Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Karoline Leavitt claimed Donald Trump was joking when he suggested in an interview that the U.S. should do away with the upcoming midterm elections. The White House press secretary insisted the president was talking “facetiously” when he suggested he’d done such a good job in the Oval Office that the November ballot was unnecessary. In a Reuters interview, Trump said: “It’s some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don’t win the midterms.” Read more at The Daily Beast.