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Sen. Mitch McConnell hospitalized, office says he is receiving 'excellent care'

newsJun 14, 2026693,840

Sen. Mitch McConnell, 84, was admitted to the hospital Sunday morning, and his spokesperson David Popp said he is receiving "excellent care." McConnell's office released no reason for the hospitalization and did not say how long he will remain under medical care. McConnell, the Senate Republican leader from Kentucky, has faced multiple health problems in recent years, including a March 2023 concussion and broken ribs after a fall and an episode in July 2023 when he froze mid-sentence. The hospitalization matters because McConnell directs Republican Senate strategy, and any extended absence could affect floor scheduling, committee leadership, or party decision making.

MeidasTouch
@meidastouch.com

Sen. Mitch McConnell, 84, has been hospitalized. His senior adviser David Popp says he is receiving “excellent care.”

13883h ago
BogieBrylee339

Of course. All of them get to have excellent care. While the working class people have to fight for ours.

Jocelyn Fox172

He’s had government healthcare for about 41 of my 43 years of life. I just learned this today. That is way too long to be in office. And we should all have excellent free healthcare.

Laszlo Panaflex153

Turtle could really upstage taco on his big day.

The Man from Urkle74

Oh no. What’s for lunch? Hopefully he spends eternity in hell listening to the speeches of Barack Obama on endless repeat

💉Josh Rubin, MD62

Oh no what if it’s nothing serious

moondoggus.bsky.social48

It would be a shame if Mitch died and a Dem was appointed to his seat.

artymusical.bsky.social47

What he should get is the care he voted for others to receive

whatsit2you.bsky.social45

Seems like a good time to mention that 24 members of Congress are age 80 or over. And that 13 of them are running for re-election! Not to mention: the sleepy, cranky old guy currently trashing the White House--the one on a tax-payer funded spending spree--turns 80 today.

Saint Sherman - The Ultimate Patriot23

Satan awaits this one. Pure evil.

nanted.bsky.social21

I pray he dies a painful death!

Gail and Jasper21

He's lucky he has health care insurance isn't he?

Dean Booth 🦆🐇20

Will he visit Trump as the ghost of Congress past?

CJ17

Healthcare for me but not for thee...

Kaila Brown16

I’ve got my screen shot of tRump’s reaction to Bob Mueller’s death at the ready to plagiarize.

Debra Meeks15

Sorry about his illness but we should set term limits.

Sasquatch11

God if only the rest of the 84 year olds in this country could receive the same level of “excellent care”.

Sandy B 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🇨🇦9

I hope Mitch gets what he deserves. That's all I'm saying.

Maria Aragon - Artist and Author9

Cue up Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust"?

RandyResists2025💙🔵8

….Unlike the rest of Americans.

Scotch7

Kentucky has a Dem Governor, if he goes to the light, Dem Governor can and should immediately appoint Dem Senator!!!

Lady 🖤7

Of course he is we pay for his healthcare!!

Deirdre6

So he’s not gonna be at the White Trash House UFC event tonite?

Gladiator for Democracy6

Yeah, the same care he denied to his fellow Americans!! 🖕🖕🖕

drazowsky.bsky.social6

I’m sorry to hear that. He’s an evil prique who needs to leave this planet. Hopefully in pain.

sam-mayday-malone.bsky.social6

people who old political office and serve as judges should 1. make no more than $60k/ yr salary 2. not able to trade stocks, and neither should their spouses 3. they have to acquire their own health insurance 4. they cannot serve on any corporate board for a period of 10 yrs after office

Jonny Skedge6

I wish him a very fine nothing. There is a direct line from his actions to Trump's lack of consequences, return to power, and subsequent horrors. Rest in piss, war criminal scum. Deeply complicit. Pity he won't hang at the Hague with the rest when all this comes due.

NoellaRetired!6

It’s wonderful that he can count on his “excellent health care plan” to give him the “excellent care” that he will surely need!

ADaveSaysWhat5

That’s what government provided healthcare looks Like. The rest of us are sol

Jay Lee5

We'd rather it was trump. Seriously.

NEELY5

I hope Moscow mitch gets the care the gop wants for the masses.

drekarbt.bsky.social5

Wishing no harm, but end this gerontocracy via reform. If there was ever a G7 that needed reform, it’s this one

Armando Correa5

May he be in great discomfort.

billtbns.bsky.social4

Well, whatever it is, I hope it drags on and is excruciating.

Infosecanon 4

Meanwhile people I know personally get their treatment denied as “medically unnecessary” and have to crowdfund their medical costs. This will continue until our representatives have to use the same healthcare system as us.

