A source said President Donald Trump slammed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in a phone call held privately on Wednesday morning, Fox News informed.
According to the source, the president displayed a harsh reaction to McConnell’s comments at a Rotary Club speech Monday in his home state of Kentucky where he suggested that the president, given his lack of political experience, suffers from “excessive expectations” about what both chambers of Congress can get done.
The source said that during the phone conversation, the president said bluntly to McConnell that he did not appreciate the criticism and still expects Republican leaders to repeal and replace ObamaCare, even though it has been postponed.
The source added that Trump also told McConnell he is unhappy with U.S. Senator John McCain, who cast a decisive vote against repealing ObamaCare without a replacement in place. McCain, who is battling brain cancer, also slammed the president’s aggressive rhetoric on North Korea this week.
The source said the president mused to McConnell that he does not understand why the majority leader is allowing McCain to keep his powerful chairmanship of the Senate Armed Services Committee after bucking the party.
U.S. Senator John McCain’s chairmanship of the Senate Armed Services Committee came up during a Wednesday phone call between President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a source told Fox News.
The barb-filled phone call between Trump and McConnell – the Senate leader whom the president still needs to shepherd the rest of his legislative agenda – came hours before the president’s Wednesday afternoon tweet expressing more gentle public annoyance over McConnell’s remarks.
“Senator Mitch McConnell said I had ‘excessive expectations,’ but I don’t think so,” the president tweeted. “After 7 years of hearing Repeal & Replace, why not done?”
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