And now for a moment of clarity.

Several agencies, including the Department of Housing and Urban Development, put up banners on their websites blaming the, quote, radical left for the shutdown.

Now House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia is asking the Office of the Special Counsel to investigate, quote, the Trump administration's apparent violations of the Hatch Act and illegal use of government resources to promote a false partisan Republican political agenda.

And breaking while we were on the air, the White House just posted another racist video of Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero, promising to do so every day until the government reopens.

Yeah, okay.

Okay. Can we start where Michael ended, Alicia? Because I think a lot of times in our society, microaggressions or things that are actual racism are depicted as jokes are just being petty.

Even the vice president of United States of America, Jady Vance said, oh, the president is just joking.

But the reality is that putting the highest ranking leader for the Democrats in a sombrero,

who also happens to be black, by the way, the first black leader of either party in the House of Representatives in a sombrero is trying to make him a caricature.

It is using the identity

that of, of, of really Mexicans as a, as a joke. It's just like I, it is, it is meant to demean.

It's meant to poke fun at it. It's meant to say, you are unsurious.

We are not taking you seriously.

And I'm sorry, but I don't think that people are calling this country our joke.

I don't think the Latino and Hispanic community is a joke.

And I don't think that it should be acceptable to anyone what the president is doing.

He is literally posting a little racist AI meme at this point a couple times a day.

Well, look at it this way.

If they had chosen two other ethnic groups to do that with, what would the reaction be?

And I put it that way, it's because the Hispanic and the African-American communities have been for a lot of folks in this

particular universe, this Magaverse, the easy target. Trump does this because his people like it.

They feed off of this. They take it and then they rescind it. They take it and they apply AI and

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