Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellSenate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden Hillicon Valley: DOJ indicts Chinese, Malaysian hackers accused of targeting over 100 organizations | GOP senators raise concerns over Oracle-TikTok deal | QAnon awareness jumps in new poll The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden asks if public can trust vaccine from Trump ahead of Election Day | Oklahoma health officials raised red flags before Trump rally MORE (R-Ky.) says he approves of President Trump Donald John TrumpBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Military leaders asked about using heat ray on protesters outside White House: report Powell warns failure to reach COVID-19 deal could 'scar and damage' economy MORE’s overall job performance so far.

“He’s different,” McConnell said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe." "But I like what he’s doing. I like the attack on over-regulation. I like the Cabinet appointments.”

McConnell added that Trump represents the “different kind of president” voters wanted in the 2016 presidential election.

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“There’s no question Donald Trump is a different kind of president,” he said. "He’s now comparing himself to Andrew Jackson.”

“I think it’s a pretty good, a pretty good comparison. That’s how big a change Jackson was from the Virginia and Massachusetts gentlemen who had been president of the United States for the first 40 years.”

Trump campaigned as an outsider candidate in 2016, ultimately defeating Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Virginia Democrat blasts Trump's 'appalling' remark about COVID-19 deaths in 'blue states' The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden asks if public can trust vaccine from Trump ahead of Election Day | Oklahoma health officials raised red flags before Trump rally MORE, the more politically experienced Democratic presidential nominee.

Trump has made cutting federal regulations an early focus of his administration since his Jan. 20 inauguration.

Trump issued an executive order last month stipulating that two regulations must disappear for every one regulation created, although it's not clear how it will be implemented.

A trio of liberal groups sued over the order earlier this month, arguing it exceeds his authority under the Constitution and blocks vital health, safety and environmental protections.

The February lawsuit from the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Communications Workers of America and Public Citizen now seeks to halt the implementation of Trump’s order.