"We have some great Republicans, and we have some bad ones," Trump told Tuesday's "The Michael Savage Show" podcast, pointing first and foremost in the latter category at Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
"Mitch is a bad leader; he always has been," Trump continued to explain to host Michael Savage in an exclusive interview. "I could have told you that a long time ago."
Trump pointed to the difficulty in getting the border wall going, a signature guarantee in the first 2016 presidential campaign, which then-Senate Majority Leader McConnell was a monkey wrench in.
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"We would have had the wall a lot sooner if I didn't have the problem of him, and Paul Ryan was a problem," Trump went on . "They said, 'oh, we'll get it next year.
"Next year came along and they didn't produce it, and I had to get it through all sorts of legal challenges. It took me 2 1/2 years of winning lawsuits."
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Though notwithstanding mainstream media speculation Trump might need to run as a third-party candidate in a future presidential election, Trump honestly believes in the strength and depth of the GOP outside of a few "bad ones," announcing a change in leadership can make the GOP great again – "amazing" even.
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"The Republicans, we do have great people also, and I will say if we had leadership, this party would be amazing," Trump concluded.
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"But Mitch is not a good leader; he's just a survivor. He's a good survivor, but he's not a good leader."
Furthermore, Trump reportedly took aim, again, at Sen. Mitch McConnell, this time in an interview for a book in which he is quoted as calling the former Senate majority leader "a stupid person."
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The remarks were published in an excerpt from the book "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year," due out Tuesday, which was published on Vanity Fair's website Monday. The interview was conducted by the book's authors, journalists Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker, in late March at Trump's Florida home, Mar-a-Lago.
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“He’s a stupid person,” Trump is cited as speaking of the Kentucky Republican. “I don’t think he’s smart enough.”
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The former president further reportedly announced that McConnell is a "knucklehead" and has “no personality” throughout the interview for the book. In the published excerpt, he specifically calls out the senator for not eliminating the filibuster in the U.S. Senate during the Trump presidency and for not convincing Democratic West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin to flip political parties.
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