Mitch McConnell Says Trump Win Puts Americans In A 'Very Dangerous World

[FightFight]

Source: huffpost

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reportedly said that President-elect Donald Trump’s victory puts Americans in “a very, very dangerous world,” stressing that he plans to spend his final two years in the Senate pushing back against the growing Trump-fueled isolationism within the GOP.

The 82-year-old Kentucky Republican, who last month stepped down from his role as the longest-serving party leader in Senate history, has a complicated record with the incoming president. While McConnell has worked to significantly move the country to the right — much of it under the first Trump administration — he is no fan of Trump and his isolationist worldview that’s spreading throughout the Republican Party.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-trump-americans-dangerous-world_n_675a09cae4b02802b83c4117

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4. Republican presidents added 2.5 times more to the national debt than Democratic presidents

5. The two times the economy steered into the ditch (Great Depression and Great Recession) were during Republican, laissez faire administrations

**Why Are Republican Presidents So Bad for the Economy?**
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**During the final 3 years of Barack Obama's presidency 2014. 2015 . 2016 , the number of jobs added was 1.5 million greater than the number added during Trump's first 3 years in office 2017 2018 2019** https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/obama-created-more-jobs-trump

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**Trump to leave office with the worst jobs record since Herbert Hoover** https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-leave-office-worst-jobs-030044152.html

Trump will be first president since WWII to lose jobs during tenure. The U.S. lost 140,000 jobs in December 2020 in the final jobs report of Trump’s presidency. This means the nation has about 3 million fewer jobs than it did 4 years ago UNDER THE BLACK GUY --OBAMA, meaning Trump will be the first president to lose jobs over his term since employment data was collected in this way. NBC News Now correspondent Simone Boyce explains how it all unfolded.

https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/trump-will-be-first-president-since-wwii-to-lose-jobs-during-tenure-
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The Trump tax cuts will pay for themselves he said

Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years The “King of Debt” promised to reduce the national debt — then his tax cuts made it surge. Add in the pandemic, and he oversaw the third-biggest deficit increase of any president. https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump
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Republican tax cuts are the driving force behind the country’s worsening fiscal outlook.
If not for the Bush tax cuts and their extensions — as well as the Trump tax cuts — revenues would be on track to keep pace with spending indefinitely, Instead, these tax cuts have added $10 trillion to the debt since their enactment and are responsible for 57 percent of the increase in the debt ratio since 2001

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gop-tax-cuts-driving-us-160437971.html

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Stated on July 23, 2019 in a tweet: "Reagan took the deficit from $70 billion to $175 billion. Bush 41 took it to $300 billion. Clinton got it to zero. Bush 43 took it from zero to $1.2 trillion. Obama halved it to $600 billion. Trump’s got it back to a trillion." https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/29/tweets/republican-presidents-democrats-contribute-deficit/

[surfered]

1. You could have impeached him, but too late now

[Hope22]

4. Not sure where he gets the balls to make that statement?

His kids , grands and greats will get the same world. Jokes on him!

[stollen]

46. Mitch can't conceive of the queue there will be at his headstone

Everyone in line will be holding a cup of "water."

[raccoon]

55. "Holy" water, surely it must be. LMAO

[maxsolomon]

68. Minor point, but it's convicted.

House impeaches, Senate convicts.

You're correct, but I'm glad McConnell intends to curb the crazy. Most of the Repuke Senate won't.

[Arger68]

2. Gee Mitch, if only there was some way

you could have prevented this. Like if he'd been impeached you could have voted to remove him from office, and used your clout as leader to convince a few other senators to do the same thing.

[Blue_Tires]

3. Fuck McConnell

More than anyone, he laid the foundation of subverting political norms that allowed Trumpism to germinate, become a reality, and spread around the world unchecked like a cancer...

He gets zero fucking credit for speaking out this late in the game...

