Dems Still in Disarray: Fetterman Tells His Fellow Democrats to Calm Down

Last week, in an interview with POLITICO, Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) spoke out against Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) blaming President Joe Biden for Democrats’ election losses earlier this month. He’s also weighed in on President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, referring to the selection of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) as “God-tiered kind of trolling,” though he does support Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) for Secretary of State and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) as ambassador to the United Nations.

On Sunday, Fetterman also spoke about his party’s reaction to Trump’s win–something he had been warning about for weeks–during his appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

In response to host Jake Tapper reminding Fetterman that he’s said Democrats “shouldn’t be ‘freaking out’ over every single thing that Trump does,” the senator doubled down on how he is “absolutely excited” about Rubio and Stefanik, though he considers picks like Gaetz to be “just absolute trolls.”

“And that’s why Democrats–like, Trump gets the kind of thing–mean, he gets the kind of thing that he wanted, like the freak-out and all of those things. And he hasn’t even been–it’s still not even not even Thanksgiving yet,” Fetterman reminded. “And if we’re having meltdowns every tweet or every appointment or all those things, I mean, it’s going to be four years,” he continued, about four years that hasn’t even begun yet.

Fetterman himself also pointed out that he had been warning not just about a Trump win, but that he had been “warning about the jackpot,” with Republicans also gaining control of the Senate, keeping control of the House, and conservative judges being a majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, something Fetterman called “the real jackpot.”

FETTERMAN: Dems can’t “freak out” over "every tweet or every appointment" after Trump's victory. "It's still not even Thanksgiving yet… it's going to be four years. pic.twitter.com/IYlMakNOhq

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