President Donald Trump shared a bizarre, demeaning, racist AI-generated parody video featuring House Minority Leader (D-N.Y.) Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) earlier this week. He then doubled down and shared another offensive clip on Tuesday night, just before the government entered a shutdown. And people online are flat-out concerned that we’re all becoming numb to the president’s antics.
Trump met with Jeffries and Schumer in a high-stakes private meeting at the White House on Monday, but the top Democrats, the president and GOP leaders who were all present at the meeting failed to reach an agreement on health care funding to prevent the government from shutting down.
Democrats have been pushing for an extension to the Affordable Care Act tax credits passed during the COVID-19 pandemic to subsidize health care. Those tax credits are set to expire at the end of the year, which would result in skyrocketing monthly insurance premiums for millions of Americans. The federal government entered a shutdown early Wednesday morning.
Schumer told reporters after the meeting with Trump that there were still “very large differences,” between them, but that they all had “candid, frank discussions” and that the president was “really listening to us.”
