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GOP Congressman Compares Donald Trump To Forrest Gump

[The Maven] One of the President’s congressional defenders has privately decided he hates Trump and wants to unload.

“If we’re going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherf**ker,” said the congressman as we roamed the aisles of a Safeway grocery store together.

I haven’t been in a Safeway since my family moved home from Dubai in 1990. The congressman did not want to be seen with me on Capitol Hill. He needed to get some stuff anyway and decided he’d let me walk with him through the cereal and dairy selections at the Safeway near my hotel.

He is not happy with President Trump.

He was never a die hard Trump supporter. He supported him in the general and never expected him to win. But he did.

So the congressman, whose district Trump won, has been a regular supporter on Fox News and elsewhere defending the President. He is happy to be quoted, so long as I don’t name him. He says he just needs to vent. I suggest what we’re doing is one of the reason’s Trump won — a congressman says nice things in public and bad things in private.

“Everybody does this sh*t,” he says. It’s his turn. We have known each other for years and have been promising to connect this week while I’m passing through DC. So this is it. I’m passing along his comments, not endorsing them.

“I read you writing about this, about wanting to say nice things when you can and criticize when you need to. He may be an idiot, but he’s still the President and leader of my party and he is capable of doing some things right,” he says before conceding it’s usually other people doing the right things in the President’s name.

“But dammit he’s taking us all down with him. We are well and truly f**ked in November. Kevin [McCarthy] is already circling like a green fly circling sh*t trying to take Paul’s [Ryan] job because nobody thinks he’s sticking around for Nancy [Pelosi]. She’s going to f**k up the cafeteria again too. [Lord’s name in vain], at least I’ll probably lose too and won’t have to put up with that sh*t.” He won’t lose. His district is very Republican.

What’s the problem, though? Well, get ready…

“It’s like Forrest Gump won the presidency, but an evil, really f*cking stupid Forrest Gump. He can’t help himself. He’s just a f**king idiot who thinks he’s winning when people are b*tching about him. He really does see the world as ratings and attention. I hate Forrest Gump. I listen to your podcast and heard you hate it too. What an overrated piece of sh*t movie. Can you believe it beat the Shawshank Redemption?”

We deviated to Stephen Spielberg for a moment and I had to remind him Robert Zemeckis, not Spielberg, directed it. Then I had to point out his taste in coffee sucks and suggested better. Moving right along…

“Judiciary is stacked with a bunch of people who can win re-election so long as they don’t piss off Trump voters in the primary. But if we get to summer and most of the primaries are over, they just might pull the trigger if the President fires Mueller. The sh*t will hit the fan if that happens and I’d vote to impeach him myself. Most of us would, I think. Hell, all the Democrats would and you only need a majority in the House. If we’re going to lose because of him, we might as well impeach the motherf**ker. Take him out with us and let Mike [Pence] take over.

At least then we could sleep well at night,” he said before going off on a tangent about how the situations with Russia and China scare him.

Then, “You know having Mike as President would really piss off all the right people, too. They think they hate Trump. Mike is competent,” at which point he sighs and laments that there were, in his mind, more than a dozen competent choices in 2016.

So the implication is they wouldn’t vote for impeachment if they might be opposed in primaries, I asked. He confirmed he does not think the votes are there to impeach the President if any of the Judiciary Committee members are facing primary opponents. But get through that and, if Mueller is fired, he thinks so and thinks a majority of the House would vote to impeach President Trump.

“I say a lot of sh*t on TV defending him, even over this. But honestly, I wish the motherf*cker would just go away. We’re going to lose the House, lose the Senate, and lose a bunch of states because of him. All his supporters will blame us for what we have or have not done, but he hasn’t led. He wakes up in the morning, sh*ts all over Twitter, sh*ts all over us, sh*ts all over his staff, then hits golf balls. F*ck him. Of course, I can’t say that in public or I’d get run out of town.”

The congressman’s base loves the President. And we’re done. He feels better having let it all out. It was a funny conversation with a few additional remarks about the President’s personal life I dare not print.

And yes, I agree, it is bad form to say all this in private while publicly praising the President. Welcome to Donald Trump’s Washington. Everybody does this sh*t here.

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[Optional] What does President Trump need to do to help Republicans keep control of the House and Senate? Will he succeed? Please keep your comments on topic and civil.

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  1. RogueEconomist says

    Please let this be Pete King (NY-02). One of the candidates running for the Dem nomination in that district is one of the most passionate, hard-working progressive I have ever known.

    I would give my eye teeth to watch Liuba Shirley kick Pete King’s terrorist-supporting *.

  2. Blondenycblonde says

    I saw the guesses for Peter King (NY), but although the language sounds like it could be him, the article says that he’s from a district that strongly supports Trump, so can’t be him. I assume the fact that they were talking in a Safeway might be a clue? Doesn’t sound like he’s from the east coast – might be someone from the South who’s not very well known since he might be recognizable in public? Might be grasping at straws here…

  3. RadioMarty says

    The Safeway mentioned has to be the “Social Safeway” in Northwest DC.

    Congressman could be any Repub.

  4. FickleFingerOfFate says

    I cosign on the Peter T. King of NY guess. I love what he said about that walking case of liver cirrhosis Steve Bannon.

