When Donald Trump was president, he really picked horrendous people for his cabinet positions. Of of them of course was Mitch McConnell’s Elaine Chao. She was in the same position “Mayor Pete” is in now, US Transportation Secretary. Why did Trump pick her? I guess only he knows. Now, she’s whining to the media about Trump’s name calling. Boo hoo.
Former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao asked media outlets Thursday not to repeat a “racist” comment made repeatedly about her by her onetime boss, former President Donald Trump.
“I think it is very helpful if the media does not repeat that racist tweet,” Chao, who was born in Taiwan and is married to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), told “CNN This Morning.”
“If it were the n-word, or any other word, the media would not repeat it,” added Chao, 69. “But the media continuously repeats his racist taunt. And so, he’s trying to get a rise out of us. He says all sorts of outrageous things, and I don’t make a point of answering any one of them.”
CNN co-host Kaitlan Collins pointed out in response that she had “made a point of not saying” the slur out loud when asking the question but wanted to allow Chao a chance to respond to the 76-year-old former president.
In a Wednesday posting spree on his Truth Social platform, Trump referred to McConnell’s spouse as his “China loving wife” before adding “Coco” to a different spelling of Chao’s last name — a formulation he has used before to mock his former cabinet appointee.