The Patriot Post® · Shutdowns, Sombreros, and Mustaches — Oh My!
Democrats are always shrieking with indignant self-righteous outrage about something, and this time, it’s a couple of AI videos President Donald Trump posted on social media.
Dems have been calling Republicans Nazis and fascists for decades, leading to not one but two assassination attempts on Trump and a successful assassination of Charlie Kirk, but they’re upset over a humor video? Give me a break.
The video portrays Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer explaining why everyone hates Democrats and what their real strategy is for causing the government shutdown this week — giving “illegal aliens free healthcare” as a ploy for votes. That’s very funny (and also kind of true, which I’ll explain later). Putting a sombrero and mustache on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries while a mariachi band plays in the background is silly and totally hilarious.
And hoo boy are Democrats big mad.
Here’s the video (foul language warning):
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2025
I’ve watched it a dozen times at least, and I’ve laughed out loud every time. Is such low-brow comedy beneath the dignity of the office of the presidency? Sure. Is it simply treating the ridiculous Democrats with all the seriousness they deserve? You better believe it.
Welcome to 2025.
Schumer handled it by … reposting the video, albeit with a finger-wagging response: “If you think your shutdown is a joke, it just proves what we all know: You can’t negotiate. You can only throw tantrums.” From the Senate floor, he fussed about the “deeply offensive” video and Trump’s “trolling away on the internet like a 10-year-old.”
Jeffries posted, “Bigotry will get you nowhere. Cancel the Cuts. Lower the Cost. Save Healthcare. We are NOT backing down.” He attached a picture from the real moment he and Schumer upbraided the president outside the White House after their meeting earlier this week.
He tried being macho in a stump speech, telling Trump, “The next time you have something to say about me … say it to my face.”
Sounds like somebody took too much Tylenol.
He was a lot less macho on MSNBC, whining to Lawrence O'Donnell, “It’s a disgusting video, and we’re gonna continue to make clear: bigotry will get you nowhere.”
Trump responded by posting that clip and, immediately after Jeffries finished that line, putting an AI sombrero and mustache on him again with a four-man Trump mariachi band in the background.
It’s even funnier than the first video:
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 1, 2025
As if to put icing on this whole delightful cake, Vice President JD Vance — Mr. Meme himself — told the White House press corps that “you can negotiate in good faith while also poking a little bit of fun at some of the absurdities of the Democrats.” To Jeffries specifically, he said, “I make this solemn promise to you that if you help us reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.”
Holy moly, this is funny!
Again, leftists don’t think much of anything is funny, so they’ve been stomping their feet and pulling their hair in objection. Jeffries called the video “racist,” but Vance responded, “I honestly don’t even know what that means. Is he a Mexican-American who feels offended by a sombrero meme?”
Undaunted by truth or humor, the Leftmedia simply parroted Jeffries. “Racist tropes,” huffed USA Today. “Racist, AI-generated,” scolded CNN. You get the idea, though none of them explain why the videos are “racist.”
There is one exception to the humor bit, and that’s Gavin Newsom, who’s spent the last few months doing his worst impression of Donald Trump’s social media style. He posted a couple of AI videos of Vance to get back at Team Trump.
As The Babylon Bee’s Kyle Mann wryly noted, “Gavin should be thankful we at @TheBabylonBee sued the state of California and got the law he signed to stop people from parodying politicians using A.I. overturned.”
Okay, now let’s get serious for a moment. (Sigh, I know.)
Why did Democrats force this shutdown? Healthcare, which needs some background explanation that begins in 2008.
Way back in the heady days of Barack Obama, Democrats decided to use their huge congressional majorities and the White House to create ObamaCare, roughly as its namesake campaigned on in 2008. What is fascism? That question has been prevalent in recent days, and one answer is ObamaCare. Fascism is the federal government dictating what product private companies sell and then forcing every American to buy that product. That the Supreme Court upheld this unconstitutional monstrosity will forever be a stain on John Roberts’s record.
Conservatives warned that the policy and the law would make healthcare and health insurance vastly more expensive. Lo and behold, the last decade and a half has borne that out. We also couldn’t keep our doctors and plans like Obama lied that we would.
In 2021, to hide the massive cost increases they caused, Democrats again utilized their majorities and the Joe Biden White House to pass taxpayer-funded subsidies for ObamaCare in a stated attempt to get more people to sign up. They justified it as a COVID emergency, and they authorized the spending for just two years. In 2022, they came along with the grossly misnamed Inflation Reduction Act and extended the subsidies for three more years. Never let a crisis go to waste, right?
They never reduced the cost of healthcare, mind you. They just added millions more people to the ObamaCare rolls and gave the bill to taxpayers — in fact, future generations through deficit spending.
Those subsidies are quickly running out, however, and Americans who currently receive “free” or very low-premium health insurance aren’t going to like it much when their bill goes up in 2026. With a midterm election to win, Democrats can’t have that.
Hence, the current fight. They’re demanding that Republicans — none of whom voted for ObamaCare or either version of the subsidies — allow a very expensive extension of “emergency” funding to be included in the continuing resolution to keep the government open. And they want Americans to blame Republicans for the resulting shutdown. (Thanks to Leftmedia propaganda and pollaganda, it seems to be working.)
Worse, Democrats want to repeal provisions from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that rolled back some of ObamaCare, including one that blocked illegal aliens from receiving taxpayer-funded healthcare benefits.
“The Biden administration gave mass parole to millions upon millions of illegal aliens and then they simultaneously made those parolees eligible for healthcare benefits funded by taxpayers,” Vance explained. “In the One Big Beautiful Bill, President Trump and congressional Republicans turned off that funding for healthcare to illegal aliens. And Democrats want to turn it back on.”
Cue the Leftmedia “fact-checks” accusing Republicans of lying about this. Their justification? That the Biden administration waved the magic autopen to simply dub illegal aliens “lawfully present.” This legal charade, the Leftmedia and Democrats reason, means the people getting taxpayer-funded healthcare aren’t technically “illegals.” But it’s all a lie.
Beyond the semantics games, some of the money we’re talking about is for Medicaid, which goes to the states — some of which dole out benefits regardless of legal status.
Now you understand the sombreros and why Democrats are actually mad. They fear that too many Americans will see their game and disapprove. So they caterwaul about “racism” and “fascism” rather than have a substantive debate about the merits of their policies.
It’s not to say that Republicans don’t face risks of a real backlash, but Trump, Vance, and others are treating Democrats with all the disrespect they’ve earned.