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But on Tuesday he returned, firing a remarkable volley not at Democrats or Biden, but at Senator Mitch McConnell, the highest-ranking Republican in Congress.
US President Donald Trump boards Marine One as he leaves the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2021. Image: MANDEL NGAN / AFP
WASHINGTON – With a barrage of blockbuster insults against an insufficiently loyal Republican senator, Donald Trump has warned the United States that he wants to be noticed again. President Joe Biden yawned.
“I’m tired of talking about Donald Trump, I don’t want to talk about him anymore,” he said during a CNN town hall in Wisconsin on Tuesday night.
Trump certainly wants to be talked about.
Since he stormed out of the White House on January 20 and yielded to Biden, he has largely kept to himself.
He spent four years in the White House flooding the world with his thoughts on everything from foreign affairs to golf to morning television, so the silence was deafening.
But on Tuesday he returned, firing a remarkable volley not at Democrats or Biden, but at Senator Mitch McConnell, the highest-ranking Republican in Congress.
McConnell’s sin was to have torn Trump apart in a speech after helping absolve the former president in impeachment last Saturday.
McConnell did not join the seven rogue Republicans who voted with Democrats to condemn Trump for inciting an uprising on Capitol Hill on Jan.6. He stayed true to the party line and in doing so he likely ensured that the number of defectors remained just a trickle.
But having done his duty to Trump, McConnell let go, blaming him for a “shameful breach of duty” and recalling that the mob attacking the Capitol was “carrying their banners … yelling their loyalty at him.”
Trump’s response on Tuesday was wonderful.
“Mitch is a tough, sullen and serious political hacker,” said a statement from Trump’s retirement in Florida.
Continuous.
McConnell was responsible for the Republican disorder in Washington, where just a few weeks ago they controlled the Senate and the White House. McConnell had “begged” for Trump’s support. McConnell’s continued leadership would mean that Republicans “will never win again.”
THAT ‘ANCIENT’
Trump’s explosion certainly caught the attention of the media and Republicans. But if the celebrity-turned-politician had been hoping to topple Biden, reminding the new president that the old one is again shaken and conspiring, it didn’t work out.
During his CNN meeting, Biden completely stuck to his focus on promoting a gigantic $ 1.9 trillion economic stimulus package and vaccinating the country against COVID-19. It’s the same line that he took during last week’s impeachment drama and has actually done so since entering the Oval Office.
The references he made to Trump were noted primarily for their indifference.
The “former guy” called him at one point.
“For four years all that’s been in the news is Trump. In the next four years I want to make sure all the news is from the American people,” Biden said.
So far, the story of two presidents is working better for the new one.
Polls consistently show broad support for Biden’s COOVID relief plans, as well as his job performance.
Trump has a dismal national approval rating, even as he maintains strong backing from staunch Republicans.
And his suggestion to go to war against McConnell and anyone else in Congress who rejects unconditional support casts a shadow over the party’s preparations to fight for control of the legislature in the 2022 midterm elections.
“Mitch McConnell, who worked with Donald Trump, did a great job. Now they are fighting each other. I am more concerned about 2022 than ever,” Senator Lindsey Graham, a Trump loyalist, told Fox News.
“I don’t want to eat ours.”
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