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President Donald Trump delivered his unvarnished thoughts on the subject of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., during a question-and-answer session in the Oval Office shortly after Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was confirmed in the Senate as Health and Human Services secretary.

McConnell was the only Republican in the Senate to vote "no" on Trump's nominee.

"I feel sorry for Mitch. He wanted to go to the end and he wanted to stay leader. He's not equipped mentally," Trump stated. He went on to claim that McConnell staying in leadership would have been the death of the Republican Party, saying, "If I didn't come along the Republican Party wouldn't even exist right now."

The 47th president then claimed that the only reason McConnell – who is 82 and has had many health issues in recent years – stayed in power was because he could raise money. "He gave a lot of money to senators. So he had a little loyalty based on the fact that as a leader you can raise a lot of money."

Trump also suggested that McConnell stayed in that leadership position through contributing campaign money that some GOPers in Congress didn't even want to take.

"Senators would call me and they'd say 'He wants to give me $20-25 million, can I take it?' I'd say, 'Take the money.' So he engendered a certain amount of, I don't even call it loyalty. He was able to get votes."

Trump claims that he himself pushed McConnell out of power in the Senate. "I was the one that got him to drop out of the leadership position. So he can't love me. He's not voting against Bobby [Kennedy], he's voting against me. But that's all right."

And it's clear that McConnell doesn't love Trump. He spoke about his break from president in a primetime interview on "60 Minutes" while promoting a biography he cooperated with. The interview was conducted by Lesley Stahl, the correspondent Trump cited as the reason for his refusal to return to the program.

McConnell's votes against his own party are extraordinarily rare. In data compiled by reporter Gabe Fleisher, only a handful of times has a senator dissented from their own party to vote "no" on cabinet-level confirmations. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, who aligns with Democrats virtually all the time, voted against Russ Feingold and Ron Kirk in the Obama administration, and former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack in the Biden administration.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, voted against Education Secretary Betsy DeVoss and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in Trump's first term. She voted against Pete Hegseth for the role of defense secretary last month.

This makes Mitch McConnell the first senator in history to vote against three cabinet nominees put forward by a single administration. But his obstruction of President Trump's agenda is for naught. All cabinet nominees that have been voted on by the full Senate have so far passed. It remains to be seen which way McConnell will vote on Linda McMahon's confirmation to lead the Department of Education, which Trump wants to significantly reduce or do away with altogether.

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