[chicoescuela]

29. Yep, F McConnell. I hope he lives a long miserable life. Not that I'm vindictive or anything.

[C0RI0LANUS]

5. Impeaching Trump? That ship sailed away long ago, "Mr. Senior Senator Republican Man!"

[Hope22]

8. R's don't have the brains to run an impeachment trial. n/t

[DeeDeeNY]

57. Unless it's impeachment of a Democrat like Clinton

For sex

[Hope22]

66. The quality of representation the R's have been sending to DC is sub par.

They couldn’t even scrape together a successful impeachment team for President Biden. They are the party of tearing down, waiting for the Dems to suggest plans or laws and then the r’s employ a plan of destruction. They couldn’t even get it right appointing a house speaker. Zero brain power available ‘on the bench’ so to speak.

[Hekate]

6. Too late to save your soul, Mitch. Take it up with the Grim Reaper.

[Hope22]

7. Said man $issing on a fire he lit with gasoline and a fart!!

[magicarpet]

9. Well Moscow Mitch hou missed two opportunities to kick his ass out on the first and second impeachments.

You let djt slip on by two times and wiggle off the hook. Now we will be revisited by the hauntings of this nightmare once again.

You could have put the word out back then that the Tangerine Traitor should be impeached and many ReThugs would have followed your advice after you explained to them how dangerous djt was to American Democracy.

Too late,... now we are fucked.

THANKS FOR NOTHING !

[brush]

10. STFU, McConnell. You had your chance to impeach/convict him twice so he....

couldn't run for president again. You blew those chances yet you voted for him again last month.

Again, STFU and retire. You've done so much damage the nation you belong in the same despicable collection of nation destroyers as confederates.

[elleng]

11. Want A Better Economy? History Says Vote Democrat*

[Autumn]

12. Fuck this old bastard. HE fucking gave trump that power.

SOb

[Cirsium]

25. It is all too bizarre

Fetterman and Blumenthal go full MAGA on us, and McConnell declares himself to be opposed to MAGA. WTAF?

[33taw]

13. What a POS.

[dhol82]

14. WTF? He suddenly woke up?

Geezus, now, NOW, he wants to oppose?

[Progressive dog]

15. Yeah, and you helped Trump win, Mitch

Your will be remembered for supporting Trump not for your cheap words.

[Irish_Dem]

16. Mitch nothing will save your soul, which is damned for all eternity.

Nice try, but crocodile tears won't work now.

[no_hypocrisy]

17. Too little, too late Dr. Frankenstein!

[JMCKUSICK]

18. This is gonna come across as really harsh but...

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Why is it, that every Republican voter knows Dems want to change your kids sexuality during recess but nobody knows all those statistics?

Yes, part of it is the right wing noise machine, but the real truth is that Dems have only been saying stuff that "polls well" vs pounding the shit out of these stats!

[PortTack]

19. He still holds power. Not defending him, but I'll gladly take anyone's help that will push back against tsf

[wnylib]

38. He won't push back. He's all talk and no action regarding Trump.

Besides, McTurtle is a decrepit old has been. Nobody in his party would listen to him, even if he really did mean what he said.

The only time that McTurtle actually follows through on anything is when he promotes reducing the Republican deficit by cutting Democratic programs. He gets a special kick out if it if the programs that get cut leave even more people without food and health care.

McTurtle's soul is as evil as TSF's.

[2naSalit]

20. No fucking shit, mitch...

Thanks for getting us here, you fucking louse. Hurry up and fall off the planet.

[Botany]

21. Fuck you Mitch you were given proof of Trump's

... ties to Russia in 2016 and you worked to hide that from the American People and have
consistently blocked any work on the current voting systems.

[Cirsium]

22. Oh really?

I would say that Senator Mitch McConnell's coddling and enabling of Donald Trump has put Americans in a very, very dangerous world.

[Susan Calvin]

23. Ya think?

[boonecreek]

24. Trump says tax cuts

will pay for themselves. Still trying to push that Laffer curve nonsense that claims as taxes are reduced revenue increases. I know that's idiotic and I suck at math. I remember Al Franken saying by that logic if we did away with taxes altogether revenue would go through the roof.

