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President Donald Trump found a reason to dance, less than 24 hours after the GOP came up empty in several key elections. The president revived his “YMCA” jig on Wednesday, after speaking at the America Business Forum in Miami. The 1978 Village People song has become such a staple of his campaign rallies that other countries are even serenading him with it, as evidenced by a brass band on the tarmac during Trump’s arrival in South Korea late last month. “After last night’s results, the decision facing all Americans could not be more clear,” Trump, 79, said, referencing 34-year-old Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York City mayoral race. “We have a choice between communism and common sense.” Other major GOP losses—including the gubernatorial races in both New Jersey and Virginia—were due to the ongoing government shutdown and that Trump himself was not on the ballot, the president shared to Truth Social on Tuesday. He reiterated that Wednesday morning to Senate Republicans, as well as his plea to “terminate the filibuster.” Around the time of Trump’s speech in Florida, the Supreme Court was considering an argument against his tariffs—and he didn’t appear to be on the winning side there, either. Even Trump-appointed justices, including Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, grilled Solicitor General John Sauer about the government’s claim that the president was within his authority to impose tariffs under an emergency declaration. Trump has declared the court’s pending ruling to be “literally, LIFE OR DEATH for our Country.” With ballots and justices not seeming to go his way, Trump returned Wednesday night to the White House, where a new, paper sign has been put up to identify the Oval Office—should anyone get confused.
