Jim Cornette has weighed in on the 2026 midterms, and he thinks Donald Trump has nobody to blame but himself for Republicans getting hammered at the polls. Cornette argued that Trump managed to drive away multiple groups that had previously supported him — and now he wants the new Congress to start digging into what happened during his administration.
Speaking on his YouTube channel, Cornette celebrated what he called a “blue tsunami,” though naturally he still found something to complain about. His biggest question was how some of these races were even remotely close.
“All right, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, they were hoping for a blue wave. They got a blue tsunami. And basically, the best part about this whole thing is Mama Cornette was right all along. There are more good people than there are bad people. It just takes the good people a long time these days to get up off the f******* couch.
“But finally, they came through. And I hate not to be overjoyed, Brian. But you know me, I’ve got to find the turd in every punch bowl, so to speak. How is this shit still this close?”
Then Cornette got to Trump. He argued that the president had spent his time in office driving away groups of people who previously helped put him there, something Cornette had actually been warning about before Election Day as well. Ringside News
“But I just don’t understand the way the math works. But nevertheless, the way the math worked was finally the way that it ought to when this stupid son of a b****, just flat-out demented, dementia-ridden fuck, has run off every group that he had swindled, flimflammed, conned, defrauded, and shystered.”
Jim Cornette specifically pointed toward Hispanic voters, claiming Trump’s immigration policies had come back to bite Republicans.
“He got the Hispanics for whatever reason. We remember we said, like the chickens for Colonel Sanders, and then he promptly sent bands of armed masked thugs out in the street to beat them with sticks and shoot them and kill them in front of fucking public.
“One would think that would tend to dissuade a voter, and it did. Especially Texas, the Rio Grande Valley is bluer than the water, cuz the water’s polluted. But they said, ‘Oh, fuck you.’ And rightfully so. And it’s not like that would be unexpected.”
Those are Cornette’s characterizations of immigration enforcement and voter motivations, not independently established explanations for why individual voters cast their ballots the way they did. Cornette also went after Trump over economically struggling Americans and claimed plenty of regular voters had simply gotten sick of what they were seeing.
“And he got again slammed with the poor people who basically are living under overpasses now because of all the stupid s*** he’s done. They’re not idiots. There’s still some poor people that will gladly eat his s***, but the ones that aren’t idiots, he ran them off.
“I don’t think he did good with any minorities. But finally also, he’s turned the halfway decent and decent regular folks against him with just this display of dementia and depravity, and the people with a conscience came back at him.
“So he’s still got billionaires, MAGAts, and general a**holes, but he lost everybody else, which was good enough. Close enough for rock and roll.”
Cornette also thinks Trump’s preferred candidates got an especially nasty wake-up call. In his view, Republicans who tied themselves closely to Trump paid for it, while some of the Republicans Trump pushed away might have had a better night.
“You’re correct. A lot of the Republicans just caught the strays, as the kids say, you know, because they were involved with this whole thing. But the people that he really said, ‘Oh yeah, you got to put them in,’ they f****** trounced those sons of b*******.
“And the Republicans that he ran off because they had a glimmer of enough conscience or honesty or whatever to disagree with him, they would have done better.”
Trump himself has pushed back on treating the results as a personal defeat, arguing afterward that he wasn’t on the ballot. Cornette, obviously, sees things very differently. And he doesn’t just want everyone to look at the results, laugh and move on. Cornette wants the next phase to involve investigations into alleged wrongdoing involving Trump, members of his family and people around his administration.
“But obviously they need to try to stop Trump and his family and close social circle from stealing any more money, or as little as possible or whatever.”
Those are allegations from Cornette, not findings that Trump or his family committed the crimes he alleges. But Cornette wants Congress to start putting people under oath and getting answers in public.
“But in all honesty, they’ve got to haul a lot of these people into whether it be criminal court or just congressional proceedings under oath, publicly on the record, for the historical record.
“People have to hear, because you asked about, is this the end of MAGA? People have got to hear whether they like it or not how Trump, the key people, what they lied about, what crimes they committed, how the backstage shit of how all this has happened has got to be forced out so you can destroy the myth of him and maybe people’s minds will start to heal.”
Cornette’s bigger concern is what happens after Trump. He argued that simply moving on without publicly establishing what happened could leave the door open for someone else to come along and try the same things.
“What is to prevent us from doing this again? What is? And the next guy studied? That’s why I’m saying there’s got to be testimony out in public, under oath, in proceedings to illustrate how this whole thing happened because there’s got to be some type of guardrail.”
Bottom line: Cornette definitely wasn’t interested in a polite little election-night victory lap. He thinks Trump helped sink his own side, and now he wants Congress to turn the spotlight back on the administration with public hearings, sworn testimony and investigations — assuming lawmakers have evidence to pursue those allegations.
What do you make of Jim Cornette blaming Donald Trump for the Republican losses and calling for public congressional hearings into alleged wrongdoing? Let us know what you think in the comments.
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