House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) responded after White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said members of his party taking part in the No Kings protests were "Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

"You've got swastikas apparently appearing in the offices of Republican members of Congress," Jeffries explained on Friday. "You've got Young Republicans engaging in the most anti-Semitic and racist speech possible. Like this is apparently who many of these people are. They are ripping the sheets off."

"And then you've got Karoline Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control, and I'm not sure whether she's just demented, ignorant, right, a stone cold liar or all of the above, but the notion that an official White House spokesperson would say that the Democratic Party consists of terrorists, violent criminals and undocumented immigrant, this makes no sense," he continued. "That this is what the American people are getting from the Trump administration in the middle of a shutdown."

Jeffries said he supported the right of Americans to protest.

"That's as American as motherhood, baseball, and apple pie," he remarked. "And the notion that this unhinged White House spokesperson would suggest that that's hateful, that's not hateful. What's hateful is what happened on January 6th."

"What you'll see this weekend is what patriotism looks like," he added. "People showing up to express opposition to the extremism that Donald Trump has been unleashing on the American people, and Donald Trump's failures, the Republican failure to keep their core promise."