White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany called Trump an 'inauthentic Republican' and slammed his comments on Mexican immigrants as 'racist', 'hateful' and 'not the American way' back in 2015

The White House's new press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was a harsh critic of President Donald Trump during his candidacy and spoke against him in multiple interviews slamming his comments against Mexican immigrants as 'racist' and 'not the American way'.

Once Trump became the forerunner on the Republican ticket in the 2016 presidential election, she changed her tune and became a fierce advocate for him.

The Republican writer and pundit was named White House press secretary on April 7. After Trump was elected she had served as spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee. 

In resurfaced interviews with CNN and Fox Business from 2015 McEnany said it was 'unfortunate' and 'inauthentic' to call Trump a Republican. 

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The White House's new press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was a harsh critic of President Donald Trump during his candidacy and slammed his comments against Mexican immigrants as 'racist' and 'not the American way' back in 2015

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Before McEnany became White Press Secretary on April 7 she had shifted her views on President Trump. In early 2015 she was outspokenly critical of him and called him an 'inauthentic' Republican. Once he started to lead in the polls she began to vehemently defend him 

She gave a scathing criticism in response to Trump’s controversial statement that Mexico was sending 'rapists' to the US and immigrants were bringing drugs and crime to the country.

'To me, a racist statement is a racist statement. I don’t like what Donald Trump said,' she said on CNN in late June 2015, slamming his comments as 'derogatory'.

'Donald Trump has shown himself to be a showman, I don’t think he is a serious candidate. I think it is a sideshow. It’s not within the mainstream of the candidates,’ she said at the time. 

In an interview from June 23, 2015 McEnany said that Trump didn’t deserve to be polling in second in New Hampshire.

'Donald Trump is number two and doesn’t deserve to be there,' she said during an appearance as a commentator on Fox Business’ Kennedy.

'I appreciate his boldness and I think some of his rhetoric got the base excited, but it is not welcome rhetoric. Some of the things we heard in his speech when he said, when Mexico sends people across the border, they're sending criminals and rapists and maybe some good people. Look, the GOP doesn't need to be turning away voters and isolating them. We need to be bringing them into the tent. Donald Trump is the last person who's going to do that,' she added. 

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In a June 23, 2015 interview of Fox News' show 'Kennedy' she said 'Donald Trump is number two and doesn’t deserve to be there' after he polled at number two in New Hampshire during his presidential candidacy 

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On June 29, 2015 speaking to CNN she slammed Trump for his incendiary comments on Mexican immigrants where he claimed their were bringing drugs and crime into the country and called them 'rapists'. McEnany said: 'I want to make it clear, I don't support what Donald Trump said'

She doubled down on her comments on June 29, 2015 she said: 'I want to make it clear, I don't support what Donald Trump said. I think he said something very unartful, very inappropriate.'

She further said that in regards to Trump's border security policy, most Republicans don't support deporting undocumented immigrants. 

'I think the mainstream Republican does not want to send the illegal immigrant back to Mexico. I think that they're here to stay, that's not the American way. We're not going to ship people across the border. There has to be some path to citizenship,' she said. 

'So, in that sense, I don't think Donald Trump is consistent with mainstream Republicans,' she added. 

Then on June 30, 2015 she said Trump wasn’t a true Republican.

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By October 2015 she was fiercely defending Trump and said his comments on Mexicans were taken out of context during an HLN interview  

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‘Donald Trump is benefiting from all of this, because here is the thing, because every time someone tries to falsely put words in his mouth, they say that he said all Mexican immigrants are criminals, but he did not say that,' she said in that October 2015 HLN interview. 'He said, when Mexico sends people, that is different'

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'I don’t want to claim this guy. Donald Trump, if we're going to be honest, is a progressive. He supports eminent domain. He supported tax increases before. He's donated 300,000 to Democratic candidates,' she said. 

'So, the fact that the Republican Party is now having to claim him, is both unfortunate, and to me, inauthentic. Because this is not a true Republican candidate. And the fact that he's being portrayed as such in media is troublesome and not accurate,' she added. 

By July 8, 2015 Trump was leading in the polls and McEnany seemed to switch her stance and defended Trump’s comments about Mexican immigrants by comparing  them to comedian Amy Schumer’s jokes about Latino men being rapists.

'It seems like comedy is this veil where you're allowed to say anything you like whereas what she said is - really, if you think about it - more offensive than what Donald Trump said,' McEnany said.

By October 2015 she was fiercely defending Trump and said his comments on Mexicans were taken out of context.

'Donald Trump is benefiting from all of this, because here is the thing, because every time someone tries to falsely put words in his mouth, they say that he said all Mexican immigrants are criminals, but he did not say that,' she said. 'He said, when Mexico sends people, that is different.'