After days of speculation over exactly what Donald Trump meant when he called on Republicans to “take over” American elections, the commander in chief has clarified that he will accept the 2026 midterm results — but only if they are “honest.”

On Wednesday, Trump told NBC News’ Tom Llamas that he will only accept the results of the 2026 midterm elections if they are “honest,” and that if he believes they aren’t, then “something else has to happen.”

He made the comment after Llamas asked him to clarify what he meant when he called to “nationalize” the elections. Under the U.S. Constitution, the states are given the right to oversee elections. The process has limited input from the federal government.

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    Same shit he has said every election for 10 years.

    I wish people would cop this dumb fuck’s modus operandi by now: he’ll called it rigged if he looses, and he’s also called it rigged if he doesn’t win with 100% of the vote everywhere. Because anything otherwise would send him into a spiral of narcissistic collapse.

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    Another public demonstration of the uneducated Donvict not understanding the Constitution and how our government works. His supporters are an anti-American disgrace.

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      No. Another public demonstration of a dictator’s contempt for the Constitution. He fucking knows. Don’t let anyone pretend he’s merely ignorant and not deliberately evil.

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        The guy doesn’t even know how to read. I think he’s ignorant and rock stupid but has a number of smarter people telling him what to do and think

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          I don’t fucking care. It is dangerous to underestimate him (or his handlers, or whatever – doesn’t matter!).

          What matters is that he doesn’t have to be smart or literate to have his brownshirts murder you, so it’s way past time to quit treating him like a goddamn joke!

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    Ask him to define ‘fair’ ahead of time. The man has no idea what the word means

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    I fully expect him to throw a fit and have to be forcibly removed when it’s finally his time to leave the white house.

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    If the US does not get to have free and fair elections then those guys are so descending into civil war.

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      If people know? Maybe

      If the outcome of election night is “The results have been disputed. People are just too stupid to fill out a ballot” then the vast majority will lose interest. And then the complicit oligarch owned news media just won’t talk about how fuckface and the christofacists picked the results.

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    The man doesn’t know the meaning of the word honest. Hence why he couldn’t prove anything last time.

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    For pity’s sake, Don, could you please just shut the fuck up for five minutes?!