Jen Psaki mocks Chuck Schumer’s letter to Trump on Harvard funding freeze: ‘Shake in your boots’
Jen Psaki mocked Sen. Chuck Schumer’s “very strongly worded” letter that he sent to President Trump demanding answers on Harvard’s federal funding freeze – taking a sarcastic jab at the supposedly tough, “shake in your boots” missive.
During an appearance Wednesday on “The Late Show,” the former White House press secretary warned that if Democrats keep using washed-up strategies instead of fighting back, they’ll lose another election.
“But Chuck Schumer, he wrote a very strongly worded letter,” host Stephen Colbert joked.
“With eight strongly worded questions,” Psaki chimed in.
Colbert added, “What more could you ask of a leader?”
“If that’s not going to make you shake in your boots, I don’t know what is,” Psaki continued.
She’s just the latest to ridicule Schumer’s tactic, , along with four other Jewish senators, demanding Trump immediately reverse course on his attacks against Harvard.
The federal government has frozen more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to the university over pro-Palestinian campus protests.
Psaki argued that Democratic lawmakers need to take a more aggressive approach to their GOP counterparts.
“Go lead a protest. Go to a red state. Go hold a town hall. Go to El Salvador, whatever it may be,” Psaki said on the late-night show.
“People want to know you’re fighting and doing things. If Democrats are going to rely on the tactics of old, they will lose, and so hopefully more people come onto the fighting side,” she continued.
She nodded to Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois, who over the weekend called for “mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption.”
“It was incredibly powerful, incredibly strong,” Psaki said. “The message he was sending was, ‘I’m a fighter. I’m going to say the things. I’m going to call out do nothing Democrats.’”
