President Donald Trump thinks Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY.) should be charged with āinciting violenceā connected to the White House Correspondents Dinner shooting in April.
The president made his feelings known in a Thursday morning post on Truth Social.
āThis lunatic, Hakeem āLow IQā Jeffries, should be charged with INCITING VIOLENCE! The Radical Left Democrats actually want to Destroy our Country. President DJTā Trump wrote.
The post included a meme of a CCTV still the moment shooting suspect Allen Cole rushed a Secret Service checkpoint at the event along with an image of Jeffries at a party presser about redistricting efforts on April 21.
At the presser, Jeffries stood beside a poster of Trumpās face that read, āMaximum warfare everywhere all the time.ā
Jeffries defended the phrasing after the White House Correspondentsā Dinner when GOP lawmakers criticized it.
āI donāt give a damn about the criticism.ā Jeffries said of the phrase, which he said was borrowed from a source quote in a 2025 āNew York Timesā article referencing political battles over congressional maps.
Earlier this week, Trump questioned why Jeffries was not āsubject to Impeachmentā after the Jeffries criticized the Supreme Court as āillegitimateā over its ruling that race-based gerrymandering violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965.