Fox News: Jessica Tarlov Notices Trump Is Doing This After Election Disaster

Fox News host Jessica Tarlov said that Donald Trump will never change, following the president’s social media post on Monday (November 9), in which he appeared to suggest that the midterm elections had been rigged.

“We have done this dance too many times. ‘Is Donald Trump different?’ ‘Did we hear from a new president tonight?’ He’s exactly who he has always been!” Tarlov said on Monday’s edition of The Five.

In the immediate aftermath of last Tuesday’s (November 3) election results, which saw Democrats take control of the House and the Senate in a blue wave, Trump had a surprisingly subdued response. He even told the New York Times he would be “absolutely willing to accept those results” and looked forward to working with Democrats.

Tarlov also pointed to Trump’s 60 Minutes interview with Ross Douthat on Sunday (November 8), saying the president had “a few moments of levity, messing around with Ross a little bit… they had some nice moments. He seemed connected to reality a little bit, other times not so much.”

Jessica: We have done this dance too many times. “Is Donald Trump different?” He’s exactly who he has always been. He woke up this morning and he’s an election denier again. He is going back to his greatest hits which have failed time and time again. They will fail in court if he decides he wants to move in that direction.

— Acyn (@Acyn) November 9, 2026

During his sit-down with Douthat, Trump said that voters didn’t like many of the Republican candidates, while also claiming the story would have been different if he himself had been on the ballot. He also acknowledged that the war with Iran and the resulting rise in gasoline prices contributed to his party’s election losses.

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However, as Tarlov noted, on Monday “he wakes up and boom, he’s an election denier again.”

The liberal commentator then read Trump’s Truth Social post, in which he wrote, “Does anybody really believe that this “Election” was honest. How could the Polls be so wrong??? Some early voting “dumps” were so large that it was impossible to win, no matter how many people went to vote. It’s all about the machines, which are far more important than the voter!”

Tarlov said Trump is “going back to his greatest hits which have failed time and time again. They will fail in court if he decides he wants to move in that direction or he can find a lawyer to actually try to pull this off.”

“That’s how you keep yourself on your death bed politically,” she concluded.