Now that the dust has settled some after last week’s stunning midterm elections, there are two words the electorate has for President Donald Trump.

No, not those two words.

The two words we’re hearing most are “lame duck.”

As for the other two words, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the next likely Speaker of the House, covered them months ago when he urged voters to clean house and push Trump’ supporters out of office.

Well, it was actually three words.

“F—k Donald Trump,” Jeffries said in a video posted to Instagram back in February.

The outburst was in reaction to a video Trump reshared on social media in which former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama were depicted as apes.

The vile video, posted during Black History Month, repeated false claims about a stolen 2020 election, and showed the Obamas’ heads edited onto the bodies of apes as part of a “Lion King”-themed meme that cast Trump as “King of the Jungle.”

F— Donald Trump,” Jeffries thundered at the time, “and his vile, racist and malignant behavior.

This guy is an unhinged bottom feeder. Every Republican sycophant who continues to stand by their cult leader should be run out of office.”

Mission accomplished.

There’s no other way to interpret last week’s seismic political shift than as a big “F-ck You” to Donald Trump.

After months and months of endless inflation, rising gas prices, and an escalating war in Iraq that has no exit strategy, Americans have had enough.

But Democrats still need to be careful. Instead of pursuing yet another impeachment against Trump and his minions, the Democrats who will be in charge of both houses of Congress need to look ahead.

“I think that going on in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea,” former Vice President Kamala Harris, who lost to Trump two years ago, said on a podcast last week. “We have limited resources and I think the energy and the resources need to be put into accountability, need to be put into investigations and that’s where the time should be spent.”

Still, Trump does not appear to be getting the message.

Days after the election blowout, Trump signed an executive order to preserve the Oval Office as a national monument, a move designed to protect the gaudy gold flourishes

“It will not be allowed to be touched by anybody, destroyed, ripped down by stupid people, in order to build something in a slightly different shape,” Trump said. “If they want to say, ‘Let’s not have oval anymore, let’s make it square,’ what happens is they have to go back to Congress and hopefully the Congress, the people in Congress, will be smart enough not to let that happen.”

Sitting on the Resolute Desk as he spoke was a red baseball cap with the word “VETO” on the front, a not-so-subtle message to the incoming Congress.

A day later, the tone deaf Trump elevated his most polarizing aide, Stephen Miller, to be his next chief of staff, a move that generated another outburst from Jeffries.

“Stephen Miller is a dangerous xenophobe and reckless extremist who has American blood on his hands,” Jeffries said in a social media post. “His presence in government should be eradicated like a malignant tumor.”

Trump said the outcome of the midterm elections would have been different if he had been running. But that is not likely.

In the weeks leading up to the election, Trump had asked voters to pretend he was actually on the ballot.

And that’s exactly what they did.

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