[CentralMass]

26. Mitch enabled the Mango Malefactor every step of the way. Consider tRump to be your lasting legacy.

[Dave Bowman]

27. Dear Mitch, FOADIAF.

🤬🖕

[CousinIT]

28. I love all the economic links. Bookmarking. I will refer to this again and again. N/t

[thucythucy]

30. I think the name "McConnell" should become America's "Quisling."

Quisling was the Norwegian former minister of defense who conspired with Hitler and sold his country to the Nazis. Ever since then his name has been synonymous with "traitor."

I think "McConnell" should be the American equivalent. A man who did more than anyone to dismantle American democracy. A McConnell should now be synonymous with anyone seeking to destroy what's left of our democracy for his own aggrandizement.

Just a thought.

[NotHardly]

31. That must have been one hell of a fall yesterday.

[3catwoman3]

32. Jesus H! Talk about a day late and a dollar short.

Why now?

[Mrsfiddlegirl]

33. Prescient

During Hillary's run for president my late 96 year old mother warned me and stated emphatically that the most dangerous man in America was... Mitch McConnell.

She sure was right, wasn't she? RIP Libby. I'm glad you have joined the choir invisible and don't have to live through this constitutional tragedy.

[EuterpeThelo]

36. Hugs to you and your late mama

I feel the same about my mom, who passed in mid-2021 and had worked tirelessly writing 4,000 postcards to voters from 2017 to 2020. We went to marches throughout the orange menace's first reign of terror with me pushing her in a wheelchair, starting on inauguration day when it POURED rain here in L.A. as if the sky had opened up and was crying for us all. January 6 was bad enough to have to watch her endure. This betrayal by our idiot countrymen (and women) would be a bridge too far.

[LudwigPastorius]

34. If you really believe that, Turtle Boy, then...

block his cabinet picks and judges.

What a disingenuous bastard.

[NoMoreRepugs]

35. But but but - wasn't it a concern this last election the economy under a Democratic Administration?

[mahina]

37. If only there was something he could've done about this to save Americans from these

Dangers.

[djacq]

39. Fuck Mitch McConnell!

Mitch had one chance to stop Trump during the January 6 impeachment and he screwed America.

[dchill]

40. FUCK. THAT. GUY.

[COL Mustard]

41. Little late there, Bitch...er, Mitch

You and your cowardly colleagues had the perfect opportunity in January 2021 to end this nightmare. Instead you showed your true character and screwed the rest of us. Enjoy Hell, because that's where you're headed.

[AverageOldGuy]

42. Memo to Mitch:

Kiss my ass. I hope you die a miserable death.

[Rebl2]

43. McConnell

You had every opportunity to stop this bastard trump from destroying our country and economy, but you sat there and did nothing. F you.

[Jack Valentino]

44. The turtle son-of-a-bitch endorsed the orange son-of-a-bitch...

Trying to have things both ways, again?? WTF worthless Mitch!

[kevinore]

45. I'll put this as politely as I can...

Moscow Mitch made sure trump stayed in office by not doing his job...twice. Mitch supported trump in 2024. Mitch has done nothing to fix the situation he helped to create. Moscow Mitch should do to himself what he has been doing to this country.

[Journeyman]

47. Wow. If only there was something McTurtle could have done once or twice to remove Trump from public office . . .

[Figarosmom]

48. That 's rich

Geez. - he's not that dense.

[cstanleytech]

49. Go fuck yourself you Putin bitch I say to Mitch.

[Old Crank]

50. Mitch. Crawl back under your rock.

You did everything you could to get him elected. Now you change your stripes. Are you voting against his horrible cabinet picks? Lets see some action.

[elleng]

51. ' he plans to spend his final two years in the Senate pushing back against

the growing Trump-fueled isolationism within the GOP.'

Will be interesting, even FUN watching McTurtle helping Dems, NATO, and U.S. electorate!!!

NO KIDDING, really COULD be fun!!!

[usonian]

52. Mitch is the composer, conductor, prompter and prima donna of this nazi opera.

Götterdammerung can't come soon enough for them.

