Donald Trump says he’s feeling good with the midterms days away.
But his body has been telling a different story, and new photos from his back-to-back rallies have only added to the whispers.
So when a reporter asked one simple question, it should have been easy to brush off. Instead, Trump took it personally and went off.
It wasn’t the first time a question about Trump’s own stamina got under his skin. Just days earlier, the president griped about wasting time on the road.
This time, he insisted he felt “perfect,” then spent the next minute proving the opposite.
What set him off wasn’t a question about his health at all.
It was a question about a campaign stop that had suddenly disappeared from his calendar.
Trump had been scheduled to visit Salina, Kansas, on Saturday, Oct. 31, to rally support for Republican Sen. Roger Marshall at Salina Regional Airport’s Hangar 509. But the Johnson County GOP and the airport told KCTV5 they scrapped the event because of “scheduling conflicts.”
On Oct. 29, Trump stepped off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, returning from a campaign stop in South Carolina; he met with the press.
A Reuters reporter asked whether skipping Kansas had “something to do with you being sick of traveling. Trump didn’t let the question breathe, then unleashed a tirade of anger.
“Oh, you’re sick to ask that question,” he shot back, as seen in a video shared on X. “You are sick. Who are you with?”
When Jacob Bogage revealed he was with Reuters, Trump replied, “You are a sick guy. Reuters is terrible, by the way.”
The reporter tried to smooth things over, saying, “Well, we just want to make sure you’re doing well.” That statement really set him off.
“Can you imagine? Look at this dope. Look at this guy. He’s way out of shape,” said Trump, while visibly drenched in sweat.
He then claimed he was skipping Kansas because Marshall is “doing very well.” But Republicans confirmed Thursday that Trump would no longer attend weekend rallies in both Iowa and Kansas.
The timing raised eyebrows. Marshall faces an unexpectedly tight race against Democrat Adam Hamilton in a state that hasn’t sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1932.
A new CNN poll cited by USA Today shows Hamilton ahead 49 percent to 45 percent, with 57 percent of Kansas voters disapproving of Trump’s job performance. Trump carried the state by 16 points in 2024.
“I don’t feel I have to go to Kansas,” he said. “You’ve been following me for two weeks, I feel perfect. You are disgusting. Put yourself in shape, you look like hell.”
That “two weeks” line landed awkwardly, because Trump complained about that exact stretch just days earlier. During an Oct. 23 stop in Fort Myers, Florida, he told the crowd he was ready to leave because he felt he was wasting his time.
“I’ll give you another one and then I’m going home because I’m wasting time,” he said. “Why do I have to keep doing this for? I’ve been doing this now for two weeks.”
Online, plenty of viewers zeroed in on the gap between what was asked and what Trump heard. “Interesting he heard that as being sick, instead of sick of. A little too on the nose, me thinks,” one person wrote. Another added, “Very defensive. He didn’t ask him about his health he asked about being tired of traveling.”
Others couldn’t get past the insults. “‘Put yourself in shape….’ says the last person on earth who should be telling ANYONE ELSE to do that,” a third user posted.
Some took aim at his favorite deflection. “Sick of hearing this irrelevant question he uses to evade answering their questions,” one person wrote of his “Who are you with?” routine.
And one commenter saw the outburst as a sign of something bigger. They wrote, “He gets triggered because it’s true. He can’t do it. He’s falling apart.”
The blowup capped a grueling run. Trump has held more than two dozen rallies in the campaign’s final stretch, often speaking for nearly two hours, and his voice has turned hoarse along the way.
After a nearly two-hour speech in Park City, Kansas, on Oct. 19, he even admitted that standing that long wasn’t easy, telling reporters, “It’s not easy to stand up there for two hours ranting, raving.”
This also isn’t the first time this month he’s turned on reporters. When faced with tough questions, the press isn’t his only target. Trump also regularly snaps at hecklers and press who interrupt one of his rallies.
Now, instead of a hangar full of supporters, Marshall gets a phone call.
The White House said Trump will connect with voters through more than 20 tele-rallies before Election Day, along with an in-person stop in Daytona, Florida.
Whether he truly feels “perfect” is another question, and clearly one he doesn’t want asked twice.
Q: So you not going to Kansas has nothing to do with you being sick of travel? Trump: You are sick to ask that question. Who are you with? Look at this guy. He’s way out of shape. I don’t feel I have to go to Kansas. I feel perfect. You are disgusting. Put yourself in shape. You look like hell
— Headquarters (@HQNewsNow) October 29, 2026
Trump Goes Off on Another Reporter, Unleashes a Barrage of Personal Insults Over One Simple Question
Leave a Reply