{"id":232,"date":"2026-05-22T09:36:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T09:36:41","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-just-blasted-donald-trump-and-people-are-shocked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Mitch McConnell just blasted Donald Trump \u2014 and people are shocked"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Donald Trump was just harshly criticized by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has served the president faithfully as his Senate Majority Leader.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMcConnell bringing the heat after Blanche meeting with Senate GOP today,\u201d Burgess Everett, Semafor congressional bureau chief, reported Thursday on X, citing McConnell saying: \u201cSo the nation\u2019s top law enforcement official is asking for a slush fund to pay people who assault cops? Utterly stupid, morally wrong \u2013 Take your pick.”<\/p>\n

This is not McConnell\u2019s first open departure with the president he previously assisted in major policy matters, from avoiding conviction during his impeachment to appointing pro-Trump judges throughout the judiciary.<\/p>\n

Last month, McConnell wrote an op-ed for Fox News that scathingly criticized Trump and others in the GOP for their admiration of outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n’s<\/p>\n

“[For] the better part of a decade, Hungarian politics has persisted as an object of intense fascination in certain corners of the American right,” McConnell observed. “This phenomenon is endlessly puzzling. America\u2019s self-proclaimed national conservatives spoke of Orb\u00e1n’s\u2019s Hungary as an oasis of traditionalism amid the wasteland of an ailing, liberal and decadent postmodern Europe. And some American politicians appear to have bought into the myth.”<\/p>\n

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He added, “To be clear, it is a myth. Orb\u00e1n’s\u2019s champions on this side of the Atlantic may well consider his illiberal court-packing, crony capitalism or restriction of free speech an acceptable price for their desired social utopia. Yet for all the talk of reviving faith and family through statist intervention, Hungary\u2019s religious participation and birth rates under his rule have declined right alongside the rest of the West.” He claimed that Orb\u00e1n’s administration was based less on competence than on the “fawning servitude to authoritarians,” which McConnell argued runs “counter to American values.”<\/p>\n

He concluded, “Watching this from Kentucky, it is hard to understand how some on the American right thought that staking U.S. influence on the outcome of a parliamentary election in a small, central European country was putting America\u2019s interests first. To the extent that what happens in Hungary matters to America, it is a question of whether its actions on the world stage \u2014 not its social policies \u2014 align with America\u2019s strategic interests.”<\/p>\n

Because of McConnell\u2019s criticisms of Trump, the Republicans running to replace him as he prepares to retire have all distanced themselves from their former doyen. All three of the candidates criticized McConnell for his open breaches with Trump, even though two of the candidates had direct ties to McConnell in terms of their own careers.<\/p>\n

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