Chao Responds to Trump’s ‘Coco Chow’ Attacks

Trump-era Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has issued a statement regarding repeated attacks by former President Donald Trump, who has been calling her “Coco Chow.”

“When I was young, some people deliberately misspelled or mispronounced my name. Asian Americans have worked hard to change that experience for the next generation,” Chao said in a statement, according to Politico. “He doesn’t seem to get it, which says a lot more about him than it will ever say about Asian Americans.”

Chao, who is the wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), served as transportation secretary for most of Trump’s tenure in the White House, but resigned after the riot in Capitol of January 6, 2021.

In a message to his colleagues announcing his resignation, Chao wrote: “Our country experienced a traumatic and entirely avoidable event when the president’s supporters stormed the Capitol building after a rally attended by lead. As I’m sure many of you are, it has deeply troubled me in a way that I simply cannot put aside.”

u201cIt has been the honor of a lifetime to serve in the US Department of Transportation.u201d

—Sec. Elaine Chao (@Sec. Elaine Chao) 1610044561

In posts on Truth Social, Trump has referred to Chao as McConnell’s “dominant, China-loving BOSS, I mean the wife, Coco Chow” and as the senator’s “blatant China boss, Coco Chow” .

“Does Coco Chow have anything to do with Joe Biden’s classified documents being shipped and stored in Chinatown?,” Trump asked in another post. “Her husband, the Old Broken Crow, is VERY close to Biden, the Democrats, and of course China. He gives them everything they want!”

Politico reported that Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement that Trump’s criticisms focus on Chao’s family’s potential financial conflicts, but not on the issue of race.

“People should stop feigning outrage and engaging in controversies that only exist in their heads,” Cheung said, according to the outlet. “What is really troubling are his family’s deeply troubling ties to Communist China, which have undermined American economic and national security.”

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