Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Madeleine Dean took Speaker Mike Johnson to task Tuesday over the AI-generated deepfake video shared by President Donald Trump that portrayed House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a Sombrero.

“It’s bigoted. It’s racist. You should call it out,” Dean told Johnson, in a confrontation in a Capitol hallway as reporters looked on.

The exchange, which occurred hours after Trump’s highly criticized speech to top U.S. military leaders and shortly before the government shutdown was to take effect, was recorded in several clips CNN reporter Manu Raju posted on X.

Raju posted in an interview later, Dean elaborated on her remarks:

He asked me, like, rhetorically, ‘is that really racist?’ It’s really racist, it’s despicable, and he should have called it out. And I s

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