Trump Tweets From Vacation: ‘Mitch, Get Back To Work’

United States President Donald J. Trump makes remarks to the press prior to having lunch with four veterans of Afghanistan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. In his ... United States President Donald J. Trump makes remarks to the press prior to having lunch with four veterans of Afghanistan in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. In his remarks the President said he was "disappointed" about the GOP failure to pass a healthcare bill and said his plan was to "let Obamacare fail." Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP - NO WIRE SERVICE - Photo by: Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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Keeping the pressure on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), President Donald Trump told the Kentucky Republican to “get back to work.”

Trump is currently at his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, where he is spending a 17-day working vacation.

The Thursday afternoon tweet comes after two days of Trump lashing out against the top Republican for failing to get a simple majority of GOP senators onboard to pass a “skinny” Obamacare repeal bill last month.

The President was apparently responding to comments McConnell made to constituents Monday in Kentucky, where he said that President Donald Trump has “excessive expectations” about how quickly Congress can pass legislation.

On Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning Trump tweeted that he doesn’t think he had excessive expectations because McConnell failed to repeal and replace Obamacare after seven years of saying he would.

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) delivered the final blow to McConnell’s repeal bill last month, joining Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) in their opposition to the plan during a tense, late-night vote.

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  1. Mitch, get back to work and put Repeal & Replace, Tax Reform & Cuts and a great Infrastructure Bill on my desk for signing. You can do it!

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 10, 2017

    That's not official until he pats Mitch on the ass.
  2. Avatar for j.dave j.dave says:

    A Republican clusterf*ck and a distraction from North Korea, all in under 140 characters.

    I’ll take it.

  3. “Tax Reform & Cuts.” That must have slipped through - it is supposed to be described only as “Tax Reform.”

  4. Hey, Mitch, get back and beat that dead horse while I cheat on a golf course.

    by the end of August, Trump will have spent all or part of 53 days in office at leisure, compared with 15 days for Obama through August 2009. What’s more, Trump will have played at least 33 rounds of golf, nearly double Obama’s 17 rounds — and that’s even before Trump gets to his vacation spot, an actual golf course.

  5. Keep it up, you ferret wearing sh%tgibbon!

    It’s not like you need McConnell to get anything done!

    Oh.

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