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A few weeks ago, Donald Trump would have packaged his anger in short messages of up to 280 characters and would have thrown it out into the world. Since Twitter blocked his account in the first half of January, that is no longer possible. So the former president recently made a statement to the public. It was 600 words long, and Trump must have amassed a lot.
In terms of content, the declaration became a declaration of internal party war. Trump attacks Mitch McConnell, the Republican minority leader in the Senate, in the most violent way. The Kentucky man is a “cranky, grumpy political bungler who never smiles” and a “third-rate leader.” The former president counsels the other Republicans in McConnell’s impeachment chamber: “If the Republican senators back him, they’ll never win again.”
The relationship between the two most powerful men in the party has gone through a series of phases in recent months; Trump’s attack marks the beginning of the most recent. He and McConnell once had a mutually profitable alliance of convenience. The alienation began at the latest when the senator congratulated Joe Biden on winning the presidential election in mid-December. With the violent attack on Congress by Trump supporters on January 6, alienation turned into enmity.
