico is now the state’s senator-elect after defeating his Trump-endorsed opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
The state’s incumbent governor, Republican Greg Abbott, will soon vacate the governor’s mansion for Democrat Gina Hinojosa, who will also be Texas’ first Latina governor.
Aside from Texas, governorships in Ohio, Georgia, Nevada, and Iowa previously held by the GOP flipped to Democrats. In Georgia, Governor-elect Keisha Lance Bottoms, the former mayor of Atlanta, will also hold the distinction of being the first Black woman governor in US history.
In the House, a party needs 218 seats to be the majority, and Democrats have secured significantly more—255.
As of press time, Republicans hold only 168 seats, but more than a dozen races have yet to be called.
Regardless of the results, however, Democrats have enough to dominate the lower chamber of Congress, and they will also hold the Senate.
The Blue Wave is Coming for Trump
Whether or not Trump resigns, Democrats are determined to hold him accountable. Shortly following the Democrats’ victories in the midterm election that showed liberals holding both chambers of Congress, prominent progressives like California Representative Robert Garcia and Democratic Oregon Senator Ron Wyden pointed to the Trump administration’s agreements with pharmaceutical firms on drug pricing, allegations of corruption and connections to Russian oligarchs, and the excessive immigration crackdowns by ICE as matters to investigate.
Cabinet officials are also set to become targets—newly appointed White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is one—and Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, narrowly avoided impeachment proceedings this week. Hegseth may be safe for now, but Democrats have said that once the new Democrat-controlled Congress goes into session, it will be a different story.
About the Author: Tim Ramos
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