In an absurd rant, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) railed against President Trump during what was previously advertised as an all-nighter on the Senate floor, with Democrats protesting the president’s actions during his first 100 days in office.
For context, during a proposed takeover of the Senate floor on April 29, 2025, Sen. Schumer spoke for over ten minutes about what he perceived as the evils of the Trump Administration, criticizing the president for everything from his economic policies to his issuing presidential pardons. During his rant, Sen. Schumer described President Trump as “the worst president of our lifetimes” and accused him of being a “mob boss.”
In his remarks on the House floor, Sen. Chuck Schumer began by saying, “Donald Trump’s first 100 days have been a 100 days from hell.” The senator added, “I couldn’t think of another way to describe the sentiment I felt back home: these 100 days have been 100 days from hell.”
Continuing, Schumer spiraled into a major rant, saying, “Donald Trump is not governing like a president of a democratic republic. He is acting like a king, a despot, a wannabe-dictator.” He went on, “But everything we’ve seen so far shows he wants to be dictator for much, much longer. And it’s eating away at America’s rule of law, America’s norms, America’s fundamental values. And people are scared and people are angry.”
Moving on, Sen. Schumer described President Trump as bringing “incompetence and indecision and chaos” into the White House, saying that these attributes were “eating away at much of the country, emanating from the man who occupies the Oval Office.” He added, “Donald Trump promised a ‘Golden Age’ on the first day he became president. What Americans got instead was fool’s gold.”
In addition, Sen. Schumer fiercely criticized President Trump for issuing presidential pardons, saying, “He pardoned lawbreakers who had an intent on disrupting the Congress as we counted electoral votes. “He added, “What a disgrace,” and continued, “What kind of morals is he setting for this country? This will go down in history as one of the ways America has declined under Donald Trump.”
Later in his tirade, Sen. Schumer tore into President Trump’s economic policies, saying that the president “has singlehandedly pushed us to the brink of a recession” and adding, “This president, who governs chaotically and reverses himself like a weather vane in a windstorm, is driving the robust American economy into a ditch.”
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Closing his rant, Sen. Schumer described President Trump as “the worst president of our lifetimes” and asked Americans to view the Trump Administration as “a full frontal attack on the core elements of what America truly great.” He added, “Let us commit ourselves to continue to struggle against this administration and to uphold the core values and principles of this great nation.”
Watch coverage of Sen. Schumer ranting about the Trump Administration the day before:
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