“Coping with loss looks different for everyone, and President Trump has processed the country’s nearly wholesale rejection of the Republican Party in the midterm elections in his own way,” the New York Times reports.“The last week has seen the president renew false claims about rigged elections, float a mixed martial arts executive as his new press secretary, muse about the beams in the White House ballroom, oust his chief of staff and call unannounced into C-SPAN.”“In other words, this is all unfolding exactly as expected. The news has been bad, and Mr. Trump knows it. Cue the mayhem.”