President Donald Trump offered a "revealing" window into his economic messaging ahead of the 2026 midterm elections while speaking with reporters on Air Force One on Sunday, according to one of the pool reporters.

The economy is shaping up to be the top issue in the 2026 midterm elections, and Republicans are quietly urging Trump to spend more time on American jobs rather than foreign affairs, The New York Times reported on Monday. Instead, Trump appears tobe throwing more chaos into the economy by attacking Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

Times reporter Katie Rogers pressed Trump on his economy during the president's recent travel, and what he said to her revealed something surprising.

Rogers said she left with the impression that Trump is not convinced people are suffering. If they are, it's "not his fault," she told the Times.

"It is, far and away, the topic that American voters care the most about," she said, referring to the economy. "It is a major reason that the president was elected a second time. It is what has carried Democrats to victory in some closely watched recent elections. Even Republicans are warning that voters feel that the White House is more focused on international entanglements than American jobs."

"The fact that the president outright dismissed those warnings and then blamed his predecessor — even though this president is a year into his second term — was revealing," she added.

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President Donald Trump appeared confused and evasive when pressed about claims that an ICE agent who fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good is shielded from prosecution, delivering a rambling response that left reporters stunned. The comments followed Vice President JD Vance’s assertion that ICE officers enjoy “absolute immunity,” a claim legal experts say is flatly wrong and contradicted by a Supreme Court ruling. Video evidence showing Good calm and unarmed before being shot undercuts administration claims that she posed a threat, even as Homeland Security officials branded her a “domestic terrorist.” Trump’s deflections — and his contrast with past pardons for Jan. 6 rioters who assaulted police — have fueled outrage and nationwide protests demanding accountability.

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The battle to win the Republican Party nomination to replace the termed-out Gov. Ron DeSantis on the November ballot took an uglier turn as hedge fund CEO James Fishback ramped up his racist attacks on primary frontrunner Rep. Byron Donalds (R).

Donalds, a longtime defender and ally of Donald Trump, holds a commanding lead over Fishback, who is running as an outsider, with the Florida Phoenix reporting the GOP lawmaker holds an overwhelming 76 percent to 6 percent gap among voters with Trump’s endorsement factored in.

That hasn’t kept Fishback from trying to gain notice and make waves with a campaign that appears centered on appealing to the racist faction within the MAGA base.

Responding to an X post that compared photos of Fishback and his partner with Donalds with his wife, Ericka, with whom he has three children, the hedge fund CEO intentionally misspelled the GOP lawmaker’s name and accused him of wanting to turn the state into a “ghetto.”

“By’rone wants to turn Florida into a Section 8 ghetto,” he wrote on X.

The 31-year-old Fishbacks' latest racist smear comes weeks after he accused his primary opponent of being a “SLAVE who was auctioned off for $31 million” to business interests.

According to MS NOW columnist Ja'han Jones, “Fishback doubled and tripled down on his racist slur, telling Florida Politics that Donalds 'has no right to complain' and shouldn’t be offended by the slur because, Fishback said, the representative’s ancestors weren’t enslaved in the United States.”

You can see Fishback’s latest attack here.