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Trump’s shattered ‘mirror world’: American voters roundly reject president’s alternate reality

President claimed to have ushered in a ‘golden age’ even as prices soared and war dragged on – and midterm voters did not buy his looking-glass narrative A new “golden age of America” is under way, Donald Trump repeatedly declared in his final pitch to voters before the US midterm elections.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 8, 2026, 7:00 AM UTC
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  • The stock market had hit 88 all-time highs.

The war in Iran was not really a war, because “we’ve done very little fighting”, the US president stressed.

“They’re saying,” he said, that on his watch the US has become “the hottest country anywhere in the world”.

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