  6. TNSunny says

    Paul Ryan with news today of his retirement. The little weasel may hate Trump but Republican voters hate Paul Ryan far more.

  8. scumby says

    it’s pathetic pond scum like this congressman why Trump is President we have had it with both parties and the us versus them mentally. Obamacare is costing us big money for health insurance we can’t afford to use.

  9. amagod121 says

    I’d say Ryan but he’s retiring. I am appalled by this man’s two-faced behavior. We who voted Republican in the last Presidential election voted Trump in because he was the ONLY candidate against amnesty, for border protecion, against huge trade deals like NAFTA, etc. Everyone else wanted the exact opposite. For the record, I hope this numpty Congressman does lose his job!

  11. firefly nights says

    Wow, wow, wow, wow!
    This is the most epic thing I’ve read in a long time.

    It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so terrifying. More drama than all the gossip magazines combined!

  12. luna lee says

    Lyndsey Graham, SC is my guess because he occasionally lets his real feelings about Trump show in the occasional carefully worded anti-Trump comment and then goes back to being another Stepford lackey.

    If the GOP are to be successful they will have to continue to gerrymander, suppress minority voters, and rely on their Russian bot and hacker friends for another assist.

  13. jenvies says

    If this congressman can’t stand up for what he knows to be right, he can go too.
    Ironically, Forrest will drain the swamp.

    We need some smart young people to take over.

  14. Jelly Drop says

    Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.)?
    Trump needs to swing back vocal support. Be nice. Be humble. Praise others. Here where i live (Aus), if the public support is down, then senators smell blood. Here it has become common for the party’s to change leader mid term. I get the voting system in America is more complex. But if the public love you then you would be untouchable.

  16. Guesstimate says

    This Congressman needs to resign. There is no chance of Democrats becoming the majority in the House of Representatives when they need to pick up another 24 seats after having only picked up 6 seats during the last election. Paul Ryan is resigning because he’s afraid of losing his position of House Speaker to a more conservative Republican, not Nancy Pelosi. This Congressman is delusional and out of touch with his voter base along with a large number of other Congressmen.

    • missdemeanor says

      Exactly correct: Rep. Peter King in an expletive-laced grocery store melt-down about Trump ruining the GOP. To save themselves from utter destruction at the ballot box, Rep. King is open to impeachment after the GOP primaries.

  18. Lizbait says

    I din’t know who/where, but totally another hypocrite on parade.

    I do love the Forrest Gump comparison however. At least Forrest served, and we know that he didn’t have a problem with bone spurs!!!!

  19. rorythedragon says

    No idea who this is but I’m ok with both parties imploding like a collapsing star. It’s time to rearrange things and no longer about left and right, but right and wrong. Maybe that’s the ultimate draining of the swamp because no one gets to a position of power without getting some stink on them.

  20. CalamityJane says

    It could be anyone. They’ve all put party over country, and I’m sure most of them think he’s a joke, but only a few have the cojones to speak out. Sad!

  21. brobdingnagian says

    I don’t think there is anything Trump can do now to stop this runaway train.

    I didn’t vote for him, but that said I do want him to succeed and get some positive thing done for the country. I never could understand the concept of wanting a sitting president to fail.

  22. badgerette85 says

    Devin Nunes/Cali or Jim Jordan/Ohio
    I think it will be a struggle to maintain House… he needs to stay focused on the issues his base was promised and stop all the unnecessary rants onTwitter for starters.

    • Jen813 says

      No way it’s Nunes. That man is even more twisted than trump. I think he’s a plant from Russia personally. Jim is a good guess though!

  25. jonty30 says

    If you are losing, it’s because you refuse to govern responsibly. That isn’t Trump’s fault.

    It’s yours, Paul.

  26. Aenwyn says

    He needs to stop posting on Twitter. Most of his older base doesn’t use it, for one, and when they see his comments being read on the news they think he sounds like a child.

    Trump won’t be able to hold a supermajority much longer, even if he was a beloved president…no one party holds that much power for long.

    The pendulum of power between Dems and Repubs will continue to swing back and forth in this country, I’m sure we’ll have a Democrat in the Oval Office within the next 2…

  27. celebiddy says

    TLDR

    But the parts i did skim over read like political fan fiction lol. As if politicians have never had private vs public opinions. SHOCKER

  29. More_Cowbell says

    I’m guessing Peter King, NY.
    Trump could help the GOP by actually acting like Forrest Gump and serving his country.

  30. beachchick218 says

    I am a conservative. The Republicans are their own worst enemy. They are no better than the democrats. Established politicians can’t stand that Trump doesn’t act like them. 98 % of ALL politicians are corrupt and put their own power and more monetary desires ahead of why they are there.

    Trump isn’t the problem. The lifelong politicians are the problem. Washington DC is a filthy and disgusting slime pit that does not have to live by the laws they make for us.

  31. SouthJerseyGirl says

    No clue who this is but I wish this congressman had a spine and would come out publicly with how he really feels, but they only do that when they have nothing to lose because they’re not going to run again.

    To help Repubs keep control, trump has to be impeached or resign or the Republicans are sunk. As long as the market is up, his rich base will back him. If they start to lose $ though, watch out. As for the ones with less $, they’re supporting a con man and too stupid to admit it.

  32. Gerseychick says

    Watch President Michael Pence, just a matter of time….
    Mark Rubio Florida………………….