Jeffries To Trump After Online Jab: ‘Keep Your Reckless Mouth Shut’
“Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democratic Party!”
In a Sunday morning post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump wrote: “Now with the death of Iran, the greatest enemy America has is the Radical Left, Highly Incompetent, Democratic Party! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DJT.”
While the jury is still out on the death of Iran, Trump was spot on in his assessment of the Democratic Party whose dangerous agenda has undermined national security as well as the safety and prosperity of U.S. citizens for more than a decade.
During an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union,” host Dana Bash asked House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) to respond to Trump’s incendiary remark. He angrily replied, “Donald Trump should keep his reckless mouth shut before he gets somebody killed.”
🚨 Dem Leader Erupts: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries blasts President Trump, saying he should “keep his reckless mouth shut” as tensions spike.pic.twitter.com/bk8B0BNua6
— Derrick Evans (@DerrickEvans4WV) March 22, 2026
It sounds as if Trump hit a nerve, doesn’t it? But he was right. No enemy could have inflicted more damage on the country than the enemy within.
Jeffries went on to describe the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran as a “reckless war of choice.” (Apparently, he likes the word reckless.) And he spouted all of the current Democratic talking points.
They clearly didn’t anticipate some of the things that have happened, including the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. What you’re seeing right now are gas prices are through the roof, and that’s adding to an environment in America right now where life has already become too expensive for the American people because of failed policies by Donald Trump.
Asked if he would support the administration’s request for additional funding for the war, Jeffries said:
Well, we’ll have that leadership conversation when we actually have a piece of legislation that is in front of us. But I can tell you, uh, there is strong opposition right now to the notion that this war of choice — that is reckless, that’s costing the American people now more than $30 billion — should continue. We need to move, which we plan on doing in short order, a War Powers Resolution so we can bring this situation to a close.
I would take that as a “no.”
Imagine how different the world might look today if three weeks after President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared war on Japan, Congress had rushed to pass a War Powers Resolution aimed at “bringing the situation to a close.”
The Democratic Party has become anti-American. Governed by their hatred for Trump, they would rather accept the persistent threat to global stability that Iran has posed for 47 years than risk handing him a political victory.
Democrats and their communications team, the legacy media, have so grossly misrepresented the progress made by the U.S. and Israel over the past few weeks that many Americans believe we are losing the war.
That couldn’t be further from the truth. Even the far-left believes we are winning. Last week, the left-wing, anti-American, and anti-Israeli media outlet Al Jazeera published an article arguing that the U.S.-Israeli strategy against Iran is working and that Trump must stay the course. The author, Muhanad Seloom, an assistant professor of international politics and security at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, noted that “every aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded.”
He argued:
When you look at what has actually happened to Iran’s principal instruments of power — its ballistic missile arsenal, its nuclear infrastructure, its air defences, its navy and its proxy command architecture — the picture is not one of US failure. It is one of systematic, phased degradation of a threat that previous administrations allowed to grow for four decades.
In a weekend op-ed published by American Greatness, Roger Kimball cited the Monty Python skit about the Black Knight to describe the Left’s refusal to acknowledge the realities on the ground. He wrote, first “King Arthur slices off both [of] the knight’s arms. Then he slices off both his legs. The knight continues to insist that he is winning the fight. ‘Tis but a flesh wound,’ he cries.”
During a speech last week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth put it another way: “And to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King in World War II, we’ve decided to share the ocean with Iran. We’ve given them the bottom half.”
Secretary Hegseth says Iran's navy is no longer a factor.
“And to borrow a page from Admiral Ernest King in World War II, we’ve decided to share the ocean with Iran,” Hegseth said. “We’ve given them the bottom half.” pic.twitter.com/K7QW9W8aI7
— Kassy Akiva (@KassyAkiva) March 19, 2026
Perhaps it is Jeffries himself who should keep his own reckless mouth shut.
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Why is there someone named HAKEEM in the US government?????
