MSNBC’s Jen Psaki Straight-Up Asks Jeffries What He’ll ‘Say to Trump’s Face’ Next Time After ‘Racist’ Attacks

MSNBC host and former Biden White House press secretary Jen Psaki straight-up asked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) what he would say “to his [President Donald Trump’s] face” after a pair of attacks that Jeffries called “racist.”

Trump posted a fake AI video of Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Monday featuring Jeffries in a sombrero and moustache, and Schumer spewing fabricated dialogue over a mariachi soundtrack.

Jeffries responded to the attack by daring Trump to say it to his face.

On Tuesday’s edition of MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki, the host noted Trump made a second attack using the same racist caricature, and asked Jeffries what would go down the next time he and Trump shared the same space:

PSAKI: We’ve been — there’s been — you’ve been through, I’ve been through a lot of shutdowns and negotiations. Often they’re on the level, as my mother would say. This is — does not appear to be, in part, because Trump is continuing to post racist and bizarre AI videos. There’s one of you and Leader Schumer last night. I’m not going to play that. But just in the last hour, he posted another one of you.

Today, you said, which is a pretty strong comeback, the next time you have something to say about me, don’t cop out through a racist and fake AI video, when I’m back in the Oval Office, say it to my face. It’s — it’s the pushing back that I think is very powerful in this moment. I’ve got to ask, I mean, when you’re back in the Oval Office, you may be, what are you going to say to his face about all this?

JEFFRIES: Well, I’m certainly going to make it clear that we need from the president of the United States an individual who actually is focused on doing his job as opposed to engaging in racist or bigoted stereotypes designed to try to distract or throw us off as Democrats from what we need to do on behalf of the American people. And it ain’t going to happen. And we’re not going to be intimidated by this guy or by the Republicans who currently are divorced from the reality of the situation that, as Democrats, we don’t work for Donald Trump, we don’t work for Vice President [JD] Vance. We don’t work for their billionaire donors. We work for the American people. That’s why we’ve drawn this line in the sand. And our view will continue to be, cancel the cuts, lower the costs, save health care.

PSAKI: Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, I’ll just repeat before I let you go, this is about Republicans being unwilling to fund subsidies that help millions of people stay on health care. That is what the holdup is. I appreciate you joining me tonight. Thank you so much.

Watch above via MSNBC’s The Briefing with Jen Psaki.