GOP Leaders Lose Control on Live TV Over Trump’s Behavior

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0	GOP leaders are absolutely losing it as they and Donald Trump have sent the United States government into a shutdown.
0:07.8	Now they're pretending like they haven't even heard the things that Donald Trump's been saying.
0:13.6	Hear no evil, see no evil. I guess that it doesn't even exist.
0:18.0	Let me explain to you and show you what they're actually doing. You have Maga Republican
0:22.7	Senator Ron Johnson. He was asked on CNN how he feels about Donald Trump using AI images of
0:31.4	Democratic leader, Hakeem Jeffries, wearing a sombrero and putting a mustache on him and putting AI words into the mouth of
0:40.4	Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer.
0:42.7	Like, do you think that is a good faith way to deal with very serious negotiations about
0:48.0	the shutdown?
0:49.1	And Republican Senator Ron Johnson from Wisconsin says, I don't know. I didn't see it. I have no clue what
0:55.7	you're talking about. First time I'm hearing about it. I can't comment. Here, play this clip.
0:59.8	President Trump posted an AI generated depiction of minority leader Hakeem Jeffries in a sombrero and
1:07.8	mustache. Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic House leader responded saying, bigotry will get you nowhere. What was your response to this if you saw it? Are you comfortable with your party leader posting? Things like this? I honestly haven't seen it. Don't know what you're talking about. Okay. That's the thing. These people are so pathetic where you confront them with what Donald Trump says and they go, I don't
1:28.2	hear it or they try to like make a joke about it. I mean, you have Senator John Thune from South
1:33.6	Dakota, the leader of the Republicans in the Senate, used to be like viewed as a serious guy,
1:40.2	moderate guy. Now he's full-fledged MAGA. And so he was asked by Jesse Waters.
1:45.3	So have you heard them ever talk so much about a sombrero?
1:49.2	And then Senator Thune's like, you know, we're getting great content out of it.
1:53.6	You know, we kind of never thought we can get this kind of vibe.
1:57.5	We're getting real good content.
1:59.6	You're getting good content? The American people are
2:03.1	suffering and you are bragging about getting social media content for your weirdo
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