President Donald Trump thinks Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY.) should be charged with “inciting violence” connected to the White House Correspondents Dinner shooting in April.
The president made his feelings known in a Thursday morning post on Truth Social.
“This lunatic, Hakeem “Low IQ” Jeffries, should be charged with INCITING VIOLENCE! The Radical Left Democrats actually want to Destroy our Country. President DJT” 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 Trump’s face that read, “Maximum warfare everywhere all the time.”
Jeffries defended the phrasing after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner when GOP lawmakers criticized it.
“I don’t give a damn about the criticism.” Jeffries said of the phrase, which he said was borrowed from a source quote in a 2025 “New York Times” article referencing political battles over congressional maps.
Earlier this week, Trump questioned why Jeffries was not “subject to Impeachment” after the Jeffries criticized the Supreme Court as “illegitimate” over its ruling that race-based gerrymandering violates the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
