{"id":117788,"date":"2021-02-04T13:15:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T18:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117788"},"modified":"2021-02-04T13:27:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T18:27:27","slug":"report-joe-biden-wont-tolerate-disrespect-for-mitch-mcconnell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-joe-biden-wont-tolerate-disrespect-for-mitch-mcconnell\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Joe Biden Won\u2019t Tolerate Disrespect for Mitch McConnell"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-joe-biden-wont-tolerate-disrespect-for-mitch-mcconnell%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117788&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe Biden will not tolerate disrespect for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), whose virtuosic talent for wielding political power has earned him a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/mitch-mcconnell-apex-predator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">badass nicknames<\/a>, including &#8220;Cocaine Mitch,&#8221; &#8220;Midnight Mitch,&#8221; and &#8220;Apex Predator.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In yet another example of political journalists having&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/washington-post-opinion-struggle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nothing to write about<\/a>&nbsp;now that Donald Trump is no longer president,&nbsp;<em>Politico<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2021\/02\/04\/takeaways-from-a-head-spinning-night-in-republican-politics-491632?nname=playbook&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&amp;nrid=0000015a-947c-d211-af7f-befec6290000&amp;nlid=630318\">has investigated<\/a> the &#8220;nickname&#8221; situation in the early days of the Biden administration. Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) is &#8220;Your Highness,&#8221; thanks to his status as a key vote in an evenly divided Senate. White House chief of staff Ron Klain is &#8220;Prime Minister Klain,&#8221; presumably because he is the one actually running the country while Biden builds a train station out of Legos.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Satire<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/joe-biden-cocaine-mitch\/\"><strong>Report: Joe Biden Won&#8217;t Tolerate Disrespect for Mitch McConnell<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/washington-post-opinion-struggle\/\"><strong>Washington Post Opinion Columnists Struggle to Accept Reality of Trump&#8217;s Defeat<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/disrupters-2021\/\"><strong>Free Beacon Presents: Political Disrupters to Watch in 2021<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>When&nbsp;<em>Politico<\/em> dared to ask members of the White House staff if they had come up with any nicknames for McConnell, however, the answer was a resounding &#8220;hell no.&#8221; One senior White House official, whose refusal to speak on the record was presumably motivated by fear of ruthless retribution, replied:&nbsp;&#8220;If anyone here called Sen. McConnell anything other than Sen. McConnell, the president would have that person fired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The legend persists.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1289887\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/midnight-mitch-final.jpg\" alt width=\"723\" height=\"841\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden will not tolerate disrespect for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), whose virtuosic talent for wielding political power has earned him a series of badass nicknames, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892638,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,5274,5277,3819,5271,4324],"class_list":["post-117788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-disrespect","tag-mitch","tag-report","tag-tolerate","tag-wont"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}