The latest shutdown showdown found corporate media keyed up over whether or not it was “appropriate” for the president to use AI “in jest” against “disingenuous” top Democrats.
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In addition to holding a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu toward attaining peace in Gaza, President Donald Trump met with the leaders of Congress on Monday to discuss government funding. By Monday evening, the chief executive had rankled the left anew with an AI-altered video of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) that found outlets pressing for a response.
This included CNN’s Kaitlan Collins who took time during a Monday interview to ask Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall (R) whether or not it was appropriate for the president to share the video of the Democrats set to mariachi music and featuring Jeffries wearing a sombrero with a large mustache superimposed on his face while Schumer said, “Look guys, there’s no way to sugarcoat it. Nobody likes Democrats anymore. We have no voters left because of all our woke, trans bullsh*t. Not even black people want to vote for us anymore. Even Latinos hate us.”
“So, we need new voters. And if we give all these illegal aliens free healthcare, we might be able to get ’em on our side so they can vote for us,” the altered Schumer continued. “They can’t even speak English, so they won’t realize we’re just a bunch of woke pieces of sh*t, you know? At least for a while, until they learn English and they realize they hate us too.”
The video left Collins asking her guest, “Is that appropriate, in your view?”
“Look, I think sometimes the president plays with the press like a little boy, and a flashlight and a dog. And he’s shining the flashlight here, and he’s shining it there,” began Marshall’s response, calling out the media before turning to the issue at hand. “What he’s saying is, this offer from the Democrats is ridiculous: $1.5 trillion on top of funding that they already agreed to, that what they’re asking for is completely ridiculous.”
“It’s disingenuous,” he added before faulting the left’s policies for issues with rural hospitals that had become a point of contention in the funding showdown.
To that, Collins wondered, “But couldn’t the president just say, ‘These demands are ridiculous,’ and not post a video with Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero, and, you know, putting that voice over Senator Schumer talking about people of color and immigrants?”
“I think he’s said that several times already,” Marshall suggested before reiterating his position that Democrats had not presented a serious offer and added, “in my estimation, Chuck Schumer wants the government to shut down to settle a political score.”
Before the interview ended, Collins pressed one more time, “Just to be clear, you don’t have any objections to that video the president posted?” only to have her guest respond, “I think it’s said in jest. I think it’s the president making fun of a couple of people that didn’t bring a serious request to the White House.”
Meanwhile, Jeffries made his own appearance on MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” where his social media response was given an anemic boost by Lawrence O’Donnell.
The host shared the congressman’s response to the president’s video, which was simply an old photo of Trump beside Jeffrey Epstein with the caption, “This is real,” with the question, “Is that gonna be your full reply to Donald Trump on the fake video he put out about you, caricaturing you in that video?”
(Video Credit: MSNBC)
“Yeah, Leader Schumer and I will have more to say about this issue. But again, this is all designed to be a malignant distraction from people who are determined to continue to rip healthcare away from the American people,” contended Jeffries. “And Democrats are resolved to stand up for it. They are lying about what we’re asking to do.”
“We will continue to defend the healthcare of everyday Americans,” he added in the same interview. He insisted, “It’s a disgusting video. Bigotry will get you nowhere.”
Despite the talk from the left, it remains up to Democrats to avert a shutdown by having at least seven join the 53 Republican senators to attain the 60-vote threshold needed, as Schumer helped accomplish in March.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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