A Trump administration official who posted to X that Republicans are “better than” Donald Trump’s latest racist AI-generated videos got shouted down… by both sides.

Former Sen. and current U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Jeff Flake (R-AZ) posted a plea with Republicans to X following a couple of videos Trump posted of a Black Democrat with crudely-drawn mustaches and a sombrero. “C’mon, fellow Republicans, we’re better than this,” he said.

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He posted a still from a video Trump shared on social media of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) with the sombrero while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that “Nobody liked Democrats” because they support “woke trans bulls**t.” The video is fake, and the demands presented in the video have nothing to do with the current shutdown, where Democrats are demanding an extension to health care subsidies for their help in passing a budget.

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After Jeffries called Trump out for the racist video, Trump posted another one to his personal social media network, Truth Social. This video took a clip of Jeffries calling out Trump’s racism on MSNBC and put Jeffries in a sombrero and a mustache and showed several Trumps behind him playing mariachi music.

Republicans have generally supported Trump in his antics, despite the fact that they aren’t doing anything to achieve a budget measure to end the shutdown.

“Who knew that you could get this kind of content, get this kind of vibe going about it?” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said, while laughing on Fox News, about the first Jeffries video. Meanwhile, conservatives on social media justified the racist video by saying that they thought it was funny.

Flake’s plea to Republicans that they are “better” than Trump’s antics faced pushback from both the right and the left. Liberals argued that Republicans are not better than this.