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 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 crucial 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 many first cellphone 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 bought a spot for the unions to return 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 now have actually constructed 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’re working very laborious, each of us, to do what’s proper for the American employee,” Teamsters president Sean O’Brien informed Fox Information. “Now, we will conform to disagree on proper to work. We are able to conform to disagree on the Professional Act, however the job at hand proper now could be getting Lori Chavez-DeRemer confirmed, and we will work collectively. Look, we did have a struggle. We did have an argument, however it’s what it’s. It is up 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. (Picture by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photographs) (Getty Photographs)

“You tweeted at me one, two, three, 4, 5 occasions,” 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 after I was constructing my plumbing firm myself. … ‘Give up the powerful man act in these Senate hearings. the place to seek out me anywhere, any time, cowboy.’ Sir, it is a time, it is a place. You wish to run your mouth. We might be two consenting adults. We are able to end it right here.” 

O’Brien responded he was high-quality with that, and Mullin mentioned, “Properly, stand your butt up, then.” 

“You stand your butt up,” O’Brien responded, inflicting chaos on the ground with interruptions from onlookers to cease. 

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Senator Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, speaks throughout a Senate Armed Providers Committee affirmation listening to in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs (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 outdoors the norm of the political boundaries that the Republican Social gathering had placed on ourselves and introduced a coalition collectively, like with Tulsi Gabbard, with Bobby.”