US EditionHispanic groups criticize Trump’s sombrero memes, videos
Most Mexican American Republican lawmakers have not publicly addressed Trump’s sombrero memes, while Latino groups condemn the use of stereotypes, according to multiple sources.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump shared an AI video on Truth Social showing House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in sombreros, and Republican allies amplified the clip with their own memes.
- Some Latino advocacy groups condemned the posts as stereotyping Mexicans, while most Mexican American Republican lawmakers have not publicly addressed the sombrero memes as of Thursday afternoon.
- Representative Anna Paulina Luna responded by posting photoshopped images of JD Vance and others, changing her X profile to a sombrero portrait, and dismissing `fake outrage` on Fox News.
- Democrats quickly criticized the posts and linked them to the ongoing government shutdown, with Senator Alex Padilla and Representative Teresa Leger Fernández blaming Republicans amid the H.R. 5371 impasse.
- Federal messaging and DHS social posts have recently drawn criticism for politicized communications, as the administration issued ideological emails to federal employees and DHS faced accusations over right-wing online conduct.
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What's the row over sombrero videos that Donald Trump keeps posting?
Trump has posted AI-generated videos of Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer wearing sombreros and moustaches, with altered audio falsely claiming Democrats wanted free health care for undocumented immigrants. Latino advocacy groups condemned the memes as 'dangerous' while Republicans like JD Vance and Ted Cruz defended them as humorous
Hispanic groups criticize Trump’s sombrero memes, videos
Several Latino advocacy groups called out President Trump over his use of artificial intelligence and memes to target Democratic congressional leaders, including depicting House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) wearing a Mexican-style sombrero.
Only One Mexican American GOP Rep Has Commented on Trump’s Racist Meme
Mexican American GOP lawmakers have been largely silent on MAGA’s sombrero memes this week.President Donald Trump on Monday shared a video featuring House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Truth Social, using AI to depict Jeffries wearing a mustache and sombrero while mariachi music plays and Schumer trashes Democrats.The president’s allies (including the official Republican Party) have gleefully seized …
Hopeless Hypocrites: Same Dems Calling Jeffries Sombrero Meme Racist Fought to Put Blackface Kimmel Back on TV - Conservative Angle
Democrats once again outed themselves as humorless, race-baiting scolds with their manufactured outrage over satirical videos mocking their slavish devotion to illegal immigration. The left has been in a tizzy […] The post Hopeless Hypocrites: Same Dems Calling Jeffries Sombrero Meme Racist Fought to Put Blackface Kimmel Back on TV appeared first on The Western Journal. The post Hopeless Hypocrites: Same Dems Calling Jeffries Sombrero Meme Racis…
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