Posted on 03/23/2026 1:37:46 AM PDT by Libloather
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, rebuked President Donald Trump on Sunday and said he should keep his "reckless mouth shut" after the president called Democrats the "greatest enemy" in America.
"Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democratic Party! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT," the president wrote on Truth Social.
CNN's Dana Bash asked Jeffries to react to the statement during Sunday's "State of the Union."
"Donald Trump should keep his reckless mouth shut before he gets somebody killed," Jeffries said.
Jeffries also spoke to Bash about the war in Iran, which he described as a "reckless war of choice."
"They clearly didn't anticipate some of the things that have happened, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. What you're seeing right now are gas prices are through the roof, and that's adding to an environment in America right now where life has already become too expensive for the American people because of failed policies by Donald Trump," he said.
Jeffries did not say whether he would support any more funding for the Pentagon or whether he would urge Democrats to vote "no."
"Well, we'll have that leadership conversation when we actually have a piece of legislation that is in front of us. But I can tell you, uh, there is strong opposition right now to the notion that this war of choice — that is reckless, that's costing the American people now more than $30 billion — should continue. We need to move, which we plan on doing in short order, a War Powers Resolution so we can bring this situation to a close," he said.
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Hakeem Jeffries is neither stupid nor insane.
He is evil.
He thinks YOU are stupid and insane ... enough to believe his nonsense.
So *thats* where “ice people” came from. I learned something today.
Temu Obama, ah, I mean Hack keem Jeffries uses words beyond his level of literacy.
His delivery is the problem. He comes off as a no-confidence, whiny, little kid, with no possibility of delivering his threats.
He, like most democrats, just likes to see his name posted on the internets.
The tough-guy image he’s trying to convey, is just pathetic.
Reminds of Chris Rock - Will Smith slapping incident. Smith said “Keep my wife’s name out your f*cking mouth!”. Extreme Hakeem’s thuggish response just proves Trump is right.
Completely incapable of introspection.
Jeffries competes with Kamala in “defining dumb”.
And, he is proof that Democrats ARE the prime enemy of our country.
It’s ridiculous to suggest that Trump and the military didn’t anticipate that the Strait might be closed.
These people think we’re idiots.
B Y their own description ANYONE who disagrees with them is evil. How then do they imagine that their opposites can do anything but regard them the same way? THEY set the standard.
Yeah, it's all Trump's fault. President Joe Biden tried his best but couldn't quite fix the rampant inflation that happened during Trump's first term. Trump cheated him out of his second term when he would have finally fixed all of our economic problems and he would have ensured that the world would be at peace forever.
DEI minority leader.
The President was quoting bert, who has made the accusation many times
The truth hurts.
LOL
Charlie Kirk unavailable for comment
Hopefully, this signals no mercy on the l ft.
This is rich after all of the "Trump is Hitler" hype.
Why the long face Hakeem?
Hak’em is his own biggest fan. What a fool. He needs his face slapped.
Absolutely right!
As minority groups smarten up the democrat party needs to scream disinformation but it isn’t working their base is flipping.
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