Because his clueless, foolish constituents and the voting fakers put him there.
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IMO The SAVE act represents the extinction of the lying, satanic Democrat crime cabal
Yeah but his stupid constituents didn’t make him minority (there are a lot of jokes in that) leader. His stupid traitorous (democrat) peers did and he’ll be speaker if republicans lose the house in 2026.
Reading the comments, you obviously dislike Hakim Jeffries. You don’t like what he says and assume others feel the same. Don’t sell him short. He is a powerful speaker that can attract and influence a mob. He doesnt have to be honest or accurate. His speech will attract voters and thats what you need to be concerned with. I dont think there is a Republican member of congress that can compete or if there is, he isn’t getting any air time.. we need some Republicans in addition to DJT who will stand up and stimulate the voters.
Jeffries and Schumer have been able to stimulate a masdive anti ICE mob. Who on the Right has been able to stimulate a vocal pro ICE mob? I haven’t heard anyone. There is a Civil War going on right now, Left vs Right, but the Right is still asleep at the wheel!
Because his parents gave him a name that indicates he beez dowwnn wid da struggle!
Hawkeem ben hawkin’ dem Dems!
“SAVE yourself some trouble. Help destroy America now!”
And to possibly get him a dance spot of Soul Train.
Hos brother is named Hasan. He is a baptist though, Go figure,
Why should a baptist not be called Hakeem, or Hasan? Neither of those are inherently Moslem names, they’re just Arabic, and there are plenty of Christians who speak Arabic. Not the Jeffries family, but plenty of others. But for some illogical reason Arabic names became popular among black Americans around the time these two were born, so it makes sense that they were given such names. (The fashion makes no sense, but given that it did take off, following it does make sense, because you want your kids to have names that are popular with their peers.)
Why on earth shouldn’t there be? Why is there someone named Kashyap in the US government, or people named Marco, Markwayne, Tulsi, or Jamieson?
Still can’t get that stick out, eh?
I’ll beat you with it.
As long as you can manage to remove it everyone will benefit.
Hussein Jeffries just doesn’t have the slightest idea he is a lightweight.
“It sounds as if Trump hit a nerve, doesn’t it? But he was right. No enemy could have inflicted more damage on the country than the enemy within.”
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for s/he is known and carries his/her banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his/her sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; s/he speaks in accents familiar to his/her victims, and s/he wears their face and their arguments, s/he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men (and women). S/He rots the soul of a nation, s/he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, s/he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero
America’s real enemies have always been in DC and NYC, lead principally by the Council on Foreign Relations, a collection of the wealthiest and most influential who prefer world government which THEY would control.
There is truth in Cicero’s quotation, but I prefer this one. It identifies the source behind Cicero’s.
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
I doubt Cicero used “s/he”.
Probably not. But my source did, so you’re stuck with it,
https://jerrykieschnick.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/the-enemy-from-within/
There is a town in Illinois named for Cicero. I don’t believe there will ever be a town in this country named Hakeem.
At the rate that Islamofascists/Muslim supremacists are Islamizing parts of Michigan and Minnesota, I wouldn’t be so certain of that.
Well, there’s God’s Armpit, Arkansas, maybe they can pull double duty.
Or what, Hakeem?
[Hollywood stereotype southern accent here] “He’s bein’ uppity!”
{…same accent} “Bless his heart”
“Donald Trump should keep his reckless mouth shut before he gets somebody killed.”
Pot. Kettle. etc.
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.”
Ok, to be frank, I thought Jefferies was a fool before he spoke.
Ever look at a person and you told them to shut up, but they weren’t even talking?
That’s what I feel when I look at Jefferies.
He looks like a cro-magnon’s idea of a dunce.
He kind of looks like Mr Potato Head without the mustache after losing 30 pounds, He also had less smarts than a potato.
His lisp drives me crazy
Hakeem has people getting killed on his mind these days: ICE is going to kill people at airports, Trump is going to kill someone, but nothing about Iran killing people.
