CNN’s Anderson Cooper Is Baffled by Trump’s Ballroom Bragging After Election Defeat

The Republicans suffered many major losses in the midterm elections on November 3, but in his first public appearance in the aftermath of the blue wave, Donald Trump still managed to try and brag about himself. On November 4, the president held a press conference at the construction site of the ballroom he’s building at the White House and raved over the project.

“This will be something very special,” he insisted. “And so we’re putting up the last piece of steel. I thought it would be appropriate to have the media here.” He also told the reporters, “It’s going to be not only one of the biggest, but it’ll be the most beautiful ballroom, I think, anywhere in the world.”

CNN played clips from the briefing, and Anderson Cooper couldn’t hide how flabbergasted he was by what the president was focusing on just one day after the midterms. “And it went on,” Cooper said. “He talked about the granite. He talked about really every aspect of the construction of the ballroom the day after this massive election loss.”

Reporters tried to throw questions at Trump about the election, but he mostly brushed them off. When asked if he was worried about potential impeachment, he replied, “No. Not even a little bit. I think it would destroy the Democrat party if they did that because impeachment for no reason … what? For having a successful country? Our country’s more successful now than at any time in its history.”

He then turned attention back to the ballroom construction behind him, telling the media, “Watch the beam go up.”

The footage cut back to a baffled Cooper who said, “Uh, I don’t think we need to watch the beam go up. Or maybe we can just play the beam going up as we continue to talk. It’s remarkable, he says, ‘If I was on the ballot, we would’ve won.’ He couldn’t translate the love in the rallies he had to the candidates … candidates he largely forced down the throats of voters.”