Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a vocal critic of President Trump, shot back with sarcasm after the president called him ugly in a post online.
“I suppose I don’t like being called ugly by Donald Trump, but not everybody can live up to his exquisite levels of handsomeness and personal physical grace,” Raskin told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on “The Last Word.”
“And so that — I would consider myself probably in the large majority of American men who simply can’t live up to the exquisite standards that he’s set, and his extraordinary popularity with American women,” he quipped.
His remarks came after Trump, in a post on Truth Social, called the Maryland lawmaker a “third rate Democrat politician” and said Raskin “has no idea what is in our fantastic Tax Cut Bill, nor would he understand it if he did.”
“This DOPE has been consistently losing to me for YEARS, and I love watching his ugly face as he is forced to consistently concede DEFEAT TO TRUMP — And tonight should be another of those nights,” the president added. “Raskin is a bad politician, and a TOTAL LOSER!”
The lawmaker is no stranger to attacks after serving as impeachment manager during Trump’s second impeachment trial following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. He also sat on the select committee investigating the riots.
The back-and-forth came as the House GOP was considering the Senate-passed version of the “big, beautiful bill.” The lower chamber advanced the spending package early Thursday after overcoming a dramatic procedural vote overnight.
Democrats have been vehemently opposed to the reconciliation package, with Raskin posting Wednesday on the social platform X that “House Democrats have been 100% united in standing up for all Americans and saying no to the GOP’s job-killing, health care-destroying, debt-exploding tax bill.”
On Thursday, he went a step further, calling the bill a “tax scheme.”
“The GOP’s tax scheme strips health care coverage from millions of Americans, including at least 245,000 Marylanders,” he wrote on X. “I’m voting ‘hell no.’”
The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.
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