- In reaction to a story about President Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell's campaign on Monday tweeted a GIF of Adam Scott as Ben Wyatt, his character on the hit show "Parks and Recreation," smiling and winking.
- Scott on Wednesday asked the Senate majority leader and "all those representing him" to "please refrain from using my image in support of anything but your own stunning & humiliating defeat."
- The campaign responded with a "Parks and Rec" newspaper headline about Wyatt's failed mayorship, "Ice Town Costs Ice Clown His Town Crown."
- Scott then posted a photo of McConnell smiling in front of a massive Confederate flag.
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Adam Scott asked Mitch McConnell's staff not to use his image on social media, and the politician's campaign team responded with a joke from "Parks and Recreation."
In a tweet on Monday, the Senate majority leader's campaign, Team Mitch, used a GIF of Scott as Ben Wyatt, his character on the hit show "Parks and Recreation," smiling and winking, apparently in reaction to an article from The Hill about President Donald Trump wanting to fill a Supreme Court vacancy before the 2020 election.
Scott responded on Wednesday, telling McConnell and "all those representing him" to "please refrain from using my image in support of anything but your own stunning & humiliating defeat."
—Adam Scott (@mradamscott) June 26, 2019McConnell's campaign responded with a "Parks and Rec" newspaper headline about Wyatt's failed mayorship, "Ice Town Costs Ice Clown His Town Crown."
—Team Mitch (@Team_Mitch) June 26, 2019In the show, Wyatt, at 18, became the youngest elected mayor of his hometown in Minnesota. Woefully unprepared for the job, he bankrupted the town with an ill-conceived project for a winter-sports complex, Ice Town, and was impeached barely two months into his tenure, facing record-low unemployment numbers.
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Scott, who now stars in the HBO series "Big Little Lies," responded to Team Mitch's tweet with a photo of McConnell smiling in front of a massive Confederate flag.
—Adam Scott (@mradamscott) June 26, 2019McConnell came under scrutiny earlier this month after saying that reparations for slavery were not a "good idea."
"We've tried to deal with our original sin of slavery by fighting a civil war, by passing landmark civil rights legislation. We elected an African-American president," McConnell told reporters, according to USA Today.
This isn't the first time someone connected to "Parks and Rec" has demanded their images not be used — the show's creator Michael Schur told the National Rifle Association last year not to use images from the show because he didn't want it to be used to promote a "pro-slaughter agenda."
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