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 flooring, 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 vital tweets.
Now, the 2 males say President Trump has introduced them collectively after a cellphone name.
“Even after President Trump and Sean O’Brien sat down and talked, one of the first phone calls he made was to me and said, ‘Hey Markwayne, I think you guys will get along. You guys need to talk because I think we got a place for the unions to come in and it starts with Sean. Why don’t you guys just sit down and break bread together?’ Sean and I broke bread together for the first time, and we have truly built a friendship ever since then,” Rep. Markwayne Mullin informed “Hannity” on Thursday.
The pair is now becoming a member of collectively to endorse Trump nominee Lori Chavez-DeRemer.
“We are working very hard, both of us, to do what’s right for the American worker,” Teamsters president Sean O’Brien informed Fox Information. “Now, we can agree to disagree on right to work. We can agree to disagree on the Pro Act, but the task at hand right now is getting Lori Chavez-DeRemer confirmed, and we’re going to work together. Look, we did have a fight. We did have an argument, but it is what it is. It’s in the past.”
GOP LAWMAKER REVEALS BACKSTORY OF NEARLY COMING TO BLOWS WITH UNION BOSS AT SENATE HEARING
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. (Picture by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photos) (Getty Photos)
“You tweeted at me one, two, three, four, five times,” video exhibits Mullin addressing the chief throughout their viral confrontation. “Let me read what the last one said. It said, ‘Greedy CEO who pretends like he’s self-made.’ Sorry, I wish he was in the truck with me when I was building my plumbing company myself. … ‘Quit the tough guy act in these Senate hearings. You know where to find me any place, any time, cowboy.’ Sir, this is a time, this is a place. You want to run your mouth. We can be two consenting adults. We can finish it here.”
O’Brien responded he was high quality with that, and Mullin mentioned, “Well, 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 by way of Getty Photos (Al Drago)
Mullin mirrored that his new “friendship” with O’Brien represents unity beneath the commander-in-chief.
“What Sean and I’s friendship represents is President Trump reaching outside the norm of the political boundaries that the Republican Party had put on ourselves and brought a coalition together, like with Tulsi Gabbard, with Bobby.”
