Despite the fact that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has basically done Donald Trump’s bidding by bending over for the president and being the most spineless GOP leader America could ask for, it turns out these two may not be two peas in a pod.
According to a New York Times feature, McConnell and Trump may not get along at all despite the fact that they both seem to be hell bent on destroying our country. Trump and McConnell have both been under intense scrutiny lately over the government shutdown, but that commonality has not brought them closer together.
In the New York Times feature, the report highlights the differences between McConnell and Trump, stating that Trump is practically clueless and McConnell is quite the opposite when it comes to the workings of government. In the piece, Roy Blunt, who heads the Senate Republicans’ policy committee, said:
It would be hard to find two people by personality, or any inclination, that are more diametrically opposed than the president and Senator McConnell. Senator McConnell, very careful and thoughtful about what he says, deeply studied in the history of the country and how the federal government works. The president would not be offended if he heard somebody say he did not spend his time becoming that well versed in those things.”
The report also contained a very interesting tidbit from McConnell’s own wife, who wouldn’t exactly say that the president and her husband got along. When she was asked this question, Elaine Chao apparently took a very long pause before dancing around the question:
When I asked Elaine Chao, who is Trump’s secretary of transportation and McConnell’s wife of 26 years, if Trump and McConnell liked each other, she was silent for a full four seconds before replying, ‘You’ll have to ask the president that, and you’ll have to ask the leader that.’ When I did ask McConnell, all he said was, ‘Yeah, we get along fine.’
Considering that practically no one gets along with Trump, we wouldn’t be surprised if a bromance between McConnell and Trump never happens.
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