Trump Lashes Out At McConnell Over ‘Excessive Expectations’ Comments

President Donald Trump speaks during an event about healthcare in the Blue Room of the White House, Monday, July 24, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
President Donald Trump speaks about healthcare, Monday, July 24, 2017, in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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After issuing fiery comments and tweets in response to reports on North Korea advancing its nuclear capabilities Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump trained his ire on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

Trump hit back at McConnell after the Senate leader said that Trump has “excessive expectations” about how quickly Congress can pass legislation:

Trump’s tweet lashing out at McConnell came just a few hours after one of his closest aides, White House social media director Dan Scavino, sent a similar tweet bashing McConnell for making “excuses” for the Senate’s failure to repeal and replace Obamacare this summer.

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  1. Avatar for zsak zsak says:

    Yeah! Kelly’s doing a bang-up job!

  2. Is it the job of the White House Social Media Director to comment of congressional issues?
    What exactly is his function?

  3. Good to see such discipline among the GOP!

  4. The best part is, he’s not even wrong! No amount of messaging or soothing of ruffled feathers can detract from the facts that

    • Trump came into office promising to sign something the GOP house and senate had passed, like, dozens of times

    but

    • Trump promised the moon and torpedoed the process by being a craven dick to everyone in the conversation, making McConnell’s task tremendously harder (good idea pissing on McCain’s service amirite?)
  5. Well, much as I loathe the man and his frigging lying tweets, I do have to admit that he is actually right in this case.

    McTurtle and his band of “morans” had seven years to come up with something and whiffed.

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