For some, a brand new moniker for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) could really feel like poetic justice — particularly if it catches on.
Well-liked radio host Charlamagne tha God revealed on the “Breakfast Club” Tuesday that he has a brutal nickname he likes to make use of for the Home minority chief.
“I call him ‘AIPAC Shakur,’” Charlamagne stated.
The nickname is a intelligent play on the title of late rapper Tupac Shakur and Jeffries’ longstanding help for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Washington’s strongest pro-Israel group.
Charlamagne busted out his epithet when his visitor, TV and radio character Claudia Jordan, proclaimed herself to be a “politics nerd” on his present and stated that she actually loved interviewing Jeffries on her personal podcast, “Accidentally Informed.”
On the mere point out of the New York democrat’s title, Charlamagne made it clear that he doesn’t discover the politician notably inspiring.
“I don’t hate him,” Charlamagne stated. “I just don’t think he stands for anything.”
“Well, definitely — we did talk about messaging, and I actually went to the Capitol and had a meeting with him,” Jordan advised Charlamagne. “And we talked about messaging and how I was like, ’The frustration with the party is y’all have to get more gangster. Like, stop going by the politics of the late 2000s, in 2010, and you have to … rise to the occasion in the messaging. And he did. I saw him do more afterwards.”
“Hakeem is a puppet,” Charlamagne shot again. “Hakeem is not doing anything if Chuck Schumer don’t tell him to do it. And it’s as simple as that.”
Charlamagne’s opinion echoes quite a lot of liberals’ mounting frustrations with the present state of the Democratic Celebration. So when a clip of his remarks made its approach on to X, many left-leaning customers felt the nickname was hilarious and applicable.
Many on the left aren’t thrilled that the U.S. bankrolls Israel’s ongoing assaults in Gaza, contemplating the reported demise toll of Palestinian civilians. However Jordan’s sentiment that Democratic leaders aren’t being “gangster” sufficient of their responses to President Donald Trump’s extremism appears to faucet into the crux of the difficulty a bit extra.
Simply months earlier than President Donald Trump was elected the primary time, former first girl Michelle Obama famously suggested Democrats to rise above MAGA by saying: “When they go low, we go high.”
Nonetheless, contemplating that Trump was re-elected in 2024, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) has determined to undertake a very completely different strategy, which may very well be summed up as “when they go low, we go low.”
Not solely is the California Democrat actively attempting to squash Texas Republicans’ gerrymandering scheme to safe management of the Home, however his newest social media ways are actually beginning to annoy Republicans.
“I’ve changed,” Newsom advised Fox LA when requested about his new social media strategy in an interview. “The facts have changed; we [Democrats] need to change.”
