NYT: Trump And McConnell Got Into A ‘Profane Shouting Match’ Over The Phone

Is this true? It’s from the New York Times, so it could go either way. But quite honestly, I could see this being true.

As you know, the Senate hasn’t been able to get anything significant done. The biggest fail so far? Their utter inability to repeal or replace Obamacare. That has put a significant strain on Trump’s relationship with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. According to NYT’s report, the two haven’t spoken to each other in weeks. Word has it McConnell is completely losing faith in the President.

The relationship between President Trump and Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, has disintegrated to the point that they have not spoken to each other in weeks, and Mr. McConnell has privately expressed uncertainty that Mr. Trump will be able to salvage his administration after a series of summer crises.

 

What was once an uneasy governing alliance has curdled into a feud of mutual resentment and sometimes outright hostility, complicated by the position of Mr. McConnell’s wife, Elaine L. Chao, in Mr. Trump’s cabinet, according to more than a dozen people briefed on their imperiled partnership. Angry phone calls and private badmouthing have devolved into open conflict, with the president threatening to oppose Republican senators who cross him, and Mr. McConnell mobilizing to their defense.

Basically, their entire relationship is deteriorating.

Yet Mr. Trump and Mr. McConnell are locked in a political cold war. Neither man would comment for this article. Don Stewart, a spokesman for Mr. McConnell, noted that the senator and the president had “shared goals,” and pointed to “tax reform, infrastructure, funding the government, not defaulting on the debt, passing the defense authorization bill.”

Speaking of cold, NYT claims Trump and McConnell got into some sort of nasty, profanity-laced shouting match over the phone.

In a series of tweets this month, Mr. Trump criticized Mr. McConnell publicly, and berated him in a phone call that quickly devolved into a profane shouting match.

 

During the call, which Mr. Trump initiated on Aug. 9 from his New Jersey golf club, the president accused Mr. McConnell of bungling the health care issue. He was even more animated about what he intimated was the Senate leader’s refusal to protect him from investigations of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to Republicans briefed on the conversation.

McConnell is over it.

In offhand remarks, Mr. McConnell has expressed a sense of bewilderment about where Mr. Trump’s presidency may be headed, and has mused about whether Mr. Trump will be in a position to lead the Republican Party into next year’s elections and beyond, according to people who have spoken to him directly.

I think President Trump thought it was going to be so much easier to #DrainTheSwamp. But as it turns out, politics is way pettier than business. People take things way too personally and lose focus on the agenda. I’m not going to lie to you. I’m nervous about the midterms.