The "Pod Save America" podcast team celebrated the Democratic Party's congressional wins in the midterm elections, calling the results "the beginning of the end of the Trump era" on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Tuesday night."Pod Save America" hosts Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer and Tommy Vietor appeared on the ABC late-night show as news outlets, including Fox News, projected that Democrats would win control of both chambers of Congress following the midterm elections.Kimmel asked whether they believed anyone from President Donald Trump's administration would be fired following the midterm election results.Vietor said he was unsure but expressed optimism about the country's direction."I think that tonight is the beginning of the end of the Trump era in America," he said.CONSERVATIVES STUNNED BY 'CATASTROPHIC' MIDTERM BLUE TSUNAMI, BLAME TRUMP'S IRAN WAR, HIGH GAS PRICESThe Democratic Party was projected to retake control over the House and the Senate after the midterm elections Tuesday night.
( Mario Tama/Getty Images)Kimmel noted earlier in the segment that all four men had worked in former President Barack Obama's administration during the 2010 midterm elections, when Democrats suffered major losses that Obama described as a "shellacking." Pfeiffer described the 2010 election as "one of the worst nights of our lives" but said he would enjoy seeing Trump administration staffers experience a similar feeling."That night we went in, we knew it wasn't going to be great, so we had three scenarios: not that bad, kind of bad, pretty bad," Pfeiffer said."We ended up with way worse than all of those.
We were walking out of the White House at 3:00 in the morning.Rahm Emanuel, the chief of staff at the time, looked at us and said, 'Tomorrow is about to be the worst day of your life and everybody is going to call for you to be fired.' And he was right.
It was terrible." "And I am going to enjoy every second of every Trump staffer feeling that way tomorrow," he added.DOU...