Like other Democratic leaders, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is trying to sound an alarm that Donald Trump is trying to turn America into an autocracy.
But his latest attempt fell flat on social media for its inherent lameness.
During an interview on Tuesday, Jeffries attempted to point out that Trump and “extreme MAGA Republicans spent last year promising to lower the high cost of living and running away from Project 2025 as if it didn’t exist.”
But Jeffries didn’t refer to Trump by name, opting to mock the president by calling him “Captain Chaos.”
Meh, right?
Although Jeffries seemed momentarily pleased with the wordplay in the clip above, most folks on social media thought it was pretty lame as insults go.
Even worse, many people felt that, like Hillary Clinton’s attempt to tag Trump as “Dangerous Donald” during the 2016 election, calling Trump “Captain Chaos” was just going to make the president look even cooler to his supporters.
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HuffPost reached out to Jeffries for comment on the reaction to his “Captain Chaos” nickname, but no one immediately responded.