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The White House is ratcheting up its battle against top congressional Democrats by employing the latest Halloween social media trends. Trump’s team has been trolling top Democratic leaders, Representative Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Chuck Schumer, with Halloween-themed barbs for Friday's holiday. A post on the official White House X account poked fun at the liberals with Spirit Halloween costume packs featuring the two New York lawmakers. Jeffries’s costume includes a sombrero and a ‘filibuster speech no one remembers.’ However, the joke costume does not include ‘common sense.’ Schumer was similarly delivered a backhanded attack with his Spirit ‘costume,’ which includes ‘your money given to illegals’ and a ‘lifetime subscription to performative outrage.’ The senator’s pack does not include a ‘sombrero’ or ‘spine,’ according to the White House’s post. Neither Schumer nor Jeffries responded to the Daily Mail’s request for comment. The post also included costumes for President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, both of which were flattering and mentioned their alleged popularity. Not included in Trump’s ‘costume’: a crown. Not included in Vance’s: ‘Fat JD curly hair,’ a direct reference to a viral meme made of the 40-year-old VP. Meme culture has blossomed under the Republican administration, ranging from posts about what it sounds like to deport someone to deepfake AI hype videos of Trump's budget chief Russ Vought, posing as a grim reaper ready to cut federal costs and jobs. A more recent post from the Republican administration shows a jack-o-lantern with '30 days of Democratic shutdown' carved into it. When the White House first trolled Jeffries by putting a sombrero on him in a video where he was talking about the government shutdown, the New York Democrat, who is black and not Mexican, called it racist. 'I don’t even know what that means,' Vance later said when asked about the claim that the sombrero video was racist, likening it to a joke. The White House has since revived the sombrero attacks. This week, the administration posted an altered video showing Trump during his first term handing out Halloween candy at the executive's mansion, with a catch. Midway through the video, Trump's team edited a sombrero-wearing Jeffries and hatless Schumer into the clip, as though they were trick-or-treating with the president. Schumer and Jeffries have, so far, not responded in kind with memes aimed at ridiculing Trump and Republicans. But not all Democrats have followed their stoic lead. California Governor Gavin Newsom has charged head-on into the meme war by repeatedly targeting Trump administration officials with memes. Jokes about Vance's debunked infatuation with couches and Trump tearing down the White House have been recent themes of the governor's social media account. When Representative Anna Paulina Luna teed up the infamous sobrero as a possible costume for Vance, he responded on social media with the laughing-in-tears emoji. 'I've already got a costume,' Vance quipped.
