Disgraced, failed, one-term, twice-impeached former president Donald Trump is getting shredded online for outrageous and potentially dangerous remarks he made on social media regarding Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and McConnell’s wife, Elaine Chao, who served as Secretary of Transportation in the Trump administration.
Trump made his attack via his failing social media site, Truth Social, writing:
“Is McConnell approving all of these Trillions of Dollars worth of Democrat sponsored Bills, without even the slightest bit of negotiation, because he hates Donald J. Trump, and he knows I am strongly opposed to them, or is he doing it because he believes in the Fake and Highly Destructive Green New Deal, and is willing to take the Country down with him?
“In any event, either reason is unacceptable. He has a DEATH WISH. Must immediately seek help and advise from his China loving wife, Coco Chow!”
MSNBC host Chris Hayes immediately flagged Trump’s post, commenting:
Kinda seems like the ex-president just posted a death threat aimed at Mitch McConnell…
Others then joined the debate.
Conservative attorney George Conway noted:
“Nothing to see here. Just a former president of the United States seeking to incite violence against the minority leader of the United States Senate and launching a racist verbal attack on the leader’s wife.”
Shanlon Wu, a former federal prosecutor was also outraged by the Trump posting:
“Donald Trump using blatant racist tactics in his desperate attacks on McConnell by trying to ridicule Asian American former Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao’s name calling her ‘Coco Chow’ — [McConnell] and [GOP] should call him out and reject his racist hate — will they do it?
“Hardly shocking that Trump would threaten Mitch McConnell by capitalizing the words ‘death wish’ — dog whistle invitation to Trump’s extremist supporters — same Trump who believed his own VP Pence deserved to be lynched by the angry Jan. 6 mob Trump incited to violence.”