CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins appeared to needle President Donald Trump on Thursday night, airing a supercut that juxtaposed the president's boasts about his tireless campaigning with his decision to cancel the final two rallies of the 2026 midterm season — one day after Trump lashed out at a Reuters reporter over a similar line of questioning.

The earlier exchange came when reporter Jacob Bogage asked whether the president was calling off a campaign rally in Kansas for Republican Sen. Roger Marshall because he was tired of traveling. Trump snapped: "Oh, you're sick to ask that question. You are sick."

He went on to insult Bogage, calling him "disgusting" and "way out of shape."

"You've been following me for two weeks. I feel perfect. You are disgusting. Put yourself in shape. You look like hell," Trump said before storming off.

Collins framed the montage by pointing to the discrepancy between that reaction and the president's own record: "Now, that reporter from Reuters … asked a straightforward question about the president's schedule, and he got an irritated answer, as you heard there, especially given it's the president himself who has touted his own ability to maintain a busy schedule."

The supercut then replayed Trump's recent comments on the campaign trail:

"It is so — the one thing I can say is that no president has ever worked so hard on a midterm," Trump said at a recent rally in South Carolina.

"Nobody's ever campaigned like I have for midterms," he insisted at a Monday rally in Mississippi.

"I've been doing this stuff for a week and a half, two weeks," Trump said at a Tuesday presentation in Lubbock, Texas, adding, "I did more rallies than I've ever done for myself."

"You know, I've done 26 of them now," he boasted that same Tuesday in Corpus Christi, Texas.

"I have worked very hard," Trump told Fox News in a recent interview. "I've done 14 rallies in nine days. And that's a lot."

"I'm going to Georgia, but, uh, it's a strain on your voice," he said Saturday in Palm Beach, Florida. "It's a strain, you know. It's not normal."

"I'm doing something different," Trump said in October. "I'm working like a dog."

Collins noted that canceling the final two rallies of the 2026 midterms stands out for another reason: in the final 72 hours before the 2018 midterms, Trump held back-to-back rallies in Montana, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri. At the time, he told his team he wanted to be on the road as much as possible in those closing days as voters cast their ballots to help Republicans.

"Tonight, sources say, though, that some Republican officials are relieved by the president's decision to cancel those final two rallies," Collins reported. "One top Republican official told my colleague, Jeff Zeleny, 'thank God he hasn't moved the needle anywhere,' and a second official assuring 'everyone who has seen the president who wants to see him.'"

Even Marshall, on whose behalf the president was expected to campaign, appeared indifferent to the scrapped plans, saying: "I think that my doing so well in the polls that he's got probably got better places to spend his time."

"Now, we don't have insight into the senator's polling, but a brand-new CNN poll actually found that Marshall's race is still very close," Collins remarked, citing a survey that showed Democrat Adam Hamilton outpacing Marshall by four points, at 49 percent to 45 percent.

The tight margin points to the larger stakes of the season: midterm elections determine control of Congress, and Senate seats are decided in individual statewide contests, so competitive races like Kansas's factor into the chamber's balance of power.

"If there's been a surge in [Marshall's] numbers, we have not seen it materialize yet in the polling," Collins said.

Whether the president adds replacement campaign stops in the race's final days remains an open question as both parties make their closing arguments to voters.

Watch the full segment: https://youtu.be/6JMaYjB74vU