Gingrich Warns Of ‘Very Dangerous’ Consequences as Dems Attack Trump
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is sounding the alarm over what he calls the “very dangerous” escalation in Democrat rhetoric — a climate he fears could inspire something “serious” against President Donald Trump, especially after two failed assassination attempts that the Left still refuses to acknowledge with any seriousness.
Appearing on Fox News, Gingrich pushed back on House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries’ boast that Republicans are “on the run,” arguing instead that Democrats are operating from a place of rage, emptiness, and desperation.
Gingrich warned that the modern Left, cornered by the success of President Trump’s second-term reforms and Elon Musk’s cost-cutting initiatives inside government, is drifting toward extremism.
“Well, I think that everything you showed earlier reflects what Lincoln said at Gettysburg when he said, this is a test of whether this system or any system so conceived in liberty can survive. You have a hard-line group who believe that they have the right to be violent, that they have the right to deny the American people the choice of their leadership, that they have the right to break the law. The answer to all of that is, frankly, you have to lock them up. You have to enforce the law,” Gingrich began.
He added that the Left’s hostility even toward public servants reveals a deeper moral sickness inside the Democratic Party:
“Period. And at some point, people begin to realize that you can’t wage war against the entire American people. And in that sense, I would argue that Elon Musk is simply one of the people serving the American people. He’s a senior advisor to the president of the United States. And I think that, in that sense, all of this is totally unacceptable, as is harassing a Supreme Court justice or harassing the vice president and his three-year-old,” Gingrich added.
Gingrich then blasted House Democrats for their robotic performance at a recent joint session, where they refused to applaud even basic displays of humanity.
“What I saw the other night … the House Democrats were sort of zombie Democrats. They couldn’t applaud anything. They couldn’t applaud the president. They couldn’t applaud a 13-year-old cancer survivor. They couldn’t applaud a young man who wanted to go to West Point. They couldn’t applaud people who were there who had lost loved ones. It was pretty bizarre. And I think that, you know, Hakeem Jeffries may think he has to say these things. He’s their leader,” he said.
The former speaker argued that Democrats are empty of ideas and consumed by fury toward President Trump’s efforts to dismantle an entrenched bureaucracy that Americans overwhelmingly believe is corrupt.
“What’s he going to say? But the fact is, the Democrats currently have no solutions. They are so enraged that Trump is actually changing what, overwhelmingly, Americans believe is a corrupt system. I’ll just give you one piece of data,” he said.
“Our America’s New Majority project just had a poll come out yesterday. 82% of the American people believe the system is corrupt. Now that’s dangerous. Both for the survival of freedom. But also it tells you the fact that the Democrats, who want to defend the bureaucracy and the corruption and the waste, they’re going to have a big mountain to climb come 2026,” Gingrich continued.
He contrasted President Trump’s focus on peace with what he described as the reckless destructiveness of Democratic leadership — a contrast he believes will dominate the 2026 midterm cycle.
“Here at home is totally different and here at home you’ve got two pygmies who live literally within 1.1 miles of each other, both in New York City,” Gingrich said.
“About to elect a big government socialist with radical values. They are totally out of touch with the country. Think about Schumer’s comment. Every day gets better. It sure does not get better for the workers who are laid off, for the people who cannot get there government services, it does not get better for normal Americans. Maybe that tells you how out of touch and house there the Democratic Party has become. But the contrast between the destructiveness of the democratic leadership and to the remarkable focus on peace by Donald Trump is truly astonishing,” Gingrich added.