Overview

• Trump posted the video Monday night on Truth Social and X, hours after a White House meeting with Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries on keeping the government funded.
• The 35-second clip shows Hakeem Jeffries overlaid with a sombrero and mustache as a deepfake voice of Schumer delivers an expletive-filled rant and claims Democrats want to give undocumented immigrants free healthcare.
• Jeffries called the video “disgusting” and a “malignant distraction,” and Schumer said it shows the president cannot negotiate, with both sharing responses on X and in TV interviews.
• Republican Sen. Roger Marshall defended the post on CNN as being “in jest,” while numerous commentators criticized it as racist and inappropriate during tense budget talks.
• The video’s healthcare claim is misleading, as federal law restricts undocumented immigrants from most federally backed coverage while Democrats push to extend ACA subsidies for eligible enrollees, and the funding deadline is 11:59 p.m. Tuesday with no deal announced.