Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday slapped down former President Trump’s statement that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” by pointing out Trump appointed hi…

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday slapped down former President Trump’s statement that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” by pointing out Trump appointed his wife, Elaine Chao, who is Taiwanese American, to serve as secretary of Transportation in 2016.

Asked about Trump’s controversial comments, which have drawn comparison to Nazi rhetoric before and during World War II, McConnell pointed out the hypocrisy of the remarks.

“It strikes me that didn’t bother him when he appointed Elaine Chao the secretary of Transportation,” he said.

Chao also served in former President George W. Bush’s Cabinet as secretary of Labor, becoming the first Asian Pacific American woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet.

      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        81·
        11 months ago

        Yeah trump has something of a… preoccupation, shall we say, with Swedes. He’s a bit too enthusiastic about the stereotypical Swedish blond hair/blue eyes thing, if you catch my drift.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
      312·
      11 months ago

      They don’t see whites as immigrants, they only use the word for Brown people. That’s why white people call themselves ex pats, because they’ve been using the word immigrant as a racist dog whistle so long, they don’t want to call themselves that.

    • Hux@lemmy.ml
      13·
      11 months ago

      Whether he’s marrying them or deporting them, he can’t help but make life miserable for immigrants.

  • 800XL@lemmy.world
    71·
    11 months ago

    Moscow Mitch engineered the conditions for this in the first place and didn’t have a problem with it during president drink bleach’s term. Fuck him and fuck his wife too. She could have spoke up to bitch Mitch and had him do something.

    My money is on this just being a stunt in a bigger play. He doesn’t care about her just like “My dead name is Raphael and I identify as Ted” Cruz didn’t do shit when drink bleach talked shit about his wife.

  • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    431·
    11 months ago
    • Donald Trump is the child of an immigrant.
    • Donald Trump Jr is the child of an immigrant.
    • Eric Trump is the child of an immigrant.
    • Ivanka Trump is the child of an immigrant.
    • Barron Trump is the child of an immigrant.
  • Wrench@lemmy.world
    40·
    11 months ago

    He sure didn’t have an issue in 2015 and beyond when Trump was targeting the brown immigrants. Fuck you Mitch

    • tburkhol@lemmy.world
      14·
      11 months ago

      You can read McConnell’s statement as meaning, “Trump doesn’t really mean his racist bullshit, he’s just playing to the crowd.” i.e.: Why would Trump appoint Chao to Sec Transportation if he really believes immigrants are poison? Maybe there’s more context than in the article, but it only looks like a “slam” if you project anti-racist sentiment onto Mitch McConnell, a man who, despite his own wife, has long carried an anti-immigrant flag.

    • ALQ@lemmy.world
      141·
      11 months ago

      Moscow Mitch, the Putin bitch, voting for Putin’s cockholster? I just don’t see it.

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
    18·
    11 months ago

    Well she came from the global elites they also swear to detest, much like Moscow Mitch detested Trump. If they didn’t have double standards they’d have no standards

    • Funderpants @lemmy.ca
      26·
      11 months ago

      It’s almost nothing, almost a defense. They ask him about Trumps racism, and he replies like “Trump didn’t seem racist to me when he hired my wife.” .

      If that’s the best Mitch can do, he’s pathetic.

    • ringwraithfish@startrek.website
      101·
      11 months ago

      None of this rhetoric is new with Trump. This was all out there the first go around. Where was Mitch then? Now that the dog is off his leash and isn’t so useful he’s decided to “say something”. Seems too little too late.

    • cmbabul@lemmy.world
      5·
      11 months ago

      The fact that Trump and his cronies have on more than one occasion made me agree with Mitch McConnell makes me hate them even more than I do for their bigotry and assholery

    • diviledabit@lemmy.world
      8·
      11 months ago

      He’s dog whistling the one-drop rule. His white supremacist base know exactly what he’s talking about.

      • whereisk@lemmy.world
        3·
        11 months ago

        He’s also certain everyone will be talking about it, and any publicity is good publicity. So long as he hogs the limelight he wins. His worst nightmare is not being talked about.