Trump as a "Lame Duck": What Does that Term Mean and What Does the President Do Then?

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A lame duck has been circulating in the White House for some 24 hours now. It's the lame duck term we hear about Donald Trump lately, after the Republican defeat in the US midterm elections. Democrats won the House of Representatives and the Senate, and the president who had relied on a Congress controlled by his party found himself facing the prospect of governing with two rival majorities. This is how his likeness to a “lame duck” becomes mean…

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Trump becomes a "lame duck" or "lame duck" - a term used when a president is nearing the end of his term or when his party loses influence in Congress