A top-ranking Republican senator compared Donald Trump to a playful “little boy” as he tried to defend a crude AI video posted by the president in a shutdown standoff with Democrats.

“Couldn’t the president just say, ‘These demands are ridiculous,’ and not post a video with Hakeem Jeffries wearing a sombrero, and you know, putting that voice over Senator Schumer talking about people of color and immigrants?” CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins put it to Sen. Roger Marshall on Monday evening.

Trump had posted the clip to Truth Social following an unproductive White House sit-down with Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, who lead the Democratic minorities in the House and Senate. The clip featured Jeffries sporting a traditional Mexican hat and moustache as mariachi music plays in the background, while an

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