BREAKING: Trump issues desperate outburst demanding Republicans fire the senate parliamentarian just so he can get money for his stupid ballroom!
In a deranged Truth Social rant, Donald Trump is demanding that Senate Majority Leader John Thune immediately fire Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough– the nonpartisan official who interprets the rules – simply because she keeps blocking his pet projects from sneaking through via budget reconciliation.
Trump raged that MacDonough is a “Radical Left Lunatic” who “treats Republicans horribly” and is a “nasty holdover” from the Obama and McConnell eras. He even invoked Harry Reid, who left the Senate nearly a decade ago.
“Senate Majority Leader John Thune should immediately fire the Parliamentarian, who treats Republicans, and everything that they stand for, horribly!” Trump raged. “She was put there by then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and Barack Hussein Obama, need I say more? She is a nasty holdover from Mitch McConnell.
“She is known as a Radical Left Lunatic that caters to Democrats, and has no respect for Republicans, or Republican Ideology… We have every right to change her, and should do so, IMMEDIATELY!”
Trump never mentions her by name, which we suspect was because he didn’t even want to attempt to spell “MacDonough.” Too many vowels, lol.
He’s furious that MacDonough recently ruled against him on multiple items from his wish list, especially funding for his risible White House ballroom-and-bunker project.
In his usual style, Trump is attacking someone who cares about enforcing basic rules of American governance. Those darn checks and balances that prevent him from ramming through whatever he wants with a simple 51-vote majority.
Trump doesn’t care that the Senate Parliamentarian is supposed to be nonpartisan, or even believe it's possible for someone to not be so ideologically aligned with one position or another that the outcome is all that matters, rules and procedures be damned.
He’s trying to drain the swamp, alright, to Trump that means getting rid of any of the institutional guardrails that prevent immediate implementation of his radical, divisive, and destructive agenda.
Kudos to Ms. MacDonough. She is a footsoldier in the fight against Trump becoming an authoritarian dictator, his life’s final ambition, by rigging the Senate rules.