President Trump Tweets Criticism Directed at Mitch McConnell & Paul Ryan
President Trump attacking members of his own party on Twitter.
FOX’s Jon Decker has more from the White House:
President Trump continued his criticism of the Senate Majority Leader on Twitter, writing, “The only problem I have with Mitch McConnell is that, after hearing Repeal & Replace for 7 years, he failed! That should NEVER have happened!”
Earlier, the President tweeted another message criticizing both McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan over their failure to pass Debt Ceiling legislation.
For his part, McConnell this morning offered mostly praise for President Trump in a speech back home in Kentucky.
At the White House, Jon Decker, FOX News.
I requested that Mitch M & Paul R tie the Debt Ceiling legislation into the popular V.A. Bill (which just passed) for easy approval. They…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 24, 2017
…didn’t do it so now we have a big deal with Dems holding them up (as usual) on Debt Ceiling approval. Could have been so easy-now a mess!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 24, 2017
The only problem I have with Mitch McConnell is that, after hearing Repeal & Replace for 7 years, he failed!That should NEVER have happened!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 24, 2017