Sen. Mitch McConnell hospitalized, office says he is receiving 'excellent care'
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.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, 84, has been hospitalized. His senior adviser David Popp says he is receiving “excellent care.”
Of course. All of them get to have excellent care. While the working class people have to fight for ours.
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.
Turtle could really upstage taco on his big day.
Oh no. What’s for lunch? Hopefully he spends eternity in hell listening to the speeches of Barack Obama on endless repeat
Oh no what if it’s nothing serious
It would be a shame if Mitch died and a Dem was appointed to his seat.
What he should get is the care he voted for others to receive
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.
Satan awaits this one. Pure evil.
I pray he dies a painful death!
He's lucky he has health care insurance isn't he?
Will he visit Trump as the ghost of Congress past?
Healthcare for me but not for thee...
I’ve got my screen shot of tRump’s reaction to Bob Mueller’s death at the ready to plagiarize.
Sorry about his illness but we should set term limits.
God if only the rest of the 84 year olds in this country could receive the same level of “excellent care”.
I hope Mitch gets what he deserves. That's all I'm saying.
Cue up Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust"?
….Unlike the rest of Americans.
Kentucky has a Dem Governor, if he goes to the light, Dem Governor can and should immediately appoint Dem Senator!!!
Of course he is we pay for his healthcare!!
So he’s not gonna be at the White Trash House UFC event tonite?
Yeah, the same care he denied to his fellow Americans!! 🖕🖕🖕
I’m sorry to hear that. He’s an evil prique who needs to leave this planet. Hopefully in pain.
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
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.
It’s wonderful that he can count on his “excellent health care plan” to give him the “excellent care” that he will surely need!
That’s what government provided healthcare looks Like. The rest of us are sol
We'd rather it was trump. Seriously.
I hope Moscow mitch gets the care the gop wants for the masses.
Wishing no harm, but end this gerontocracy via reform. If there was ever a G7 that needed reform, it’s this one
May he be in great discomfort.
Well, whatever it is, I hope it drags on and is excruciating.
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.
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”.
Free premium healthcare paid by taxpayers, how ironic
Keep us updated if, the birthday boy goes to the hospital
Thought and prayers. To the medical professionals working so hard.
I don’t want my taxes to pay for this!
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
Satan selects the wrong one, yet again
Slow and painful I hope...as he has done to others
Thoughts and prayers I guess.
That old man let trump off of the impeachment hook, and look where we are now.
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
May he rot in pieces!
Of course he is: he has excellent health insurance- paid for by the America he betrayed…
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.
So classic. The best of care for a man who has fought tooth and nail to strip everyone else's care.
Excellent care like what? Mummification?
Let's hope it is "End Of Life Care".
He's receiving excellent care? You're welcome.
Everybody needs to lay off. It’s not easy to find a vet that specializes in middle aged tortoises.
Tots and pears to the old Toad I guess
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
Time for that ghoul to go….straight to Hell.
Cool, I hope it’s slow and agonizing and that what’s waiting for him after is 1000x worse
The kind of care we peasants don’t deserve.
So not able to vote in Senate, bummer
Wishing nothing but the worst for him
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.
He needs to step down.
Too bad. He should get what his poorest constituents have and not a band aid more.
Of course he's getting excellent care while most of his constituents can't afford healthcare or medication.
That’s the same level of care he has tried to prevent regular americans from receiving
I hope RFK Jr is his doctor! And I’m sure Trump is worried sick about him!
Straight out of the mind and mouth of the heartless traitor- "You must be under the mistaken impression that I care.”
Of course he is; in fact, the best in the world. Not so much the rest of us.
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...
Best healthcare OUR tax dollars can buy.
A walking advert for mandatory retirement at 65 for all politicians made flesh.
All politicians should have the same health care as the poorest American. Nothing less, nothing more.
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.
Schrödinger's politician - simultaneously dead and alive.
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.
He is getting the best medical care We can buy while he considers us suffering 'Not his problem'
the big beautiful obituary being anticipated is not his, but it would be accepted, just not as a substitute, as a preview.
