Dems Scripted Their Response To Trump’s Speech Before Hearing It And They Don’t Care If You Know
Senate Dems are doing roughly the equivalent of those 'copy and paste this or something bad will happen to you' emails from middle school.Senate Dems are doing roughly the equivalent of those 'copy and paste this or something bad will happen to you' emails from middle school.25 Dem senators parrot same script in videos slamming Trump, Musk
On Tuesday, 25 Democratic senators released separate videos parroting the same script slamming President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
In the morning, Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) were mocked by X users for posting videos reciting near-identical lines before Trump's first speech to Congress.
'Who is writing the words that the puppets speak?'
However, as the day unfolded, more than two dozen Democratic senators posted similar videos echoing the same script, including Dick Durbin (Ill.), Chris Coons (Del.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Tammy Duckworth (Ill.), Tim Kaine (Va.), Chris Van Hollen (Md.), Gary Peters (Mich.), Mazie Hirono (Hawaii), Peter Welch (Vt.), Ben Ray Luján (N.M.), Martin Heinrich (N.M.), Jeff Merkley (Ore.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.), Brian Schatz (Hawaii), Andy Kim (N.J.), Alex Padilla (Calif.), Mark Warner (Va.), Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Angela Alsobrooks (Md.), Ed Markey (Mass.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.).
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The senators' videos matched so closely that many followed the same movements for the introduction: reading the first line before taking a seat to continue reading the remainder of the script.
The video opened with a short clip of Trump vowing to lower the cost of living for Americans beginning on the first day of his presidency.
"S*** that ain't true," all of the Democrats stated. "That's what you just saw."
"Since day one of Donald Trump's presidency, prices are up, not down. Inflation is getting worse, not better. The prices of groceries, gas, housing, eggs, they're all getting more expensive. Meanwhile, Donald Trump has done nothing to lower costs for you," they said with slight variations.
"Instead, he's pardoned violent criminals who beat police officers on January 6," the videos continued, cutting from the senators to show a clip from the protest at the Capitol.
"He's letting Elon Musk take a chainsaw to vital government programs. And then, even worse, giving him access to Americans' most sensitive data — Social Security numbers, tax returns, health care bills," the Democrats stated.
They accused Trump and Musk of firing "thousands of essential workers" and freezing funding for "vital programs."
"Why are they doing this? Trump, Musk, DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] are taking these vital services away from you for one reason only: so they can give tax breaks to their billionaires' club," they added.
"Billionaires win; families lose. And that is the truth," the senators concluded.
Musk fired back at the Democratic senators for repeating the same lines.
"They are all actors reading a script," he wrote on X.
In a separate post, he called the senators "lazy propagandists."
"Who is writing the words that the puppets speak? That's the real question," Musk added.
Republican Senator Mike Lee (Utah) also responded to the controversy.
"It's almost like someone's telling Democrats what to say," Lee wrote.
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Dem senators express regret over confirmation votes after Rubio backs Trump in Zelenskyy spat
The U.S. Senate voted unanimously on Jan. 20 to confirm Marco Rubio as secretary of state.
Some Democratic senators who apparently mistook Rubio for someone they could count on to defy and subvert the president are now experiencing regret over their votes in light of their former peer's sustained support for President Donald Trump, particularly for his approach to Ukraine and its president.
Trump and Vice President JD Vance had a heated exchange in the Oval Office Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which resulted in the cancellation of the presidents' planned joint press conference as well as the signing of the proposed minerals deal.
Trump's admonishment of Zelenskyy in person and later on social media — over his perceived lack of gratitude, displays of disrespect for the U.S., and jeopardization of possible peace talks — found widespread resonance, and the incident made some of Zelenskyy's staunchest advocates, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), question their support.
There were, however, numerous critics who took umbrage with Trump's remarks regarding Zelenskyy.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and a handful of other Republican lawmakers joined Democrats, establishment media pundits, and foreign dignitaries in suggesting that Trump's remarks to and about Zelenskyy evidenced a desire to both abandon Ukraine and embrace Russia.
