President Donald Trump had a few choice words in describing the Democratic Party as the federal government remains shutdown.
Trump took to social media Thursday night to post a collage of Democrats Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) plus former President Joe Biden and former first lady Jill Biden, per Mediaite.
The words “The Party of Hate, Evil, and Satan” are included along with “The Democratic Party is Dead! They have no leadership! no message! no hope! their only message for America is to hate Trump!”
The government has been shut down since midnight Wednesday after a stopgap funding measure failed to pass the Republican majority Senate where the vote was 53-47. Sixty votes are needed.
Schumer seeks to barter Democratic votes in exchange for an extension of COVID-era healthcare premium subsidies for Obamacare.
The cost is immense for more than 20 million Americans if those subsidies are not extended.
Their premiums could more than double each month from $888 a month to $1,904. The subsidies expire Dec. 31.
Trump also made a post on social media boasting he had presided over “record Black employment” while also claiming there was “record Black imprisonment” under former President Bill Clinton and “record Black welfare” under former President Barack Obama.
CNN has since reported that claim was false.
Trump and the GOP have also claimed Democrats want unauthorized immigrants to receive government healthcare — a measure that is illegal and a claim also shot down by CNN fact-checking.
Members of the GOP have beseeched Democrats to tone down their rhetoric in the aftermath of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination in September.
However, Trump has warned of the “enemy within” as he defended his deployment of the military in the U.S.
