Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and former President Donald Trump do not have a good relationship — or much of a relationship to speak of at all.
According to McConnell himself, the last time the two men spoke was on December 15, 2020, the day after the Electoral College declared Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
Though McConnell cooperated heavily with Trump during his presidency, that relationship became strained as the former president continued to challenge the legitimacy of the 2020 election and sought to overturn its results. Following the January 6 assault on the US Capitol, McConnell joined other Republican leaders in publicly blaming Trump for the incident.
But unlike other Republicans, such as Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, McConnell has sought to keep his public criticism of the former president to a minimum, even as Trump has repeatedly criticized him in harsh terms and called for his ouster as Senate Republican leader.
Nonetheless, occasionally Trump's actions or statements have prompted the mild-mannered McConnell to respond.
Here are the five times in the last two years when that's happened: