THEY WANT WAR – WE WILL GIVE THEM WAR

Hakeem Jeffries’ call to fight Trump agenda ‘in the streets’ sparks backlash as a ‘Maxine Waters moment’

Waters famously came under fire in 2018 when she encouraged her supporters to ‘create a crowd ‘ if they see a Trump official

 By Brian Flood Fox News

Published January 31, 2025 9:00pm EST

HAKEEM JEFFRIES PLEDGES DEMOCRATS WILL ‘FIGHT’ TRUMP AGENDA ‘IN THE STREETS’

Many took to social media to declare that Jeffries had a “Maxine Waters moment.”

Waters famously came under fire in 2018 when she encouraged her supporters to fight back against the Trump administration amid backlash over the White House’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy.

“Let’s make sure we show up whenever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them and you tell them they’re not welcomed anymore, anywhere,” Waters told supporters at a Los Angeles protest. 

Many saw similarities with the rhetoric from Jeffries: