Trump lost Congress. 3 presidents before him did, too

I want to put some historical context on just how rare this midterm result is in the U.S. Donald Trump has just become only the third U.S. president to preside over his party losing both the House and the Senate at a midterm election. The last time it happened before this was 2006 in a scenario that has some significant echoes of what just happened. That was when the Republican President George W. Bush Bill Clinton lost both the House and the Senate at the midterm. When he was in the middle of pursuing an incredibly unpopular war in the Middle East, that one was against Iraq. Before that was Bill Clinton in 1994, and Clinton's Democrats lost both the House and the Senate in that midterm, in large part because Clinton's attempts at reforming the health insurance system here in the US were really, really unpopular. Before that, you've got to go all the way back to 1946 and Harry S. Truman to find the previous time when a sitting U.S. president presided over such a disastrous loss of both the House and the Senate in the midterms.