Teamsters union president, GOP lawmaker reconcile after Senate listening to struggle
President Donald Trump has helped a GOP lawmaker and nationwide union chief lastly squash their feud after making headlines in 2023 for his or her verbal spat on the Senate ground, telling one another to “stand” their “butt(s) up,” throughout an argument.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., and Teamsters President Sean O’Brien made headlines in November 2023 for his or her heated argument after the consultant confronted the union boss on his crucial tweets.
Now, the 2 males say President Trump has introduced them collectively after a telephone name.
“Even after President Trump and Sean O’Brien sat down and talked, one of many first telephone calls he made was to me and mentioned, ‘Hey Markwayne, I believe you guys will get alongside. You guys want to speak as a result of I believe we acquired a spot for the unions to come back in and it begins with Sean. Why do not you guys simply sit down and break bread collectively?’ Sean and I broke bread collectively for the primary time, and we’ve really constructed a friendship ever since then,” Rep. Markwayne Mullin advised “Hannity” on Thursday.
The pair is now becoming a member of collectively to endorse Trump nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer.
“We’re working very arduous, each of us, to do what’s proper for the American employee,” Teamsters president Sean O’Brien advised Fox Information. “Now, we are able to comply with disagree on proper to work. We are able to comply with disagree on the Professional Act, however the job at hand proper now could be getting Lori Chavez-DeRemer confirmed, and we’ll work collectively. Look, we did have a struggle. We did have an argument, however it’s what it’s. It is prior to now.”
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MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN – JULY 15: President of the Worldwide Brotherhood of Teamsters Sean O’Brien speaks on stage on the primary day of the Republican Nationwide Conference on the Fiserv Discussion board on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photograph by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photos) (Getty Photos)
“You tweeted at me one, two, three, 4, 5 instances,” video reveals Mullin addressing the chief throughout their viral confrontation. “Let me learn what the final one mentioned. It mentioned, ‘Grasping CEO who pretends like he is self-made.’ Sorry, I want he was within the truck with me once I was constructing my plumbing firm myself. … ‘Stop the robust man act in these Senate hearings. You understand the place to search out me anyplace, any time, cowboy.’ Sir, this can be a time, this can be a place. You need to run your mouth. We could be two consenting adults. We are able to end it right here.”
O’Brien responded he was effective with that, and Mullin mentioned, “Effectively, stand your butt up, then.”
“You stand your butt up,” O’Brien responded, inflicting chaos on the ground with interruptions from onlookers to cease.
Senator Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, speaks throughout a Senate Armed Companies Committee affirmation listening to in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Photos (Al Drago)
Mullin mirrored that his new “friendship” with O’Brien represents unity below the commander-in-chief.
“What Sean and I’s friendship represents is President Trump reaching exterior the norm of the political boundaries that the Republican Get together had placed on ourselves and introduced a coalition collectively, like with Tulsi Gabbard, with Bobby.”