Nazi swine into the Rhine.

[Ray Bruns]

59. I hate Illinois nazis

[Scrivener7]

53. Fucking asshole. You put him there Mitch. This is on you.

Plus, in 2 weeks he'll be kissing trumps ass. AGAIN!

[Dem2theMax]

54. The one thing that comes to my mind after reading this.

[raccoon]

56. I regret that I have only one rec to give to this wonderful post.

And as for Turtlehead: Whoever said "talk is cheap" was a genius.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

58. You could have stopped him Moscow Mitch

[mdbl]

60. Moscow Mitch oozes hypocracy from every pore

Disgusting human - if he is human.

[Javaman]

61. too late turtle. you got us here. go peddle your afterthoughts somewhere else.

we all knew what was coming, you piece of shit.

[Fullduplexxx]

62. So says the a****** who protected him

[JohnnyRingo]

63. Amazing what happens to republicans when the shackles come off.

They have astounding conversions on their way out the door.

[Bengus81]

64. Correct...years later after leaving the Senate Bob Dole thought

that everyone in America should have access to affordable health care. A complete 180 from when Hillary Clinton was trying to do so when she was first lady.

[Linda ladeewolf]

65. Mitch McConnell

Could have stopped what’s coming. Merrick Garland could have stopped what’s coming. The news media could have stopped what coming. There is a lot of blame to go around. None seemed willing to give a damn about people, just money.

[Martin68]

67. "Trump Win Puts Americans In A 'Very Dangerous World." So says the man who paved the way for Trump in the first place.

[EllieBC]

69. Too late, Mitchell.

You had plenty of time. You did nothing.

[tavernier]

71. You asked for him

You got him.

Toy Putin!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

72. Why Mitch McConnell's latest clashes with Trump matter

Despite his recent partisan history, Mitch McConnell has thrown a lot of brushback pitches in Donald Trump's direction lately.
https://bsky.app/profile/stevebenen.com/post/3ldgr2fa5v22m

I'm not getting my hopes up, but Mitch McConnell really has thrown a surprising number of brushback pitches in Trump's direction lately.

Link to tweet

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/mitch-mcconnells-latest-clashes-trump-matter-rcna184354

In a statement to NBC News, the Kentucky Republican — who’ll soon step down from his GOP leadership post — didn’t mention Kennedy by name, but the longtime senator said anyone seeking a confirmation vote must be specific about their intentions related to the polio vaccine.

“Anyone seeking the Senate’s consent to serve in the incoming Administration would do well to steer clear of even the appearance of association with such efforts,” McConnell wrote. He added that “efforts to undermine public confidence in proven cures are not just uninformed — they’re dangerous.”

It was a notable brushback pitch from a key GOP official, but it was also part of a recent pattern: McConnell has thrown a lot of these pitches at Trump and his team lately.

In an interview with the Financial Times, published last week, McConnell warned about the dangers of isolationism, which he seemed to tie directly to his party’s incoming president. “We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before World War II,” the senator said, adding, “Even the slogan is the same. ‘America First’ — that was what they said in the ’30s.”
McConnell has a newly published essay in Foreign Affairs magazine, warning against the “right-wing flirtation with isolation and decline.” Referencing a signature phrase from Trump, the Kentucky Republican added, “America will not be made great again by those who simply want to manage its decline.”
The senator’s written piece echoed a speech he delivered earlier this month, rejecting his party’s isolationist wing.
In Congress last month, Matt Gaetz’s bid to become the next attorney general collapsed in the face of opposition from GOP senators. While there was no official tally on the scope of the Republican opposition to the former Florida congressman, The New York Times reported that McConnell was among those staunchly opposed to his prospective nomination.

When political observers take stock on Capitol Hill, looking for Republicans who might be a thorn in the president-elect’s side, they tend to focus on members such as Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Maine’s Susan Collins. But what if McConnell — who’s expected to retire at the end of his term, and who doesn’t appear to have anything to lose by standing up to Trump — unexpectedly joins the faction of Trump skeptics?