Chuck Schumer Tries to Follow in Bernie Sanders' and AOC's Footsteps with Embarrassing F-Bomb Video

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and his fellow Democrats are having an authenticity crisis — and their latest social media stunt proves it.

In a video posted Tuesday on X, Schumer attempted to defend Democrats’ handling of the ongoing government shutdown. Instead, he delivered a performance that came off as contrived, desperate, and eerily similar to a scripted YouTube video released days earlier by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).

Schumer opened with a familiar fearmongering line: “Donald Trump and the Republican Party are hell-bent on taking health care away from 16 million people, closing community clinics, rural hospitals, nursing homes — all so they can keep giving tax breaks to their billionaire friends.”

WARNING: The following video contains vulgar language that some may find offensive.

It’s the same tired talking point Democrats have been repeating for decades — and it’s no more believable in 2025 than it was in 2010. As Americans know, Democrats have long since become the party of coastal elites and corporate interests, lecturing working families while living off the wealth of the very billionaires they pretend to despise.

Then came the embarrassing attempt at “tough talk.”

“So Democrats have three words for this: No f**ing way,”* Schumer declared, apparently trying to channel the vulgar faux-populism that has become AOC’s brand.

At 74 years old and facing re-election in 2028, Schumer’s profanity-laced performance fell flat. What was meant to project strength instead exposed a party scrambling to imitate authenticity — and failing miserably.

Throughout the rest of the clip, Schumer repeated his claim that the shutdown was a “literally life or death” matter for Americans, echoing Bernie Sanders’ earlier statement that the shutdown could somehow cause “50,000 working people to die.”

In the AOC-Sanders video that inspired Schumer’s mimicry, the two self-styled socialists awkwardly pretended to “bump into” each other on the streets of Washington, D.C., chatting about the shutdown as though they were just two ordinary citizens caught up in the struggle.

Schumer’s imitation only reinforced the problem: Democrats today sound like actors reciting bad lines from a political sketch.

The reaction online was swift and brutal. X users mocked the Senate minority leader for his lack of originality and authenticity.

“They don’t wanna take healthcare away from me,” one user wrote. “You want to give healthcare to illegal immigrants. Also, this video is terrible — who convinced you to do this?”

Another posted bluntly: “No more jabbering, Chuck. You lost the optics.”

Others speculated that Schumer’s sudden pivot toward AOC-style messaging stemmed from fear of a 2028 primary challenge from the far-left congresswoman. After Schumer refused to push for an earlier government shutdown back in March, progressive activists turned on him — and AOC herself has openly criticized his leadership.

Meanwhile, President Donald J. Trump and his allies have been having a field day online. Trump supporters flooded X with memes of Schumer and other Democrats wearing sombreros — a jab at the party’s obsession with providing taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal immigrants.

For all their posturing about “compassion,” Democrats like Schumer have become caricatures of political insincerity. When even your own base mocks your messaging, it’s clear the act has worn thin.

If this video is the best Schumer can muster, he might want to consider retirement — long before 2028.