US President Donald Trump warned that he would systematically block the opposition’s initiatives if Democrats control the House of Representatives or the Senate in the midterm elections on 3 November.
«If that happens, I suppose I will become Mr Veto. I am not going to let them ruin it,» the president stated during a preview of an interview broadcast this Sunday by Fox News, in conversation with Miranda Devine, a New York Post journalist and host of the Pod Force One podcast.
According to the president, a president without a legislative majority would not be new in US politics, and he affirms that, if it were to happen again, he would aim to wear down his rivals until they negotiate.
«They will send bills, and you veto them. And finally, after a month or two of you vetoing everything, they come closer, and you reach a deal,» Trump detailed how he would handle the situation, although he added that he hopes not to have to worry about that outcome.
These statements reinforce the position the president himself had anticipated days earlier to reporters at the White House, before leaving for a campaign rally.
When asked about the risk of political stalemate after the elections — in which he is confident of a Republican victory — he assured that in the event of a Democratic triumph his strategy would be simple: «Veto, veto, veto,» convinced that the continuous blocking will force the opposition to sit at the negotiating table.
Trump: I Would Have Won the Vietnam and Afghanistan Wars in a Short Time
US President Donald Trump assured this Sunday that, if he had been at the head of the White House during the Vietnam War and the Afghanistan War, he would have won them in a matter of weeks.
Trump: I would’ve won the Vietnam War in a week. I would’ve won the war in Afghanistan.https://t.co/eaWK6o2pnb
— Acyn (@Acyn) November 1, 2026
«I could have won the Vietnam War in a week […] They spent years and years and years bombing forests instead of going after Ho Chi Minh City [Saigon],» he stated during a campaign rally at the Five Flags Event Centre in Dubuque, Iowa. «I would have won the Afghanistan War in a very short time,» he asserted.
Trump:
I would have won the war in Afghanistan in a very short period of time.https://t.co/qH27Dcm6XD
— Clash Report (@clashreport) November 1, 2026
Donald Trump has also again spoken out about Iran, with which he is trying to close a pact to end the armed conflict. «Either we reach a deal, or we will finish it once and for all — I imagine one can say — in the easiest way,» he declared this Sunday.
«But the work we have done is incredible,» he stated in reference to Iran during a campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa, interviewed by an RSBN journalist.
(With information from RT en Español)
