Hakeem Jeffries: President’s ‘Erratic Behavior’ Proves He’s ‘Unserious’ About Ending ‘Trump-Republican’ Shutdown

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries slammed President Donald Trump as “unhinged” and warned that the “erratic” AI social media attacks are “further confirmation” that the president is “unserious” about ending the government shutdown.

Since the government shutdown began, Trump has taken to posting mocking AI videos of Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, wearing sombreros with mariachi music, while repeatedly blaming Democrats for the crisis.

Meanwhile the president has also touted that the shutdown is an “opportunity” to implement major cuts and mass firings across the federal government.

Morning Joe co-host Jonathan Lemire pressed Jeffries on Trump’s “antics” – posts which the Democrat called “racist” – and what they meant.

Jeffries replied that the “behavior” was “further confirmation” that Republicans were “clearly determined” to shut down the government before mocking the president in return:

Everything that President Trump has done subsequent to Monday has been unhinged and unserious. In fact, Donald Trump is in the presidential witness protection program – no one can find him when it comes to the government shutdown issue, because he knows he’s responsible for having caused it. And the behavior, the erratic behavior that we’ve seen is further confirmation of that unfortunate fact.

Yet as Democrats, Leader Schumer, myself, House Democrats, Senate Democrats, we’ve been clear. Listen, we’ll sit down in good faith. We need to reopen the government in this Trump Republican government shutdown, and we can find a bipartisan path toward a spending agreement. But that spending agreement has to actually meet the needs of the American people in terms of their health, their safety and their economic well-being, particularly as it relates to driving down the high cost of living and lowering health care costs, as opposed to driving millions of Americans into medical bankruptcy because of the Republicans’ refusal to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits.

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