Marc Short says Trump's post on Elaine Chao was a "racial slur" that was "obviously wrong"

Marc Short, a senior adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence and onetime director of legislative affairs under then-President Trump, said it was "obviously wrong" for the former president to use a "racial slur" against Elaine Chao, the wife of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Trump's former transportation secretary.

Short made the comments in an interview on CBS News' "Red and Blue" Monday night, after Trump last week posted on his platform Truth Social that McConnell has a "DEATH WISH" for voting with Democrats to approve a stop-gap funding bill, and called Chao, "his China-loving wife, Coco Chow." Short called the post "erroneous," to say the last, highlighting how much Chao has done for the cause of freedom in China. 

"When I — when I saw those tweets at midnight, I sort of assumed the president had taken to drinking at that point," Short joked. "I think that you know, it's important to remember that Elaine Chao and her family have been strong crusaders against communist China their whole lives. She's devoted herself to that. She's spent time outside of government working at Heritage Foundation, fighting the cause for freedom. She, her family is actually from Taiwan. I think that that certainly was a misplaced and erroneous tweet, to say the least."