All the most unhinged moments from the last 24 hours in Trumpworld - where Trump is floating cancelling elections again - and Karoline Leavitt had some very cross words with a reporter who challenged her
19:55, 15 Jan 2026Updated 19:58, 15 Jan 2026
There's a greater than zero chance that by the time you read this, Donald Trump has the Nobel Prize.
He hasn't won it, but he might physically have it in his possession. Maria Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who won the prize, is visiting the Oval Office today, and Trump was a bit cute in an interview yesterday about whether she'd bring the gong with her.
Many assumed Machado would be installed as interim leader of Venezuela after Trump snatched President Nicolas Maduro in his pyjamas. But he reportedly soured on the idea because - despite saying many nice things about him - Machado didn't refuse to accept her Nobel Prize and offer it to the Donald.
He was left with the indignity of having to accept a made up award from FIFA instead. Since the invasion, Machado has made occasional appearances on US news channels, clearly trying to love bomb the US president into thinking again and installing her as caretaker President. Whether that stretches to handing over her peace prize I guess we'll find out as the day goes on.
Meanwhile, in Trumpworld
- Leavitt loses it after being called out
- Furries take over Mar A Lago
- Trump floats cancelling elections again
- "Let them eat broccoli"
Here's what you need to know
1. Voters hate Trump approach to immigration
Turns out American voters really hate Trump's approach to immigration. CNN's excitable polling guy, Harry Enten points to figures showing a 20 point negative swing on the issue, from 8% positive a year ago to MINUS ELEVEN this month.
This should surprise nobody. The constant theme when I speak to Trump voters about how the first year has gone is that they like most of what he's done, but don't feel comfortable with people being yanked off the street and bundled into vans.
2. Trump floats cancelling election again
Trump told a reporter "we shouldn't even have an election" this year, in the latest hint he plans to scrap November's midterms.
He's has been quietly floating the idea of axing this year's congressional election, which polls suggest will see his Republican party get a pummelling from voters. He's made offhand comments in speeches and candid remarks, but today for the first time he proposed the idea in an interview with the Reuters news agency.
He told the reporter historically the party with control of the White House tends to lose seats in Congress in midterm elections, expressing frustration at the precedent.
"It's some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don't win the midterms," Trump said. According to Reuters, he boasted that he had accomplished so much that "when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election."
3. Leavitt says it was a joke, but you have to take her word for it
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked about the remark at a briefing this afternoon.
She said it was a joke. She knows this because she was in the room, but you'll have to take her word for it because there was conveniently no video or audio recording.
4. Let them eat Broccoli
The Trump regime has been taking some heat over RFK Jr's new set of recommendations for healthy eating, given the foods they now recommend most are expensive things like protein, dairy and steak.
Not a bit of it, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said yesterday, because surely all Americans can afford her suggested $3 meal - which reeks of of purest depression.
"We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing," she said.
"So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
YUM.
5. Furries take over Mar A Lago
Speaking of pound shop Marie Antoinettes, while telling Americans to be happy with their single piece of broccoli, down in Palm Beach they were living the high life.
But closer inspection of footage and photos from a lavish bash hosted by Trump's Mar A Lago club over the weekend reveals something odd.
Performers dancing around the pools and lawns at the were dressed in 18th century ballgowns and finery. And also semi-realistic dog masks.
It was only a matter of time before the Furries took over Florida's high society, but you're still never quite prepared for it.
6. Leavitt loses her shit
Leavitt absolutely lost her mind in the press briefing, after a reporter refused to nod along to the Trump administration's gaslighting over Renee Good.
Niall Stanage, a columnist for The Hill and journalist for News Nation asked a fairly reasonable question about how the Administration squares claims that ICE always act properly with their having arrested hundreds of US citizens and shot a woman in the face last week.
Leavitt shot back: "Why was she killed?"
Stanage said: "Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably."
At this point Leavitt launched into an unhinged rant, branding the reporter biased.
"You're a left-wing hack," she said. "You're not a reporter. You're posing as a journalist. You shouldn't even be sitting in that seat"
The irony of Leavitt saying this while "reporters" from Fox, Newsmax, Real America's Voice and the My Pillow guy's conspiracy website are welcomed with open arms in the Briefing Room and Oval Office was lost on nobody.
7. There was also this other moment of supreme irony
Leavitt had a pop at protesters in Minnesota for being mean to ICE agents, singling out some who were putting their middle finger - proudly so - at the camera.
God, what uncouth behaviour. So unbecoming of an American citi.... Hang on a minute...