Mitch McConnell trips and falls while being confronted by protester

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Oct. 16, 2025, 1:56 pm. ET


WASHINGTON – Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, tripped and fell on Thursday, Oct. 16 while being confronted by a protester in the basement of a Senate office building. Videos of the incident show an activist, who identified herself as Stella, challenging the 83-year-old GOP lawmaker over President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

"Do you support ICE taking working people off the street and kidnapping them?" the protester asked while approaching McConnell and walking within inches of him.

As the former Senate majority leader rounded the corner of a desk, he fell on his side, catching himself with one arm. He grabbed a man standing next to him, who along with a Capitol Police officer helped him back up. McConnell then turned and waved, appearing to smile.

McConnell's press secretary, Stephanie Penn, told USA TODAY the senator was OK after the incident. "He's all good," she said Thursday afternoon. He "went on to vote and (was) ready to vote again at 1:30, to see if Dems decide to fund our nation’s defense priorities or not."

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/16/mitch-mcconnell-trips-fall-protester-confrontation/86728091007/

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[littlemissmartypants]

1. The framing in the article sucks. The turtle gif makes it better though.

[Chasstev365]

2. Faux News will say she pushed him and other media will follow

[rzemanfl]

4. They will say she is an Antifa assassin in the pay of Soros.

[Oeditpus Rex]

8. That's strange

USA TODAY didn't

[Chasstev365]

12. Oh come on;

Don't you know sarcasm when you see it?

[Oeditpus Rex]

13. Actually, I'm quite attuned to it

when it's done cleverly enough to not repeat the oft-seen DU meme that "the media" support The Felonious (Mis)Administration.

[skydive forever]

3. Somebody make him go home.

This is almost elder abuse. I hate him with a passion, but send him home for his own sake.

[Torchlight]

5. He's really come across as vacant and unfocused the past two years.

If he's having neuro problems, fingers crossed he gets the best thoughts and prayers for-profits can buy him.

[agingdem]

6. I want that skeletal piece of shit to die a long

excruciating death...McConnell is single-handedly responsible for the rise of MAGA...while he despised Trump, he used him to pass the largest tax cut in history for the top 1%....

and after blocking Obama's Supreme Court nominee, he again used Trump to pack the courts with incompetent ultra right hacks, tasking them with nullifying Roe v Wade......and when he had the opportunity to rid us of a degenerate Hitler wannabe , he voted against impeachment....twice...

I don't believe in the concept of heaven/hell, however if there is a metaphysical presence handing out justice after death , I would hope Mitch McConnell is eternally assigned a Sisyphean hell but instead of a boulder it's Trump's bloated body...
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[quaint]

14. Epic third paragraph.

[Clouds Passing]

7. She pushed him.

That will be the gopedos response.

[GreenWave]

11. But what will Maga Machos think of that?

[Clouds Passing]

18. Young spring chicken pushing over an old man, but it's ok for ice to beat up teens and shoot pastors.

[Conjuay]

22. Or cops to push over 75 year old during BLM protests.

[iamnoone]

9. Second that

What agingdem said, absofrickinlutely.

[live love laugh]

10. Zombies are clumsy.

[58Sunliner]

15. He can barely walk. Most people in his condition would be using a walker or a wheel chair.

Instead he gets to pretend he is independently mobile with a aide to pick him up. I am surprised they could not find someone trained to assist him. The look in his eyes-is anyone home? Did he have a stroke? More than one?

[JoseBalow]

16. Have a nice trip!

See you next fall

[phxjurist]

17. It's time for him to buy and use a walker.

[FakeNoose]

19. He should resign ... AND the truth is he never should have run for a 7th term

[pfitz59]

20. He is really sick

barely holding it together. Not long for this world.

[Mark.b2]

21. Old fools hate giving up power...

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I don’t feel sorry for someone that old clinging to power like he does. Too many Senators do it, given it’s an easy gig. Still, you’d think his family would pull him aside and tell him he’s embarrassing himself.