One of the things that people miss the least about Donald Trump was the incessant second-grade need to “brand” everyone with a widdle’ nickname, “Crooked Hillary,” “Cryin’ Chuck Schumer,” and “Crazy Nancy” just to throw out a few examples without sending people back to their therapist short of breath and in PTSD. Of course, the MAGAs have gotten nothing but MAGier in the meantime, but we have moved beyond that kind of humiliation sent out into the world.

Or at least we had.

Yesterday, Congressional leaders met at the White House to discuss infrastructure among other things and that meant that Mike McCarthy had to actually do something for once beyond simply talking tough and obstructing everything, which to this point, is all McCarthy had been asked to do. Well, that, fundraise and kick Cheney to the curb to please Trump.

No one expected McCarthy to suddenly change his tone and start talking about Biden’s great leadership just moments after the meeting, but no one expected him to revert straight to Trump, either. Yes, McCarthy brought back the “nicknames,” sounding more pathetic than ever, trying to please the teacher, a blogger down in Florida. To top it off, he even invited people to send him money!

.@GOPleader campaign auto text after bipartisan leaders meeting with Biden… pic.twitter.com/uyhatAp3e3

— Elizabeth Crisp (@elizabethcrisp) May 12, 2021

Now, of course, that would be bad enough, “Corrupt Joe Biden,” who also goes by the name of President Joe Biden. But right about the same time, the White House released a statement, and that same President Joe Biden runs the White House, so the statement sounded a little different. The White House’s statement was commensurate of what the world would dearly hope would come out of the White House:

Here is the White House readout of the bipartisan meeting with the Big 4, Biden and Harris today. pic.twitter.com/RpdSsq9BRf

— Elizabeth Crisp (@elizabethcrisp) May 12, 2021

The president expressed appreciation for the important priorities on which the parties had been able to work together so far, and that he wants to work diligently to build on those…

Of course, when McCarthy had to speak to reporters and sound like an adult, he said: “I felt our meeting was very strong. We talked about infrastructure. I think there’s a place that we can find bipartisanship…we first have to start with a definition of what is infrastructure.”

But that wasn’t the message to the MAGAs. “Corrupt Joe Biden and his socialist…!!!!!” So very typical.

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Jason
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