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US midterms: 'Donald Trump's wings have been more than clipped'

US President Donald Trump faced a radically transformed and hostile political landscape after Democrats seized both the House of Representatives and the Senate in Tuesday's (November 3) midterms.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 5, 2026, 3:46 PM UTC

FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert has more.

The result was a personal humiliation for the 80-year-old Trump, leaving him as a lame duck president for the remaining two years of his term.

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