Posted on 09/27/2017 2:07:16 PM PDT by cotton1706
President Donald Trump, frustrated with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Arizona Sen. John McCain, has begun physically mocking them in private, Axios reported on Wednesday.
The president imitates McConnell by slumping his shoulders and looking lethargic, and emulates the dramatic thumbs down McCain used to indicate his "no" vote on the GOP healthcare bill in July.
Trump has repeatedly lashed out both at McConnell and McCain, most recently over Congress's failure to pass legislation repealing and the Affordable Care Act. The president called McCain's recent opposition to the latest incarnation of the GOP healthcare bill a "tremendous slap in the face to the Republican Party," and placed full blame for legislative failure on McCain.
"You can call it what you want, but that's the only reason we don't have it, because of John McCain," Trump said in a radio interview on Monday.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
How exactly does one physically mock another?
I sure wish this stupid perpetually offended crap would stop.
Geesh, this story is ridiculous and unimportant.
I’m pretty sure there is no spy trailing the pres around to report this private stuff-and he can make fun of someone if he wants to- in public or private...
Actually, Trump used those motions to represent someone flustered by a question. He at times represented Cruz, himself, and others in that very same way. The reporter he was accused of mocking actually has limited range of motion, so it didn’t resemble the reporter’s movements at all.
If he’s mocking them in private, how does Business Insider know about it?
Walp, “playing nice” sure hasn’t gotten us anywhere lately, now has it. d:^)
THAT is a stupid headline.
Yeah - coz Obama never did that.
So what the pres is frustrated with a do nothing congress that would rather play politics and personal power bases rather than serve the people and help the United States of America.
They’ve earned it.
He only graduated at all because his daddy was an Admiral.
Never Trumpers....
Sounds good to me.
He’s a funny guy.
Um, they don't give a source.
Not even "unnamed White House insiders."
I guess the idea is that somebody Trump was dining with -- some conservative activist or something -- took the story to Axios, but that's not 100% clear from what he wrote.
"Physically mocking" is a tricky thing.
When somebody tells a story, they're apt to make their voice and gestures and manner resemble a caricature of the person they're talking about.
It may not be fully respectful or reverential or dignified, but it's not necessarily malicious, mocking or cruel. It's just how people tell stories or relate anecdotes.
Exactly HOW would he physically mock them?
Drool in his soup?
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