In the face of such critiques, Secretary of State Rubio defended the approach taken by the president Friday as well as Trump's suggestion that Zelenskyy was openly undermining efforts to bring about peace.
'It's unfortunate.'
Rubio told CNN's Kaitlan Collins just hours after the fracas that there was an understanding established in the days preceding the Friday meeting that the proposed minerals deal — which Zelenskyy could have signed several days earlier — amounts to a de facto security guarantee and that it was critical to get Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table. However, the Ukrainian president ambushed Trump and Vance with a lecture "about how diplomacy isn't going to work."
"President Zelenskyy took it in that direction, and it ended in a predictable outcome as a result," said Rubio. "It's unfortunate. That wasn't supposed to be this way, but that's the path he chose and I think, frankly, sends his country backwards in regards to achieving peace, which is what President Trump wants at the end of the day — is for this war to end."
Rubio, who in the previous week defended Trump's "dictator" critique of Zelenskyy, suggested further to Collins that the Ukrainian president should apologize "for turning this thing into the fiasco for him that it became," adding that "there was no need for him to go in there and become antagonistic."
Rubio later reiterated to ABC News talking head George Stephanopoulos that Zelenskyy understood ahead of the Friday meeting that peace is a prerequisite for security guarantees and that discussions of deterrents were pointless before negotiations.
"The question now is, 'Can we get them to a table to negotiate?' That's our goal. Don't do anything to disrupt that, and that's what Zelenskyy did, unfortunately — is he found every opportunity to try to Ukraine-splain on every issue. Then he confronts the vice president," said Rubio. "When the vice president says the goal here is diplomacy, [Zelenskyy] immediately jumps in and challenges the vice president. Well, what kind of diplomacy?"
"I really am puzzled why anyone thinks that trying to be a peacemaker is a bad thing. It's only a bad thing when it's Donald Trump trying to do it, when it's President Trump. It's absurd to me," added Rubio.
'It's very different from what Senator Rubio used to talk about.'
When asked by CNN talking head Dana Bash whether he made the right choice in voting to confirm Rubio, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy (Conn.) said, "Nope. It was a mistake. It was a mistake."
"I think a lot of us thought that Marco Rubio was going to stand up to Donald Trump on an issue like this," continued Murphy. "I thought that when Donald Trump decided to do that, when Donald Trump would come to him and say, 'Help me move America closer to Russia and to Russian values,' Marco Rubio would stand up to him. Marco Rubio has not, and that's been a great disappointment to many of his former colleagues in the Senate."
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who has been publicly expressing remorse over his Rubio vote for weeks, told "Fox News Sunday," "I regret that vote because as a member of the Senate, Secretary Rubio was somebody who stood up for American values, for American principles."
"He acknowledged that Russia was the aggressor against Ukraine. He realized it wasn't Zelenskyy who was the dictator," said Van Hollen. "And now he's simply taking his directions at the State Department from Elon Musk and essentially parodying the president's position, which I understand, but it's very different from what Senator Rubio used to talk about."
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Mark Levin GOES OFF on ‘Democrat Islamist’ Chris Van Hollen for arguing Gaza deserves ‘self-determination’
To give the people of Gaza “self-determination” would mean death to Jews and Israelis. Such a privilege would only lead to the re-election of Hamas and the perpetuation of its violent agenda.
But apparently this common sense is lost on Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) — “a Democrat islamist” who’s one of the worst Hamas apologists in Congress, says Mark Levin.
In a recent hearing, Sen. Van Hollen pressed U.N. ambassador nominee Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) to vow that she believes Palestinians have a right to self-determination.
