As the US government barrels towards a shutdown, President Donald Trump shared a racist video on social media, which seems to be AI-generated, depicting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sporting a sombrero and a mustache and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer talking in a pretend voice.
Jeffries and Schumer met with Trump simply hours earlier than on the White House to debate the looming shutdown.
In the video, Schumer is depicted as arguing for undocumented immigrants to get “free healthcare” as a result of minority voters hate Democrats and they might use the votes within the subsequent election.
As mariachi music performs within the background of the video, the pretend Schumer voice says, “There’s no way to sugar coat it: Nobody likes Democrats anymore.”
The pretend voice goes on to echo false GOP claims about Democratic insurance policies and slam liberal leaders as “woke.”
The video was posted on Trump’s X account as effectively his official Truth Social account. NCS has reached out to the White House for remark.
Shortly after Trump posted the video, Jeffries wrote on X, “Bigotry will get you nowhere. Cancel the Cuts. Lower the Cost. Save Healthcare. We are NOT backing down.”
Schumer adopted moments later, commenting on X, “If you think your shutdown is a joke, it just proves what we all know: You can’t negotiate. You can only throw tantrums.”
The White House assembly between Trump and the 2 Democratic leaders additionally included Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson. It ended with out a deal. Government funding is about to expire Tuesday at Midnight. Democratic leaders have demanded negotiations on well being care funding in alternate for preserving the government open.
Speaking to reporters on the White House, Schumer known as Trump the final word “decision maker” and stated, “If he will accept some of the things we ask, which we think the American people are for on healthcare and on rescissions, he can avoid a shutdown, but there’s still large differences between us.”
In the social media publish, Trump supplied a glimpse of his mindset in the direction of Democrats, whom he in the end must preserve the government open.
Earlier on the White House, Jeffries pressured that Democrats wish to prolong Affordable Care Act subsidies. Meanwhile, Republicans need a clear funding invoice to push by way of Congress to maintain the government open as negotiations proceed. The subsidies don’t expire till the top of the yr.
“More than 20 million Americans are on the brink of experiencing dramatically increased premiums, co-pays and deductibles because of the Republican refusal to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits which benefit working class Americans,” Jeffries stated. “Working-class Americans, their health care, that’s what we’re fighting to preserve, to defend and to strengthen.”