President Donald Trump on Monday laughed at the White House's major negotiation partners as the government headed for the looming shutdown, posting a profan and clearly remodeled video of Democrat minority leader Heicombe Jeffries and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer.
In the video, Schumer, digitally changed, says that he “prefers Democrats anymore” because of “everything about the Awakened Transbulls***.” They incorrectly argue that Democrats falsely support providing undocumented immigrant health care because they need “new voters.”
In Trump's deepfake clip, Silent Jeffries stands alongside the senator wearing a sombrero and a handlebar mustache.
The video appears to be a reference to the misleading GOP claim that Democrats are threatening to shut down the government unless they can reach an agreement to fund healthcare for undocumented people.
Illegal immigrants do not have access to most federally supported healthcare. Instead, Democrats are pushing to maintain affordable care law subsidies that are not available to undocumented people, as well as other health funds that can go to immigrants that are “legally present.”
Jeffries and his fellow Democrats have denounced the White House video, and House leaders called the clip “a malignant distraction from people determined to take over health care” in an interview with MSNBC on Monday night.
“It's a nasty video and we're going to keep making it clear that bias won't let you go anywhere,” Jeffries said. “We are fighting to protect American healthcare in the face of unprecedented Republican attacks.”
Meanwhile, Jeffreys posted a real photo of Trump and his former friend, the late sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, saying “This is real.”
California's Rep. Locanna joined a Democratic colleague and told CNN that he was “unusual” to say the video was “unusual” and unfit for the seriousness of the immediate political moment.
“You don't smirk anyone or put out a video about how they look,” he said. “You don't laugh at people's ethnicity. How do you negotiate with it? And how did we make this a normal thing?”
Kanna also pointed to repeated attempts by the Trump administration to not spend the already approved Congressional money as another factor that disrupts normal negotiations on the closure.
Sen. Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican, defended the president's video, and said the comments in the clip were “jokingly told,” and intended to be a toy “like a little boy” who untook the dog with a flashlight.
“I think he's the president who teases a few people who didn't bring serious offers to the White House,” Marshall told CNN.
Independence I contacted the White House for comments.
Despite a meeting between Vice President JD Vance, Senate majority John Tune, Jeffreys and Schumer on Monday, the parties appear to be out of reach of an agreement to avoid the closure.