Bill4

He, along with Trump & Murdoch, have completely changed and essentially destroyed American Democracy and world standing. Musk is striving to surpass them all in the “Evil Hall of Fame”.

AlienGhostStory4

Free premium healthcare paid by taxpayers, how ironic

Chris Klitzing 🦋🇨🇦🇺🇦4

Keep us updated if, the birthday boy goes to the hospital

Dr. RawheaD4

Thought and prayers. To the medical professionals working so hard.

bobbymurphy.bsky.social4

I don’t want my taxes to pay for this!

Walter Muller4

Some men leave a mark in their lives and others leave a stain...this scumbag left a huge stain on this nation for far too long

boykobostonian.bsky.social3

Satan selects the wrong one, yet again

Elly Brown-Riley3

Slow and painful I hope...as he has done to others

Rick Alexander ⚖️ ☮️ 🔭🇺🇦🇨🇦3

Thoughts and prayers I guess.

The Shadow 🇺🇦3

That old man let trump off of the impeachment hook, and look where we are now.

mickey23.bsky.social3

I don't give a damn that he's in the hospital getting the best of care, while we the people can't even afford Healthcare, thanks to Moscow Mitch, and his fellow GOP'ERS. I will never forgive, nor forget, that you as head of the Senate had the Ability to save America, indeed the whole world

Blue News3

May he rot in pieces!

fingbullshit.bsky.social3

Of course he is: he has excellent health insurance- paid for by the America he betrayed…

Jocyle83

That's great, but what about the 84 yom who lives down the street? He had a stroke, meager social security, no healthcare? I guess his life is worth nothing while Mitch McConnell is receiving "excellent care". Human dignity depends on your pocketbook. Only America & other 3rd world countries.

h0pe4dfuture.bsky.social3

So classic. The best of care for a man who has fought tooth and nail to strip everyone else's care.

Undinium ​​👽​🛸🖖🇬🇱🇺🇦2

Excellent care like what? Mummification?

Lea, grüne Khmer ⚧️ 🏏2

Let's hope it is "End Of Life Care".

yvettez8896.bsky.social2

He's receiving excellent care? You're welcome.

Travis Klempan2

Everybody needs to lay off. It’s not easy to find a vet that specializes in middle aged tortoises.

AwntieWithaW2

Tots and pears to the old Toad I guess

Wyunker2

hmmm....I don't consider my medical coverage "excellent. In fact, I don't really know many, if any, people who would consider their medical coverage "excellent". I would actually consider sub-par at the best. Thanks, Mitch. That is your's and the GOP legacy. #FGOP #IsHeDeadYet

Jennifer Keith2

Time for that ghoul to go….straight to Hell.

Michael Love2

Cool, I hope it’s slow and agonizing and that what’s waiting for him after is 1000x worse

Terry2

The kind of care we peasants don’t deserve.

Eric Gril2

So not able to vote in Senate, bummer

Jo2

Wishing nothing but the worst for him

Nancy03172

Of course he is receiving EXCELLENT CARE. He made sure people got SHIT CARE for coverage & now is rubbing in his excellent care. He is more responsible for the state of our country than anyone else. He could have IMPEACHED & REMOVED Trump but asked for a personal favor to Senators to vote no. F HIM.

Kimba2

He needs to step down.

bagelsnob99.bsky.social2

Too bad. He should get what his poorest constituents have and not a band aid more.

I Am Boudicca 🇺🇦 💔🇺🇲2

Of course he's getting excellent care while most of his constituents can't afford healthcare or medication.

Craig Faanes2

That’s the same level of care he has tried to prevent regular americans from receiving

recalled-to-life.bsky.social2

I hope RFK Jr is his doctor! And I’m sure Trump is worried sick about him!

paulapooh.bsky.social2

Straight out of the mind and mouth of the heartless traitor- "You must be under the mistaken impression that I care.”

Hilary Grant2

Of course he is; in fact, the best in the world. Not so much the rest of us.

Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com

And I’m sure Mitch McConnell is getting the best healthcare money can buy while so many Americans don’t have access. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

7332h ago
Fred Hager21

Best healthcare OUR tax dollars can buy.

Aberdeen City Arts Board17

A walking advert for mandatory retirement at 65 for all politicians made flesh.

Judyds12

All politicians should have the same health care as the poorest American. Nothing less, nothing more.

Circle of Love11

Watch this wretched man die miserably, taking nothing that his avarice and corruption acquired except the eternal condemnation of having hurt everyone but his rich white friends. Ditto for every treasonous GOP bastard selling out our democracy to billionaire rule.

