Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders had some choice words for President Trump after he posted an AI video of him wearing a crown and dumping sewage on “No Kings” protesters from a fighter jet. The senator appeared on ABC’s The View where he was asked by co-host Ana Navarro to respond to the video, which was posted on Truth Social, and to Republicans dismissing the “No Kings” rallies as being full of violent criminals, illegal aliens, and Hamas terrorists. Sanders shook his head in disgust and lambasted Trump’s response to the protest.
Sanders calls Trump a “megalomaniac” for his No Kings video
“I think they are fomenting hatred when you have the Speaker of the House say, ‘This is a hate America rally,'” Sanders said about Mike Johnson and Donald Trump. “Why did people come out? They came out to defend the Constitution of the United States.”
The “No Kings” protestors were defending “the basic freedoms to say to Donald Trump, ‘You know what? You cannot send the military into Portland, Oregon,” he continued. “You cannot take people off the street with masks and throw them and deport them to South Sudan.”
Sanders criticized Trump for his attacks on the media, law firms, and universities while calling him a “megalomaniac” as well as “a pathological liar.”
That said, he believes that the Democratic party has to make a “fundamental decision,” when pressed by co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin on how the energy from the protests will translate into outcomes given the party’s low approval rating and its lack of new voter registrations.
He replied that the working class voted for Trump “not because they wanted tax breaks for billionaires, not because they wanted to throw 15 million off the healthcare they have or double healthcare premiums,” but because they believe Democrats don’t stand for them.
Sanders went on to say he remembers a time when the Democratic party sided with the working class and believes it needs to step away from “corporate sponsors” and “billionaire friends” so that they can address voters who are struggling to pay for childcare, healthcare, housing, and groceries.
