President Donald Trump spent early Tuesday night making desperate phone calls and blasting Fox News before midterm election results came in.

“I have the ultimate power — it’s called ‘veto,’” President Trump told CBS News in a phone interview before polls first began to close in some states. Already, Trump appeared to make excuses for a potentially massive Republican loss.

Trump also called the Financial Times, assuring reporter Edward Lucas that the U.S. has no immediate plans to strike Iran, the Middle East country Trump started a war with in February.

Trump had a particular grudge against Fox News Tuesday night, texting commentator Greg Gutfeld about his disdain for liberal Fox News commentator Jessica Tarlov.

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    Isn’t that “communism”? Or does that poor old guy haven’t made up his mind yet? Liberalism, communism… Both end in -ism, so how big the difference could be anyway?

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      well, I guess if he calls Fox “fake news” he’ll be right for once, even if they report the real news this time.

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      He’s trying to muddy the water so his idiot followers think anything left of hunting the homeless for sport is liberal.