{"id":147332,"date":"2026-02-02T10:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/147332\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T10:03:13","slug":"trump-goes-on-manic-posting-spree-after-gops-humiliating-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/147332\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Goes on Manic Posting Spree After GOP’s Humiliating Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

The president self-soothed by going on a Truth Social posting spree after the Republican Party suffered a major upset in Texas.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump, 79, made seven posts in the span of just three minutes on Sunday afternoon and reposted six endorsements he made over the last week after a Democratic candidate secured a decisive victory in Texas\u2019 deep-red 9th State Senate District, which he carried by more than 17 points in 2024.<\/p>\n

First-time candidate Taylor Rehmet, 33, became the first Democrat to hold the seat in decades after handing a resounding defeat to MAGA activist Leigh Wambsganss, 57 percent to 43 percent.<\/p>\n

\"DemocratDemocrat Taylor Rehmet coasted to victory in a Texas state legislative special election on Saturday\u2014a district Trump comfortably carried a year ago. Screenshot\/Instagram\/Instagram <\/p>\n

Trump played nonchalant after the stunning loss in the solidly Republican district by touting the supposed success of his policies.<\/p>\n

The president reposted opinion pieces from the Des Moines Register<\/a> and Bari Weiss-founded The Free Press<\/a> titled, \u201cIowans are earning more, paying less after Trump\u2019s return\u201d and \u201cHow Trump Won Davos.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DonaldPresident Donald Trump linked to opinion pieces flattering him. Donald Trump on Truth Social <\/p>\n

Trump also published a screenshot of a Jan. 26 X post by Roma Daravi<\/a>, vice president for public relations of the newly MAGA-fied Kennedy Center, thanking him for \u201csaving America\u2019s cultural center.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president posted another screenshot, this time going all the way back to Dec. 3 last year, of an X post by Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar<\/a> lavishing praise for Trump\u2019s \u201ctremendous leadership.\u201d At the time, Trump had pardoned<\/a> Cuellar, who was indicted on a dozen charges, including bribery, conspiracy, and money laundering. <\/p>\n

In another Truth Social post, Trump bragged about receiving a letter dated Feb. 23, 1989, from convicted felon George M. Steinbrenner III<\/a>, the principal owner and managing partner of the New York Yankees for more than three decades.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou were great! You tell it like it is,\u201d Steinbrenner wrote. \u201cIt is like I said to Stephen, you should run for President some day and get the whole damn thing straightened out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DonaldTrump posted this Feb. 23, 1989 letter that he got from George Steinbrenner III. Donald Trump on Truth Social <\/p>\n

In yet another post, the president daydreamed over a rendering of his planned \u201cArc de Trump.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

The president also posted endorsements he had made in races in New Hampshire<\/a> and Indiana.<\/p>\n

In the case of Texas\u2019 9th State Senate District, however, Trump\u2019s Truth Social endorsements didn\u2019t carry Wambsganss to victory.<\/p>\n

Trump endorsed Wambsganss in three posts made between early Friday morning and Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\"Failed-candidateFailed candidate Leigh Wambsganss thanked the president for his endorsement. Screenshot\/X\/X <\/p>\n

\u201cToday is the day!\u201d Trump wrote on Saturday. \u201cTo all Voters in Texas\u2019 9th State Senate District: GET OUT AND VOTE for a phenomenal Candidate, Leigh Wambsganss. She is a highly successful Entrepreneur, and an incredible supporter of our Movement to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Wambsganss lost, Trump pretended to be blissfully unaware of the election he had made three posts about.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. I didn\u2019t hear about it,\u201d he told reporters<\/a> in Mar-a-Lago on Sunday. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not involved in that. That\u2019s a local Texas race. You mean I won by 17 [points], and this person lost?\u201d he said before shrugging. \u201cThings like that happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The president self-soothed by going on a Truth Social posting spree after the Republican Party suffered a major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10690,27,29,28,27194],"class_list":{"0":"post-147332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-maga","9":"tag-texas","10":"tag-texas-headlines","11":"tag-texas-news","12":"tag-truth-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}