In a surreal display after a historic streak of Republican losses in midterm elections , President Donald Trump’s first public appearance after his party lost control of Congresswas on the bare floor of his under-construction White House ballroom.

Trump — blowout GOP losses and Democratic victories that will see his opposing party winning both chambers of Congress —retreated to what he called his “safest” space in Washington, D.C.

There, the president rambled to an assembled crowd of administration officials and construction workers about his multi-million dollar ballroom project while microphone feedback repeatedly screeched into the public address system. He then signed a steel beam alongside the signatures of workers who helped build the project, adding the word “Love” with an exclamation point above his Sharpie-inked name.

“This is the safest place in Washington,” Trump said. “It’s good for me.…