{"id":70069,"date":"2026-06-03T14:22:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70069"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:22:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:22:53","slug":"maga-mike-johnson-pitifully-tries-to-cover-for-trump-saying-i-dont-care-about-the-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70069","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Mike Johnson Pitifully Tries to Cover For Trump Saying &#8216;I Don&#8217;t Care About the Midterms&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming midterm elections portend to be a disaster of epic proportions for Donald Trump and his Republican Party. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5901371-trump-job-approval-record-low\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s approval ratings are at record lows<\/a><\/strong>, and generic political party polling shows Democrats with significant advantages over the MAGA-ified GOP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=MAGA Mike Johnson Pitifully Tries to Cover For Trump Saying 'I Don't Care About the Midterms'%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70069\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=MAGA Mike Johnson Pitifully Tries to Cover For Trump Saying 'I Don't Care About the Midterms'%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70069\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-johnson-baby.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump and Mike Johnson\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68124\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Making matters worse, Trump is proving to be his own worst enemy with every utterance emanating from his pathologically lying lips. Even under the best, most favorably rigged circumstances, Trump manages to dig himself ever deeper into a hole that he has no chance of climbing out of.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70050\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Humiliates Himself in a Hysterical Interview By His Daughter-in-Law Lara Trump on Fox News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So what does his chief representative in Congress do to rescue him from a dire electoral fate? Well, during a Wednesday morning press briefing, Republican House Speaker, MAGA Mike Johnson, tried to sane-wash some of Trump&#8217;s demented babbling. Last week Trump was asked about how his fiasco in Iran might impact the midterms. Trump replied that <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[Iran] thought they were gonna out wait me. &#8216;We&#8217;ll out wait him. He&#8217;s got the midterms.&#8217; I don&#8217;t care about the midterms.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mmtv7x2fvl2v\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiawfj6kliy7dvovyoegkpqx3u634zxtegzs3pjz6jmp6ytbpkk3v4\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Trump: &#34;I don&#39;t care about the midterms&#34;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\">Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3mmtv7x2fvl2v?ref_src=embed\">2026-05-27T16:06:36.364Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a pretty clear statement that Trump isn&#8217;t bothered by the broad public disapproval of his handling of the Iran quagmire. True to form, he&#8217;s going to do whatever he wants without regard to what the American people want, or what&#8217;s best for the nation. When this came up at Johnson&#8217;s press briefing, it elicited the following exchange&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Question:<\/strong> Trump says he doesn&#8217;t care about the midterms. Do you think he&#8217;s focused enough on domestic policy?<br \/>\n<strong>Johnson:<\/strong> What he said there has been taken out of context and it&#8217;s so unfair. This president is more laser focused and more dialed in on domestic issues here in the homeland than any president in memory. He spends more time working on domestic issues in one day than Joe Biden did in four. That&#8217;s an objective fact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>REALLY? After Trump said that he doesn&#8217;t care about the midterms, Johnson makes excuses saying that Trump was &#8220;taken out of context,&#8221; and that he <em>&#8220;spends more time on domestic issues.&#8221;<\/em> On on the former, it&#8217;s hard to imagine a positive context for saying he doesn&#8217;t care. But on the latter, to be fair, he&#8217;s kind of right, depending on how you define domestic issues&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mnfnfkdeu22a\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiglcaa3njjymruze4aqftdmvu3kokilfhzaho2qxfhaqokp62n534\">\n<p lang=\"en\">After Trump said that &#34;he doesn&#39;t care about the midterms,&#34; GOP Speaker MAGA Mike Johnson makes excuses saying that Trump &#34;spends more time on domestic issues.&#34; And to be fair, he&#39;s kind of right.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg?ref_src=embed\">News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/post\/3mnfnfkdeu22a?ref_src=embed\">2026-06-03T17:34:29.767Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say that Johnson didn&#8217;t help Trump with that nonsense reply. Trump&#8217;s domestic agenda has been nothing short of abysmal. The only thing that&#8217;s worse is his foreign agenda. But that didn&#8217;t stop Johnson and his House GOP lieutenants from making clowns of themselves. Notice the posters that he set up for the briefing. One of them asserts that while <em>&#8220;Republicans are CUTTING YOUR TAXES, DEMOCRATS WERE TRANS-ING THE MICE (with $8.2 Billion of Your Tax Dollars).&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>First of all, the <em>&#8220;trans-ing the mice&#8221;<\/em> reference is just as untrue as when Trump said it in a speech before Congress last year. He totally misunderstood a report <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/you-numbskulls-rachel-maddow-blasts-trump-during-trans-mice-fact-check\/\" target=\"_blank\">on <em>&#8220;transgenic&#8221;<\/em> research<\/a><\/strong> on mice, which are genetic experiments done to study human illnesses, and have nothing to do with gender transitioning. And secondly, the only tax cutting that Trump has done was for corporations and the wealthy.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson could have spared himself the trouble of covering for Trump&#8217;s asinine comments about not caring. Most Americans already know that he doesn&#8217;t care about them. He even said so on another occasion just last month when he <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/president-defends-remarks-americans-finances-iran-war-perfect-statemen-rcna345418\" target=\"_blank\">defended his war against Iran<\/a><\/strong> and the economic harm it was doing here at home, saying that <em>&#8220;I don\u2019t think about Americans\u2019 financial situation. I don\u2019t think about anybody.&#8221;<\/em> Yeah&#8230;We know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70064\" target=\"_blank\">WHAT 1ST AMENDMENT? 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Trump&#8217;s approval ratings are at record lows, and generic political party polling shows Democrats with significant advantages over the MAGA-ified GOP. Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to post on Bluesky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[219,152,1,8,16],"tags":[554,1141,1140,716,1504],"class_list":["post-70069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-election","category-general","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-economy","tag-election","tag-iran","tag-mike-johnson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-johnson-baby.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ie9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68519,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68519","url_meta":{"origin":70069,"position":0},"title":"MAGA Mike Johnson Just Gave the Best Reason For All Americans to Vote for Democrats Next Year","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/21\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"This weekend the MAGA cult is gathering in Phoenix, Arizona, for their annual \"AmericaFest\" rally, an event launched by the late Charlie Kirk's white nationalist \"Turning Point USA\" organization. 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