More to the point, nothing about DEMOCRATS killing people. Which is the only one the average American (and the average American politician) REALLY has to worry about.
Imagine. The “Trump is literally Hitler” crowd telling OTHER people to keep their mouth shut or risk causing murders.
It seems like he’s afraid.
Good. All government officials should be afraid of the people. That’s why we have guns. If they don’t respect us, they should fear us.
Also, maybe Trump did anticipate the closing of the strait, and intended to use its closing as a lever to get more support from so-called “allies” who would suddenly understand they have skin in the game.
And yet Jeffries and the democrat party didn’t seem to have a problem when they handing over billions (188 billions as of Dec. 2025) of U.S. taxpayer dollars to that fraud by the name of Zelenskyy in support of the Ukraine and the Ukrainian war. Where’s the outrage at that. $188 billions wasted on the Ukraine and the Ukrainian war that could have been better spent right here in the United States.
Here’s How Much Aid the United States Has Sent Ukraine
Well the part about ‘radical left, highly incompetent, democrat party’ is certainly accurate. I don’t know that I’d put them at the top of the list of enemies of ‘America’ but they certainly belong in the top five of the list.
Hakeem should take his sombrero and go home.
Now THIS is some presidential talking I can get behind! Right on the money, over the target and long over due. For the Democrats to survive as a co majority party they have to have: open borders, illegals voting by mail in ballots and a repair of their money laundering operations.
It would be interesting to see a breakdown by Congressional District of how much government spending goes to them. Of course, no one in our Jaba the Hut Federal Bureaucracy can really give us those numbers.
Jeffries is a facking idiot.
Hey, Jeffries: Keep your feckless mouth shut.
If substandard talking comes from having a substandard brain Hawkeem Jeffries would win a prize.
Hakeem shows us how successful Trump has been re:Iran. His bitchy rhetoric tellth the thtory.
Temu Obama talking tough. What is he going to do, cry on Trump? If this clown can’t even control his own caucus how does he think Trump is going to take him seriously? Temu is just another DEI person who got where he is by ticking boxes and now takes himself seriously because others on the left told him he was serious not recognizing his incompetence.
Clearly, hakeem does not know his place. fjb, falldims
I was going to ask if there was a black democrat with sufficient gravitas and common sense to be in congress. Then it occurred to me that the black wasn’t needed. All democrat congressman that I come across appear to be pretty unhinged. It’s just the black ones seem more so, The only one I can recall that seems to have some stability is Fetterman and he’s the crazy one.
Jeffries is a silly, un-serious man. He is a shining example of the Peter Principle if ever there was one!
Sounds like TEMU Obama just doesn’t like the truth. Communists never do
the low IQ dems continue to rule us
but getting in awar of wits with them is at least one place we can dominate them
I’ve never seen the Dime Store Obama even try to smile. He always looks sinister.
He TRIES to look sinister. Instead he just looks like a low-IQ fool. It’s gotta be stressful trying to act like somebody important when you know, deep down inside, that you’re a moron.
Roosevelt didn’t declare war on Japan. Congress did. And it took a day to get the Congress together to do so, by which time the UK and its dominions had already declared war.
But declaration or not, from the moment of the attack a state of war existed, for all legal purposes.
So saying the Democrat Party is America’s greatest remaining enemy is reckless and might get someone killed, but saying that every Republican president or candidate in turn is Literally Hitler™, that Republicans are fascists who are out to destroy our democracy and put black people back in chains, that police are gunning black people down in the street because they think their lives don’t matter, that’s not reckless and won’t get anyone killed.
How many Republicans, in the last 25 years, have tried to kill Democrats? How many Democrats, in the last 25 years, have tried to kill (or succeeded in killing) Republicans? Do the arithmetic (it’s not even math).
That sour face on Hakeem Jeffries and his words are the face of the Democrat Party.
Jeffries wouldn’t know the difference between leadership and (his) inaction if it bit him in the ass.