Adam Scott roasts Mitch McConnell for using a 'Parks & Rec' GIF

Do not come for the 'Parks & Rec' crew.
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Adam Scott roasts Mitch McConnell for using a 'Parks & Rec' GIF
It's now Mitch McConnell versus Adam Scott. Credit: Mashable composite: Left, Tom Brenner / Getty Images; Right, Amanda Edwards / Getty Images

Adam Scott has no time for right-wing tomfoolery involving his face.

Just as his Parks & Rec co-star Amy Poehler put the NRA on blast last year for using her likeness, Scott has now scorched Sen. Mitch McConnell's campaign for using a GIF of his character Ben Wyatt on Twitter.

It started when Saagar Enjeti from The Hill reported on Monday that President Trump said he would be fine appointing a new Supreme Court nominee in 2020. This despite his support of Mitch McConnell's decision to block Obama's SCOTUS pick Merrick Garland in 2016 because McConnell didn't think a SCOTUS appointment should be made during an election year.

In recent months, McConnell has been downright glib about the way he blocked Garland, and he's been totally okay with voting on a Trump SCOTUS nominee in 2020 -- the kind of political chicanery we've come to expect from the GOP.

So McConnell's campaign team (McConnell is up for re-election in 2020) shared Enjeti's tweet and added that Ben Wyatt GIF, one more knife twist in this ongoing saga.

Scott fired back, and then Team Mitch replied with this little Ben Wyatt nugget that Parks & Rec fans will remember well.

But Scott wasn't done, dropping the infamous photo of Mitch McConnell receiving an award in front of a giant Confederate flag, which has made the rounds frequently in recent years.

Here's hoping the GOP will move on and find a new show to exploit in GIF form.

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Marcus Gilmer

Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.

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