FORMER President Donald Trump ripped Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday as an “unsmiling political hack” and called for his firing. 

In a statement released via his Save America super political action committee, Trump said McConnell was to blame for the GOP losing Senate seats and the majority in the 2020 elections.

“Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again,” Trump stated. 

“He will never do what needs to be done, or what is right for our Country.”

Trump said he would back primary rivals who push his Making America Great Again and America First policies “where necessary and appropriate.”

The former president said Republicans want “brilliant, strong, thoughtful, and compassionate leadership,” and that it is a big moment for the US and “we cannot let it pass using third rate ‘leaders’ to dictate our future.”

Trump slammed McConnell after the Kentucky Republican on Saturday voted to acquit him in his second impeachment trial because the Constitution does not allow the Senate to punish a president who has left office. 

But in his speech on the Senate floor, McConnell also said that Trump was “practically and morally responsible” for the deadly January 6 Capitol riot.

“This was an intensifying crescendo of conspiracy theories orchestrated by an outgoing president who seemed determined to either overturn the voters’ decision or else torch our institutions on the way out,” McConnell said.

“Former President Trump’s actions that preceded the riot were a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty.”

Seven GOP senators joined every Democrat in finding Trump guilty, but the 57-43 vote did not meet the two-thirds requirement to convict him.

After Trump was acquitted, President Joe Biden insisted that Republicans like McConnell believe his predecessor "is guilty" and "morally responsible" for the insurrection.

In his statement, Trump said that elections in Georgia and other swing states were complete disasters and that McConnell “did nothing” to secure fair and just electoral systems. 

“My only regret is that McConnell ‘begged’ for my strong support and endorsement before the great people of Kentucky in the 2020 election, and I gave it to him,” Trump stated. 

The 45th president claimed that McConnell would have “lost badly” without his endorsement and that he quickly forgot the help. 

Trump said that the GOP would never again be a respected and strong party with McConnell leading due to his “status quo policies.”

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“His lack of political insight, wisdom, skill and personality, has rapidly driven him from Majority Leader to Minority Leader, and it will only get worse,” Trump stated.

“The Democrats and [Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer play McConnell like a fiddle—they’ve never had it so good—and they want to keep it that way!”

On Monday, McConnell said he may not back Trump's daughter-in-law Lara Trump in her expected Senate run in 2022 or QAnon Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene, in favor of "electable" candidates.

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