Daniel Wolfram
Donald Trump has gotten mad at a reporter before, but this time he really did not like the question.
With just five days until the midterm elections, Donald Trump is under a lot of pressure. The polls are looking very dire, and support for the GOP is vanishing.
Furthermore, Trump has just canceled his campaign rallies this weekend in Kansas and Iowa, where the Republican Senate candidates are projected to lose seats that are usually red.
And seeing red was what Donald Trump did when he took questions on the tarmac at an airport in South Carolina after a rally speech. There was one question in particular he did not like.
Trump tells a reporter to get in shape
Trump thought he had gotten one of the rare hard questions from a reporter who travels with the president in the press pool.
A reporter from Reuters asked Trump if the reason for not going to Kansas was that Trump was sick of traveling. However, Trump must have thought that he asked if he had canceled the rally because he had become sick from traveling so much. Trump went ballistic at him:
“Oh, you’re sick to ask that question. You are sick. Who are you with? You are a sick guy! Reuters is terrible, by the way,” Trump snapped at the reporter. It only got worse from there as Trump walked away, but kept coming back to answer the reporter.
“Look at this guy! He is way out of shape. I’m not going to Kansas because we are doing very well. […] You’ve been following me for two weeks, I feel perfect. You are disgusting! Put yourself in shape,” Trump ended his tirade.
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It is important to note that this video is embedded from an official White House social media account that amplified the attack on journalist Jacob Bogage.
Why did Trump cancel rallies the weekend before an election?
Some political pundits speculate that Trump may have chosen to abandon Kansas and Iowa because he has to salvage his other races in a lot of other states that are getting out of hand.
A CNN poll released yesterday shows Democrat Adam Hamilton is leading incumbent GOP Sen. Roger Marshall by 4 points, 49–45, among likely voters surveyed.
Likewise, accumulated polls collected by MS NOW show that the Senate race in Iowa between Democrat Josh Turek and Republican Ashley Hinson is locked in a tight contest, indicating they are virtually tied.
Trump will now hold several tele-rallies for candidates over the weekend after he finishes his campaign rally tour in Florida today.
