A male Republican C-SPAN caller on Wednesday laughed about President Donald Trump’s Truth Social posts featuring edits of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries donning a sombrero and sporting a mustache.
Trump made the posts after an unfruitful meeting with Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Monday to discuss a short-term spending bill to prevent a government shutdown. “Washington Journal” host John McArdle asked the caller for his opinion on the posts, which the caller did not take seriously and found hilarious.
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“I called Hakeem Jeffries last night and … left him a voicemail. And I wanted to know where he got the sombrero from because I wanted to buy one too, because I thought he looked good in it. And I didn’t know he could grow a mustache that quickly, but I thought he looked real good in that mustache,” the caller joked, laughing raucously, in part appearing to react to Trump’s post being shown on screen.
McArdle followed up by asking the caller if he believed Trump’s posts were helpful in the shutdown negotiation process.
“Help in the process? No, it’s just a joke! See, nobody can take a joke no more. This country is so evil in so many ways that nobody can take a joke anymore,” the caller said, laughing after the second post was shown on screen. “You do not think that is funny? A mariachi band with Donald Trump playing all those instruments and Hakeem Jeffries. That is funny! Come on!”
Democrats, including Jeffries, angrily reacted to Trump’s Monday post by calling it “racist.” The post featured mariachi music and Jeffries standing silently with a sombrero and mustache while Schumer delivered remarks generated by artificial intelligence (AI) about how unpopular the Democratic Party was.
“Mr. President, the next time you have something to say about me, don’t cop out through a racist and fake AI video,” Jeffries told reporters on Tuesday, according to Politico. “When I’m back in the Oval Office, say it to my face.”
The Senate failed to pass a seven-week continuing resolution on Tuesday, falling short of the 60 votes necessary to defeat a Democratic filibuster. Only three senators in the Democratic caucus — John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Angus King of Maine — voted with Republicans to keep the government open.
Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul also voted against the measure, citing its lack of spending cuts. The House had passed the short-term funding bill on Sept. 19.
Democrats have demanded over $1 trillion in funding for priorities such as reinstating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CBP), which will shutter after its funding was clawed back in a rescissions package enacted in July. They also demanded that the resolution extend enhanced tax credits from the Affordable Care Act, which are slated to expire at the end of 2025.
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