As Americans went to the polls for an election widely seen as a referendum on his second term, President Trump again downplayed concerns over the cost of living and addressed unpopular foreign policy matters.

For 11 years, President Donald Trump’s raucous rallies have offered a signature spectacle to a political movement that remade the Republican Party and then the country. As Election Day approached, Trump appeared to be contemplating the end of an era.

By the time President Donald Trump had concluded his hourlong closing argument speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Monday, the water in the basin behind him had become still, a perfect mirror of the Washington Monument and a grey November sky.

After showing snippets of Trump’s 23-minute ramble about the Reflecting Pool, CNN host Jake Tapper noted a New York Times study that found a marked increase in the president’s long-winded “head-scratching moments” that feature more profanity and less coherence.

Late night hosts delighted in the rather demented final days of midterms, focusing on Trump's meandering rallies and Stevens' bizarre endorsement of GOP candidate Mike Rogers.

A Times review of the president’s public speeches finds that he is more profane, more absolutist, longer-winded and less coherent than he was in 2016.

The president is “always on top of the most important issues facing Americans,” one critic snarked.

Donald Trump has set a new benchmark for his second presidency by giving a record-breaking rambling speech. The 80-year-old president held court at a campaign rally for Republican Senate candidate Ashley Hinson and gubernatorial hopeful Zach Lahn in Iowa on Sunday,