Stephen James11

Schrödinger's politician - simultaneously dead and alive.

Clownfeet539

Mitch has made it his mission to deny affordable healthcare to Americans. I hope he’s getting the level of care that karma has in store for him.

0b9

He is getting the best medical care We can buy while he considers us suffering 'Not his problem'

TB9

the big beautiful obituary being anticipated is not his, but it would be accepted, just not as a substitute, as a preview.

RESIST8

That’s best “healthcare available” that “WE” pay for

YepppThatWasMe8

Mitch McConnell, just as big of a bitch as Donald

Kevin Wardrop7

He should demand one of those magic beds the MAGA 30% insist exist in DC

MPA & B.S. Emergency Management, Public Health, 🌈💜6

Exactly but he’s gonna pass within the next 48 hours. I’m gonna call it now.

uncle Ebenezer 🚫👑 ⭕️ 🟧 🍉6

Without Mitch, there would be no Dobbs, no presidential immunity, no Calais. Credit where credit is due.

NoNo Nanette 💙5

Live your life in such a way that millions aren’t cheering for your death.

Data4Miles3

Only the best taxpayer funded healthcare for Mr McConnell.

Eva Hamilton (she/her)3

Today is the monster's birthday. What if the UFC debacle is rained out and McConnell dies, stealing all the press and hoopla from the birthday creep?

my3boys1pup.bsky.social3

I couldn’t be his nurse or doctor. I’d have to walk away.

Deb ❌👑 🐸🌊💙2

Excellent care he would deny all Americans if he'd been able to pull it off in 2017.

lanternwaste.bsky.social2

Americans thinking about their health insurance:

Rae Rae2

I have healthcare (for now) because I live in California and don’t work because of long covid. So I‘m basically stuck living on 18k a year because if I tried to work a few hours a week so I could actually afford food I would also get kicked off free healthcare.

Steve Brady2

Please don't take this away from us! We're still waiting for it....

JanemNow2

Not just that so many Americans don’t have access to health care—Mitch helped deny their access to health care!

Spiked Doormat2

Pray for an open shoebox funeral. 🙏

Ken Klippenstein
@kenklippenstein.bsky.social

84-year-old Senator Mitch McConnell was hospitalized this morning, his office says. McConnell has been in office since 1985.

5903h ago
Frank Beck79

By my calculation, that's 41 years too long. His refusal to let the Senate consider Obama's Supreme Court nominee is what of the most shocking political episodes in my lifetime. He should be remembered for the racist and viciously partisan man he is.

Benny Brainless14

We must end the gerontocracy!

zOz11

He’s the source of a LOT of the evil that permeates US politics now.

Anne Cameron-Zane11

I was born in 1990. This man has been in office longer than I have been alive

The Captain9

2 years longer than I been alive. That old fuck needs to go and any other old fucks like him too.

mfrankovich.bsky.social7

Sincere thoughts and prayers (with any MRSA lurking within the hospital, send this evil fuck to turtle hell)

That’s what she said 🦋7

Don’t let the door hit you on your way to hell Mitch

Loreli📚💙☮️⚛️🐕🐈🌊🦋❌️👑5

He vowed to make President Obama a one-term president, *stole* a Supreme Court seat from him, and voted to acquit Trump during impeachment. ☠️

stardust1618.bsky.social5

McConnell is the #1 reason our country is a fascist state. He could have stopped Trump.

Broccolee🥦🥦🥦4

maybe he’ll finally fucking die and I hope it’s a miserable painfully slow death given the horrible misery and lasting damage he’s done to our country.

nashbroncofan.bsky.social3

I was a freshman in high school. In Kentucky. The people there consistently vote against their self-interests. He’s done nothing for that state.

voteoutallthosemfs 🌊🌊🌊3

Hell is reaching for him.

BD Max 🌵 🏜️ 🌄🌎🌏🌍💙🇺🇦🦋🧢2

What a legacy he’s wrought. Imagine following someone else’s orders for so long that you no longer know what’s right. Imagine selling your country out for some mistaken belief that the people in the country you work for are the enemy Kentucky has too many issues based on self importance.

Selekta2

Right on. So anyways what’s everyone think of this Germany v Curaçao match? What a blowout

PacifiCali 🟦🟧🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇸2

Karma will not be kind to this demon

Matts Beans2

I like that he always looks like he’s got a sour candy in his mouth

Casey Devroe2

Very reason I believe in term limits. Mother fucker has been in power longer than I have been alive

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