You might remember Kayleigh McEnany from the lead-up to 2016 presidential election. She was a regular conservative commentator on CNN and remained with the network until last week. She was even featured in the Daily Kos “In Memoriam” Election Eve montage of the best of the worst Trump pundits. Here’s that brief clip to refresh your memory.
McEnany left behind her duties at CNN to take a new position, this time landing a job as the spokesperson of the Republican National Committee. Even as Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake made the rounds on Sunday talk shows to express his regret that the GOP did not stand up to “birtherism,” the conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama was not actually a U.S. citizen, the Republican Party itself was hiring a spokesperson with a history of promoting racist theories about the president. Here are a few gems from the Twitter timeline of Kayleigh McEnany:
Hilarious, right? McEnany didn’t only believe Obama’s birth certificate was phony. Like Donald Trump, McEnany publicly demanded to see President Obama’s college transcripts.
Once again, these claims all go back to the racist idea that the nation’s first black president is illegitimate, something Trump and McEnany were (are?) heavily invested in:
Chuck Todd, host: “Do you believe President Obama is a citizen who was born in the United States?”
Donald J. Trump: “Well, I don’t like talking about it anymore because, honestly, I have my own feelings. I think he should have taken the $5 million. I don’t know why he spent $4 million in legal fees to keep his records away. Nobody has seen his records. I don’t know.”
Todd: “We’re talking about the birth certificates.”
Trump: “… I mean his college records. He spent $4 million in legal fees to make sure that nobody ever saw” them.
Back to Sen. Jeff Flake for a moment. During his Sunday morning talk show interview, he said:
While he said he personally stood up to birthers, Flake told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he wished the party would have done more during this “particularly ugly” time.
“I wish that we, as a party, would have stood up, for example, when the birtherism thing was going along,” he said. “A lot of people did stand up but not enough.”
Sen. Flake, if you are reading this, don’t you think now would be a good time to buck your own party and demand the Republican National Committee reconsider hiring someone who was so instrumental in pushing this racist conspiracy garbage? Because she just got promoted as the actual spokesperson of your party. The racist face of your party.
Let’s take a look at some of McEnany’s other greatest hits. McEnany loved blowing her dog whistle to claim President Obama was giving away free stuff.
All those food stamp recipients are the only reason he could even get elected, right?
And here’s the whitest white woman in America criticizing President Obama, our first black president, for making the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s March on Washington “all about him”:
Do you think she remembered that tweet as she sat in front of this backdrop during her first appearance on Trump’s propaganda TV launch over the weekend? I mean, they managed to include Trump’s name in not one, not two, but four different fonts. And … it was Obama with the ego problem?
And because there is a prophetic tweet for everything in the Trump era, here she is howling about the endless scandals coming from the Obama administration.
She thought was downright despicable President Obama played golf:
Oddly enough, not a single tweet admonishing Donald Trump for playing golf. What. Could. Be. Different?
Heckuva hire, GOP. Heckuva hire.