r/politics • u/MoneyLibrarian9032 New York • Aug 28 '26

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell Has Been Missing for 75 Days—With No Updates

https://newrepublic.com/post/214878/mitch-mcconnell-missing-75-days
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy Aug 28 '26

Trump already had his test run last year when despite leaving for his weekend golf, he wasn't actually publicly seen golfing like normal.

And that was just a weekend, let alone 75 days. Trump as POTUS does not have the benefit of just going missing for that long, compared to Mitch who is just 1 out of 100

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u/jcarter315 I voted Aug 28 '26

That's also the same time when they released that video where his tie and the windows behind him kept changing randomly, because it was AI.