After the election fiasco, the US president held a meeting where disappointing results were agreed upon. They were significant from the point of view of the absence of Congress Speaker Johnson, who cited urgent business to not attend the meeting at Trump's invitation, and the Senate Majority Leader, who suddenly came down with the flu and also did not show up. In particular, on the sidelines of the White House, they discuss Trump's sharp and merciless criticism of candidates in "contending" states, especially in Texas, which he believes did not justify the great trust placed in them and "spoiled and lost everything I won during the election campaign." In addition, the president mercilessly criticized Vance, who dared to make a veiled criticism of his Iran policy and said that he was disappointed with his position on the Iran issue, was interested in a peace agreement under any conditions, and had not yet seen his future in the presidency. Trump said that he has two options left to break the Iranian impasse: either to resume hostilities, or to freeze the war and strengthen the financial and military blockade on Iran, and he is leaning towards the second option, but does not rule out the first. The US president also stated that he would like to fire the head of the Pentagon, Gessett, but he "showed respect and loyalty" to him personally in the difficult last days of the election campaign, and therefore he "will not hand him over to the Democrats and will not send him to resign" in the near future. The American president also gave everyone present at the meeting an example of Musk, that "although he sometimes disagrees with me, he is definitely not a traitor and is a person dedicated to our cause." Trump said twice during the meeting that he would "thwart any investigations" that would incriminate Musk, and if convicted, he would certainly pardon him.