John Fetterman Slams Kamala Harris For Trump Remark

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman is once again taking aim at his own party.

Appearing on Fox News’ “Hannity” on Wednesday, the Pennsylvania senator claimed former Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s nominee for president against Donald Trump in 2024, “lost the plot” when she called Trump a “fascist.”

“When Vice President Harris referred to President Trump as a ‘fascist’… I knew absolutely we lost the plot at that point,” Fetterman told host Sean Hannity.

Fetterman argued that labeling the president a fascist is “effectively calling the people that are going to vote for him” the same thing and suggests they “support fascism and those things.”

“And that’s just not true,” he said.

Fetterman added that “extreme kinds of rhetoric” can lead to an outcome like last month’s fatal shooting of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

“I refuse to do those kinds of things,” Fetterman continued, “because that kind of extreme … rhetoric makes it easier for those kinds of extreme kinds of actions — even like what happened to poor Charlie Kirk.”

Despite telling Hannity that he has “always refused” to call Trump and his supporters fascist, Fetterman actually made a fascism joke at Trump’s expense in 2017.

“Also, @realDonaldTrump saw his shadow- 4 more years of fascism,” Fetterman wrote in a February 2017 X post alongside a GIF of Bill Murray in the 1993 film “Groundhog Day.”

Telling Hannity that he “happen[s] to know and love a lot of people who voted for the president, and they are not fascist,” Fetterman added, “They are not Nazis, they’re not trying to destroy the Constitution and all those things. They just happen to have different priorities, and they love our country in the same ways that Democrats do as well.”

In late October 2024, Harris was asked at a CNN town hall whether she thought Trump was a fascist, to which she replied, “Yes, I do.” She also argued that voters should listen when people who worked in the White House and know Trump best have called him “unfit and dangerous.”

Harris’ comments came the same week that John Kelly, White House chief of staff during the first Trump administration, warned in an interview with The New York Times that his former boss meets “the general definition of a fascist.”

Kelly also confirmed previous reporting about alleged private conversations with Trump in which Trump expressed admiration for Adolf Hitler “more than once” and claimed that the Nazi leader “did some good things, too.”

Fetterman’s comments on “Hannity” were criticized on social media.

“Donald Trump called Kamala Harris a fascist and called the Biden administration the Gestapo,” former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan wrote in an X post Tuesday.

Hasan added, “But Fetterman will never criticize Trump. Nope, his job as a Democratic senator is to go on Fox with Hannity and attack the Democratic presidential candidate.”