Democratic Senator Adam Schiff has a response to Donald Trump’s constant taunting of him as a “pencil neck,” or “watermelon head.”
Schiff said Friday that Trump could “go f--- himself,” as he discussed how the president “doesn’t like” him during a sit down on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Kimmel played him a montage of Trump’s insults. Trump has called Schiff a slew of nasty names, and at one point wondered aloud “how that neck can hold up that big, oversized, ugly head.”
Kimmel quipped, “Your neck, I’m looking at it, do people look at it now?”
“Let me tell you, a watermelon head on a pencil neck is a pretty tough balancing act,” Schiff said, joking after the montage, “I’m getting the impression he doesn’t like me very much...but you know, I’m a good Democrat, so my view, of course, is when they go low we go high. He can go f--- himself.”
As for his party, Schiff said “the path back to power for the Democratic Party is to show that we can get s--t done again,” as he admitted, “We’ve lost some of that.”
The party’s been torn about how to respond to Trump and his billionaire tether Elon Musk, but Schiff told Kimmel, “We cannot be divided in the minority,” he continued, and “the only way we’re going to stop bad stuff from happening in the Democratic Party is if we are absolutely united and speaking with one voice.”
That said, he was absolutely against Chuck Schumer’s decision to allow the Republicans to have their way to avoid a government shutdown last week, saying, “We are going to have to get it by fighting and we had an opportunity to fight last week and we should have taken it.”
Though he talked about what his own party could be doing differently, he still had a few insults for Musk, who he called an “erratic evil, not-so-genius.” Schiff said that two days ago, “I was in the loneliest place on earth… I was in Berkeley, California walking past a Tesla dealership. It was so empty in that store, it was like a vacuum in there.”
“I thought you meant Elon Musk’s heart,” Kimmel quipped in response.
