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.

    • Bunnylux
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      Those immigrants are fine because they’re white (mostly)

      • @[email protected]
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        711 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
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      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      Whether he’s marrying them or deporting them, he can’t help but make life miserable for immigrants.

  • @800XL
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    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
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    • 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.
    • @diviledabit
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      Yes but all of those immigrants are white.

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

    • @EmpathicVagrant
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      Those were proven immigrants that didn’t specifically live in his house, though. It now affects him so it’s important.

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

  • ripcord
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    holy shit he got slammed

    he slammed him

    did you see it

    • @CluckN
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      Mitches feeble shaky old-man hands dropped the damn Chili’s Drink menu on Trump.

  • @Donjuanme
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    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

  • @xc2215x
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    Good to see from Mitch. Not something I say that often.

    • Funderpants
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      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.

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      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.

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

      • @whereisk
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        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.

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    This maybe wouldn’t be an issue if you hadn’t enabled him for so long, Mitch. You knew who he was.

  • @Jackcooper
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    Write a political headline without using the world slam challenge

  • @ObsidianZed
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    Was he also one of those that voted in favor of banning mixed race marriages?