President Trump and the White House are ratcheting up the rhetoric in attacking Democrats, leaning into mockery and incendiary language to demean their political rivals.

The trend was particularly notable as President Trump, many of his aids and Republicans in Congress verbally attacked those marching in the weekend’s “No Kings” demonstrations against the administration.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday doubled down on her claim that Democrats' “main constituency” is made up of terrorists, criminals and those in the country illegally, comments that were reminiscent of Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee, saying at the time that many Trump supporters could be put in a "basket of deplorables."

Trump over the weekend posted an AI-generated video depicting him flying a plane that dropped excrement on demonstrators.

To further mock the No Kings rallies, Trump and his team posted various memes of the president as a king, while Trump late Sunday said the rallies are “not representative of this country” and dismissed those protesting as “whacked out.”

“By the way, I'm not a king,” Trump said. “I'm not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great. That's all it is. I'm not a king at all.”

The verbal broadsides were reflective of what could be a few second-term mottoes for Trump World: Always be on offense, and hit your opponent harder than they hit you.

Team Trump in his second term is constantly on the attack, never backing down at any hint of criticism. They appear to believe that any backlash they get for their own attacks on their opponents will simply drive more attention to Trump’s message, benefiting the White House.

“The president uses social media to make a point,” Speaker........

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