That’s best “healthcare available” that “WE” pay for
Mitch McConnell, just as big of a bitch as Donald
He should demand one of those magic beds the MAGA 30% insist exist in DC
Exactly but he’s gonna pass within the next 48 hours. I’m gonna call it now.
Without Mitch, there would be no Dobbs, no presidential immunity, no Calais. Credit where credit is due.
Live your life in such a way that millions aren’t cheering for your death.
Only the best taxpayer funded healthcare for Mr McConnell.
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?
I couldn’t be his nurse or doctor. I’d have to walk away.
Excellent care he would deny all Americans if he'd been able to pull it off in 2017.
Americans thinking about their health insurance:
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.
Please don't take this away from us! We're still waiting for it....
Not just that so many Americans don’t have access to health care—Mitch helped deny their access to health care!
Pray for an open shoebox funeral. 🙏
84-year-old Senator Mitch McConnell was hospitalized this morning, his office says. McConnell has been in office since 1985.
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.
We must end the gerontocracy!
He’s the source of a LOT of the evil that permeates US politics now.
I was born in 1990. This man has been in office longer than I have been alive
2 years longer than I been alive. That old fuck needs to go and any other old fucks like him too.
Sincere thoughts and prayers (with any MRSA lurking within the hospital, send this evil fuck to turtle hell)
Don’t let the door hit you on your way to hell Mitch
He vowed to make President Obama a one-term president, *stole* a Supreme Court seat from him, and voted to acquit Trump during impeachment. ☠️
McConnell is the #1 reason our country is a fascist state. He could have stopped Trump.
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.
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.
Hell is reaching for him.
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.
Right on. So anyways what’s everyone think of this Germany v Curaçao match? What a blowout
Karma will not be kind to this demon
I like that he always looks like he’s got a sour candy in his mouth
Very reason I believe in term limits. Mother fucker has been in power longer than I have been alive
Gotta say that it was pretty smart of Kentucky Republicans to change the law back in 2024 specifically to prevent Andy Beshear from appointing a Dem to replace McConnell whenever he kicks the bucket. www.politico.com/news/2024/03...
Like, that's some truly McConnell-level politicking. Almost have to respect it.
Beshear thinks the law is unconstitutional so I wouldn’t be surprised to see him disregard it tbh
The state constitution contradicts the law; Section 152 of the state constitution provides that the Governor "shall" fill by appointment vacancies in offices for the State at large. No conditions, qualifications, or limits are placed on that appointment power.
He “kept the chaos at bay” in America, while helping bomb the Middle East for decades and helping manufacture the Supreme Court’s dismantling of civil rights. Mitch McConnell is an evil sack of shit, and the MAGA movement hates him because they are too dumb to realize he won their battles for them.
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.
He is one of the reasons that SCOTUS is compromised. He is very responsible for what’s happening today.
I hope that in the first 3 sentences of every Mitch McConnell obit, we are reminded that he could have whipped the vote to convict Trump after his 2nd impeachment.
This is someone mourning the loss of their access journalism.
Nope. I definitely will not miss him when he is gone.
"Sen. Mitch McConnell was admitted to the hospital Sunday morning.. He is receiving excellent care.” No additional details were immediately released, including the reason for the hospitalization or how long he is expected to remain under medical care"
You hate to see these things happen to nice people. Mitch McConnell, on the other hand, is one of the great villains and most destructive people in American history.
well of course he gets excellent care. The rest of us should too.
That's terrible news. That excellent care should be used for someone else.
With his excellent medical insurance, of course.
Yeah man could you imagine if Mitch McConnell wasn’t universally recognized as the undisputed leader of the GOP and it resulted in the party detaching itself from reality
If McConnell never openly embraced Qanon beliefs it was simply because he thought that the Democrats could be more easily defeated through feigning respectability. But he would have altered every aspect of his political posture to far right lunacy if he believed that was the best strategy
Yeah, the GOP would really suck otherwise