Fox News anchors appeared visibly caught off guard after President Donald Trump unleashed a sharp verbal attack on a reporter, branding him "out of shape" and "disgusting" in response to a routine question about his campaign schedule.

The exchange aired on Fox's America's Newsroom, hosted by Bill Hemmer alongside Martha MacCallum, which rolled footage from the previous day. In the clip, Reuters White House correspondent Jacob Bogage asked the president whether he was canceling a weekend rally in Kansas because he was "sick of traveling." Schedule questions are a familiar feature of the closing stretch of any campaign, when White House correspondents routinely press presidents on travel and pacing. Trump had previously acknowledged the physical toll of his demanding campaign schedule.

When Bogage posed the question, the president showed no amusement. He labeled the reporter "sick" and mocked his appearance. Trump told Bogage he felt perfectly well before pivoting to personal insults.

"You are disgusting. Put yourself in shape. You look like hell," Trump said.

"Whoa," Hemmer said, reacting to the clip with surprise, according to Mediaite.

"Mmmmmm," MacCallum replied, appearing alarmed yet amused, before an awkward silence settled over the set.

"I guess that settles that," Hemmer said, laughing.

Both anchors suggested that the clip, combined with the intensity of the campaign swing, showed Trump was "leaving it all on the field" in the final days before the midterm elections, which fall halfway through a president's term and determine control of Congress.

Hemmer said the president was clearly devoting everything to the campaign, and that Tuesday night — when results begin coming in for the Senate and House races, with every House seat and roughly one-third of the Senate on the ballot — would reveal whether that effort had made a difference. If the polls are correct and margins sit at just two or three points, he suggested, the get-out-the-vote operation could have a significant impact.

MacCallum agreed, noting that most of those races remained anybody's game. She argued that polling had proven unreliable in recent years and that those inaccuracies had to be factored in to get a clearer picture. Whatever the outcome, she said, no one could claim the president had failed to put in full effort.

The Kansas and Iowa rallies were initially canceled but have since been reinstated. Trump said he was skipping Kansas because Sen. Roger Marshall was performing so well — a point Marshall also made, even though recent polls showed him trailing his Democratic opponent, Adam Hamilton.

A White House official confirmed on Friday that Trump had restored the previously canceled rallies in Iowa and Kansas. The official said the president planned back-to-back rallies in Kansas and Iowa on Sunday, alongside nearly 20 tele-rallies — remote events in which the president addresses supporters by phone rather than appearing in person — with the schedule rearranged to accommodate the tele-rallies recently added to Trump's calendar.

On Friday, Trump was also scheduled to campaign in Florida, aiming to energize his supporters in a state he won comfortably in 2024. Democrats have shown relatively strong early voting participation — early voting allows ballots to be cast in person or by mail before Election Day — although registered Republicans were slightly ahead in ballots cast as of Thursday.

The Florida stop will mark his latest visit to a state Republicans generally expect to win, following campaign events earlier this week in Mississippi and South Carolina.