President Trump seems to be holding forth from the Oval Office on Thursday afternoon on a variety of his hot-button topics (the president has an abundance of those). One more clip shows the president taking on two Senate Republicans who have been confounding progress on the SAVE America Act: Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senator Lisa Murkowski. Independent journalist Nick Sortor caught the president's comments in an X post.
🚨 President Trump is going HARD after the two RINOs BLOCKING the SAVE America Act — Mitch McConnell and Lisa Murkowski
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) June 11, 2026
Murkowski knows she'd LOSE HER SEAT with the SAVE America Act, as she can't win without rigging.
"Murkowski's TERRIBLE. Terrible to us, terrible to the… pic.twitter.com/fCGtcWiVrU
The X post reads:
President Trump is going HARD after the two RINOs BLOCKING the SAVE America Act — Mitch McConnell and Lisa Murkowski
Murkowski knows she'd LOSE HER SEAT with the SAVE America Act, as she can't win without rigging.
"Murkowski's TERRIBLE. Terrible to us, terrible to the country!"
"Mitch McConnell is a BAD GUY. I thought he was LOUSY at his job. Lousy at his job."
Thank GOD Mitch is gone after this year.
Here's what the president said:
President Trump: I disagreed with him a lot because Mitch McConnell gave so much money to Democrats. He gave them money... had to go get the wall money from the military. I just took it out of the military because that guy wouldn't do anything.
Mitch McConnell is a bad guy. And I thought he was lousy at his job. Lousy at his job. But when they gave him... the only thing they give him a lot of credit for judges, but I'm the one that got the judges. You know why? I won the election. If I didn't win the election, he wouldn't have had any judges. So, yeah...
(Incomprehensible calls from the media)
Question: When will you defund the supplemental (incomprehensible)
Trump: I've done so much for Murkowski. We have the governor right here. Governor, have I done a lot for Alaska? Has there anybody done more for Alaska than me?
Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy: You have been the best president for Alaska in our history, Mr. President. I've said that many times.
President Trump: And Murkowski is terrible to us. Terrible to the country. And you know, I almost feel guilty. I've probably done more for Alaska than any other state. Not because of her, because it's the right thing to do. She's just an impediment. But, she's there. She will probably be a negative vote.
A big part of the argument against the SAVE America Act is that people living in poor areas, as well as people in remote and rural areas, somehow can't obtain identification, even though life in the modern world is almost impossible without it. Princess Lisa Murkowski has stated such a concern about Alaska's Natives.
I'll let a fellow Alaskan respond to that:
Anyway here are my Alaskan Native kids standing next to the Bering sea in the far north and oddly they both have passports and birth certificates because we aren’t helpless retards. pic.twitter.com/LZJeQ7uhhz
— Lu for Alaska (@luinalaska) March 21, 2026
Guess what. Rural people are capable of doing things.
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Now, here's the onion: Mitch McConnell is retiring, but Princess Lisa shows no signs of doing so. And her ability to win elections shouldn't be underestimated. Ranked-choice voting has been a big advantage for her, but she has won without it - including in 2010, when she lost Alaska's then-traditional partisan primary to Joe Miller. What happened? Princess Lisa ran a write-in campaign and won.
We might bemoan her RINO-ishness. But we should not underestimate her.
It's easy to understand President Trump's frustration. The SAVE America Act may be the single most important piece of legislation before Congress this year, and the Senate has been sitting on it. President Trump is far from alone in his displeasure.
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