Mitch McConnell called Donald Trump ‘stupid’ and ‘despicable’ in private, biography reveals

Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell attended a campaign rally together in 2019 (Susan Walsh/AP)

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-US president Donald Trump was “stupid as well as being ill-tempered”, a “despicable human being” and a “narcissist”, according to excerpts from a new book.

Mr McConnell made the remarks in private as part of a series of personal oral histories that he made available to Michael Tackett, deputy Washington bureau chief of The Associated Press, for his book The Price Of Power.