“[President Trump] said he wants to bring long-term peace and security to the region. Clearly Hamas can have no role in that future, but long-term peace must include security, self-determination, and dignity for Israelis and Palestinians alike,” he began, before attempting to force Stefanik into agreeing with the statement that “in order to achieve long-term peace and stability in the Middle East," "we have to secure the human rights and rights of self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians.”
Levin lambastes Van Hollen for his ignorance.
“You talk about dignity and self-determination among Palestinians? Well, where is it? They're slaughtering each other,” he says.
“Even though Gaza is Israeli territory, always has been, for thousands of years — it's actually a beautiful place, or was. … They could have built industries there; they could build tourist attractions,” he points out. “They had all the opportunity in the world, all the money in the world from one foreign government after another and UNRWA — the terrorist organization working for the terrorist United Nations — and what do they do with all this money?”
“They built an underground cave system to slaughter people — slaughter their own people — and yet they're the most popular party among the Palestinians,” Levin says. “But we're going to give them a state, and we're going to carve it out of the ancestral homeland of the Jews?”
As for Van Hollen’s insistence that we need to “secure the human rights and self-determination” of Palestinians, Levin asks, “How do we secure the human rights and self-determination of a people that don't even want to secure it for themselves?”
Pointing out a long list of barbarities committed by Hamas and the Palestinians who put the regime in power, he says it’s clear that “they don't give a damn about their self-determination."
Further, many of the victims who were slaughtered on October 7 were socially liberal Jews who voted against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and supported the idea of “cultural relationships with the Palestinians in Gaza.”
But did that stop Hamas from murdering them in cold blood? Of course not.
“How many Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East have self-determination? How many democracies are there?” Levin then asks. “Exactly zero. You have a military dictatorship, you have monarchy dictatorships, you have Islamic dictatorships; there are no democracies.”
“So this one place we're going to have self-determination? Where people are committed to slaughtering the Jews and the Israelis from the river to the sea? And we have to ensure their self-determination?” he asks in disgust.
“No, there is no self-determination because they don't want it.”
To hear Mark Levin rip into Senator Van Hollen, watch the clip above.
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Democrats hatch new plan to force reforms they want on Supreme Court: 'Use the power of the purse'
Democratic lawmakers may use the power of the purse to force reforms onto the Supreme Court.
Amid complaints of impropriety against Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch — none of which has been proved to be actually unethical or illegal — Senate Democrats are demanding that the Supreme Court reform its ethical code.
Despite the justices agreeing to abide by one — which Chief Justice John Roberts recently sent Senate Democrats — lawmakers critical of the court say it's not transparent enough. While all federal judges are bound by an ethical code of conduct, justices on the Supreme Court have their own, which they independently create and abide by.
But if the Supreme Court does not comply with demands for ethical reform, Senate Democrats may leverage their appropriations power to force the reform.
Specifically, lawmakers are exploring adding language to the court's appropriations bill that would compel justices "to adopt more stringent, transparent ethics rules, as well as procedures for enforcing those rules," The Hill reported.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), chairman of the Senate subcommittee that provides oversight of the court's budget, confirmed to The Hill that lawmakers are exploring "all the options."
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), the leading voice behind the effort, said the court itself has justified Congress using its budget power to compel other branches to act.
"There are court decisions that say very clearly that, in interbranch disputes, it is completely appropriate and proper for the legislative branch to use the power of the purse to influence the other branches in doing what they ought to be doing," Whitehouse told The Hill.
Anything else?
Last month, Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin invited Roberts to testify at a court hearing, which took place on Tuesday, on judicial ethics.
But Roberts did not attend, citing a concern that doing so would violate the separation of powers. Supreme Court justices have testified before Congress in rare instances only, Roberts told Durbin.
The decision further outraged Democrats.
"But make no mistake: Supreme Court ethics reform must happen whether the Court participates in the process or not," Durbin said in response. "It is time for Congress to accept its responsibility to establish an enforceable code of ethics for the Supreme Court, the only agency of our government without it."
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