Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell are both about to have a very bad day

| 7:10 am EST December 29, 2020
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Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell are each about to have a bad day today, for different but intertwined reasons – and it could be a matter of which of them gets frustrated and selfishly throws the other under the bus first.

Trump is facing the ugly reality that 44 House Republicans just voted in favor of increasing the stimulus checks, while completely ignoring the stipulations that Trump demanded be included – and now a number of Senate Republicans are looking to do the same.

McConnell is facing the no-win choice of either allowing the $2,000 relief checks to happen, which he’s been strongly opposed to from the start, or facing a Bernie Sanders filibuster on the U.S. military budget until McConnell caves on the relief checks. McConnell doesn’t need this kind of negative attention for the Republican Senate just one week ahead of the Georgia Senate runoffs.

So will McConnell cave and allow the $2,000 relief check vote to happen? If so, he’ll be screwing Trump, by ignoring Trump’s demands for anti-Twitter provisions and such. In such case, will Trump lash out at McConnell? This is the last thing either one of them needs, with McConnell in danger of losing his Majority Leader position in a week, and Trump just three weeks from being eligible for arrest and prison.