Members of both parties were beginning to agree by the time Democrats were called to the House and Senate on Tuesday: voters had rejected President Donald Trump's record in office, and he would have to deal with a very different political landscape for the rest of his term.

But Trump has a very different perspective.

In a live phone interview with Fox News, Trump stated, "But I don't view it as a hit on me." "In terms of the economy and everything we've accomplished, we've had the best two years in the history of the presidency."

Trump argued that neither the Iran conflict he started eight months ago—he told the Wall Street Journal that was merely a "piece" of it—nor the tariffs that raised costs or his obsession with subjects unimportant to voters were the main causes of the startling outcomes over a large portion of America.

He said that the candidates were to blame, aided by positive coverage of Democrats on Fox News, his former favorite channel. He would subsequently tell that channel that the outcome was merely a "little surprise." He had long cautioned that the winds of history were always against him. He failed to disclose that he had personally chosen a large number of the candidates.

He told Fox, referring to Republicans in the third person rather than the party he presently leads, "I thought they'd do better." He then claimed that a "mood in the air" was to blame for the defeats.

In spite of the drastically changed political landscape in Washington, he nonetheless asserted Tuesday nite that his governing program would proceed at a rapid speed.

Trump spent the majority of the last month traveling to conservative areas on Air Force One to urge supporters to "pretend I'm on the ballot," and the election results marked the end of a protracted and frequently stressful campaign season.

The strategy failed, but Trump blamed the people he was attempting to assist rather than his own performance.

He told Fox, "They simply didn't inspire the people to get out and vote." Additionally, I wasn't listed on the ballot. They would have left if I had been on the ballot.

Trump personally chose many of the candidates that lost on Tuesday, including Mike Collins in Georgia, Michael Whatley in North Carolina, Darline Graham in South Carolina, and Ken Paxton in Texas, sometimes over the concerns of other Republicans.

While lamenting the candidates' failure to convert his support into votes, he made no mention of that.

Regarding his choice to back scandal-plagued Texas candidate Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, he stated, "I had no choice." "He kissed my ass when it wasn't fashionable."

Trump's desire to place the blame on the candidates of his party seemed to change every minute.

A few minutes before midnight, he commented ominously on Truth Social, "I'm going to become a Political Pundit, both good and bad, on the reasons these Candidates won and lost!"

His first target was Republican Governor Greg Abbott of Texas, who was defeated by Democrat Gina Hinojosa for reelection. "He went back to his original formula, and it wasn't pretty," Trump said, calling him a "Republican in name only."

However, he said he wasn't interested in placing blame in a phone interview with Politico at about the same time.

He declared, "I don't want to blame anybody." "I just wanted to let you know that it was a really fascinating experience. I watched with a lot of attention and gained knowledge from it.

Trump came seen as more accommodative to Democrats, whom he will now have to rely on in order to get anything through Congress. After Republicans lost the House in the 2018 midterm elections, he made similar promises, but the promises of bipartisanship never came to pass.

You know, I have a lot of Democratic friends. He claimed, "I've already spoken to some of them, believe it or not," but he did not identify them.

He mentioned in passing that he was looking for areas of compromise, but he reiterated that he had no regrets about the war in Iran, which many Republicans blame for the party's problems.

"I don't consider it. When asked if he regretted the conflict, he told the Wall Street Journal, "I did the right thing." "I would have done it once more."