Romney Says Republican Senators Would Laugh Out Loud About Trump Behind His Back

Mitt Romney announced that he won't be seeking a second term in the Senate, and Donald Trump was giddy over the news. But shortly after this announcement, a new book about Romney released an excerpt where Romney says that Republicans in the Senate would routinely laugh out loud about Trump's stupidity behind his back. That's not exactly a comforting thought considering nearly all of those Republicans always went along with his stupid ideas. Farron Cousins discusses Romney's statement.

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Republican Senator Mitt Romney from Utah announced this week that he would not be seeking a second term, which as far as we know right now, basically means that he is retiring, he is done, he's done with politics. It's over going away for good, but he's not going away for good just yet, because Author McKay Coppins actually has a new book about Mitt Romney coming out. And McKay Coppins was kind enough to share a couple of those excerpts with the Atlantic this week. And in those excerpts, Mitt Romney tells him about how Donald Trump would come into the Republican caucus and the Senate, and all the Republicans would cheer for him while he was there. And then as soon as he left the room, they would all laugh out loud at how stupid he is. They'd laugh at his stupid ideas, they'd laugh at the stupid things he says.

They would just laugh at the general stupidity of the then President of the United States. It's a big, old fun thing, right? Like, ha, this guy's so dumb. Alright, let's go vote for every single thing that he wants us to vote for. Now, Mitt Romney is not trying to say that, oh, yeah, we, we laughed at him. So ha ha ha. Mitt Romney is to his credit, pointing out the two-face nature of these Republicans, because they did exactly what I just said. Like we laugh at him behind his back, but then the second he needs something, we're the first ones to line up and say, yes, sir. Master whatever you want. Let me read you perhaps Romney's Most surprising discovery upon entering the Senate was that his disgust with Trump was not unique among his Republican colleagues, almost without exception, he told me, they shared my view of the President in public.

Of course, they played their parts as Trump loyalists often contorting themselves rhetorically to defend the president's most indefensible behavior. But in private, they ridiculed his ignorance, rolled their eyes at his antics, and made incisive observations about his warped toddler like Psyche. Romney recalled one senior Republican senator, frankly, admitting, quote, he has none of the qualities you would want in a president and all of the qualities you wouldn't. One afternoon in March, 2019, Trump paid a visit to the Senate Republicans Weekly caucus lunch. He was in a buoyant mood. Two days later, the Justice Department had announced that the much anticipated report from Special Council Robert Mueller, failed to establish collusion between the Trump campaign in Russia during the 2016 election. As Romney later wrote in his journal, the president was met with a standing ovation fit for a conquering hero, and then launched into some rambling remarks. He talked about the so-called Russia hoax and re-litigating the recent midterm elections and swung wildly from one tangent to another. He declared somewhat implausibly that the g o P would soon become the party of healthcare. The senators were respectful and attentive. As soon as Trump left, Romney recalled the Republican

Caucus burst into laughter. So it was a bit of a mouthful, though there, but I like that Romney is calling these people out, and the fact that this book is about to come out, uh, is, is possibly why Romney's like, Hey, by the way, everybody, guess what? I'm leaving. I'm leaving, and I'm about to trash the hell out of you all before I leave. So I like this. I I like this side of Mitt Romney. I, I don't like many sides of Mitt Romney at all, but, but I like this one because he's absolutely right. And I had talked about this, by the way, for years during the Trump Administration over at Ring of Fire, the fact that the, because there were reports constantly, not just with Republican senators or Republicans in the house, but his own staffers, you know, used to mock him, make fun of him.