“Parks and Recreation” star Adam Scott wants Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) team to stop using his image to boost McConnell’s conservative agenda.
Scott told off McConnell on Wednesday after the GOP leader’s 2020 reelection campaign tweeted a GIF of a winking Ben Wyatt, Scott’s “Parks and Rec” character, in response to a report of President Donald Trump declaring he’d fill an empty Supreme Court seat by 2020.
“Dear Mitch McConnell & all those representing him,” the actor tweeted. “Please refrain from using my image in support of anything but your own stunning & humiliating defeat.”
When the Team Mitch account replied with a screenshot of an embarrassing (fictional) headline about (fictional) Wyatt, Scott shot back with a (non-fictional) photo of a (non-fictional) McConnell posing in front of an enormous Confederate flag with a smile.
— Adam Scott (@mradamscott) June 26, 2019
McConnell’s other notable attempt to connect with The Youths was somewhat more successful when his campaign tweeted an image of McConnell plastered on a “Narcos” ad, a reference to GOP West Virginia candidate Don Blankenship calling the leader “cocaine Mitch.”
Love that pic of the turtle and the flag!!!
Back at ya dum ass…
McConnell is deplorable, for sure. But it is most likely his staff of The Usual Idiots, Sycophants, and LowLifes who produce his social media garbage.
Yertle doesn’t carapace…
Poor Adam Scott…He really does seem nice in interviews as himself, but he does kinda have resting snark face. It lends itself to privileged white male memes. Of course, anything is better than resting mitch face.
Glad Adam shot back!
That Mitch pic has to be used in ads and billboards immediately. There are plenty who will cheer Mitch on but more who won’t