Overview
- In a Reuters Oval Office interview, President Donald Trump said his accomplishments were so significant that “we shouldn’t even have an election,” as he lamented the historical trend of the president’s party losing midterms.
- White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president was “speaking facetiously,” noted the interview had no audio or video, and rebuked reporters who questioned the remark.
- Fresh handicapping shows Democrats gaining ground, with the Cook Political Report moving multiple House races toward Democrats and polling averages giving them an advantage for November.
- Trump dismissed a Reuters/Ipsos survey on Greenland as “fake,” said “I don’t care” to GOP pushback over the DOJ probe into Fed Chair Jerome Powell and to Jamie Dimon’s concerns, and emphasized following his own instincts.
- He defended continued deployments of armed federal agents after the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, and separate coverage noted he threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to protests.