In a surreal display after a historic streak of Republican losses in midterm elections, President Donald Trump's first public appearance was not to address the results, but instead was on the bare floor of his under-construction White House ballroom.
Trump — following blowout GOP losses and Democratic victories that will see his opposing party winning both chambers of Congress — retreated to what he called his "safest" space in Washington, D.C.
There, the president rambled to an assembled crowd of administration officials and construction workers about his multi-million dollar ballroom project while microphone feedback repeatedly screeched into the public address system. He then signed a steel beam alongside the signatures of workers who helped build the project, adding the word "Love" with an exclamation point above his Sharpie-inked name.
