Fetterman Begs Democrats to Stop Calling Trump Names

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Sen. John Fetterman defended President Donald Trump in a new interview, blasting his fellow Democrats for constantly labeling the White House authoritarian.

“If you compare him to an actual autocrat, that… it’s just not that,” the Pennsylvania senator and Democratic black sheep told CNN’s Inside Politics Sunday of his fellow party members calling Trump a fascist. “This is not an autocrat, this is a product of a democratic election.”

Critics have increasingly directed these terms toward the MAGA White House amid Trump’s ongoing centralization of executive power, his immigration crackdown, his increasing use of ultra-nationalist rhetoric, his attacks on political opponents, his penchant for outlandish displays of military strength, and his longstanding cult-like appeal among members of his base.

Fetterman echoed calls for Democrats to tone down criticism of the second Trump administration. Many on the right have accused Democrats of contributing to the spread of political violence in the United States that claimed the life of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this week. Fetterman urged his party “to turn the temperature down.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fetterman-begs-democrats-stop-calling-153554197.html

He's the closest we've ever come to an autocrat John. Stop kissing his ass.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Wow.

[edhopper]

2. Fuck him

I expect him to jump Parties.

[yardwork]

4. It's looking that way.

[BonnieJW]

78. He won't be reelected

I know some people in PA, and the dems hate him. The right thinks he has mental problems and doesn't want anything to do with him

[Trueblue1968]

111. I think fetterman is horrible.

[berksdem]

125. I live in PA

And he is toast. Dems can’t stand him here… good riddance

[Irish_Dem]

19. What's the going rate to jump ship?

[usedtobedemgurl]

32. I am not sure it is about money.

I contend his stroke messed up his thinking.

[Irish_Dem]

40. Many people have brain damage and don't turn into evil traitors.

All roads lead back to cash in the GOP world.

[Traildogbob]

79. You hit the nail.

💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰Every thug is for sell in the GQP. Even little girls. Megan Trainer, “All about that cash, bout that cash”🎼🎼🎼

[LymphocyteLover]

98. He's always been a little iffy, if we're being honest. The charges of racism are legit.

[Irish_Dem]

103. Yes the edgy over the top persona was covering up something else it appears.

[Wiz Imp]

42. He will never switch parties.

[Katinfl]

73. Why do say that?

[Wiz Imp]

107. Look at his voting record.

His progressive voting score is 50% higher than the highest Republican and more than 80% higher than the average Republican. Progressive Punch give him a "B" rating which they define as someone "worthy of support".

https://progressivepunch.org/scores.htm?topic=&house=senate&sort=overall-lifetime&order=down&party

Just because he says some stupid things and goes way overboard in his support for Israel, people think he has been much further to the right than he really is. He has never been the deciding vote to Pass Republican legislation nor has he ever tried to block any Democratic legislation.

I wish he'd just keep his mouth shut rather than say stupid shit like this, but I can live with the stupid shit as long as he maintains his strong voting record.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

83. Then primary him and get him out that way.

[Wiz Imp]

109. see post #107

[edbermac]

3. Yeah, it's unfair to call him a felon and a rapist

Fetterman has got to go.

[Irish_Dem]

20. Yes so wrong to call Trump a traitor and spy.

Even though we saw these crimes played out on TV in front of our eyes.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

48. And a Russian asset.

[Irish_Dem]

50. Yep he works for Putin.

[Arazi]

5. lol, nope. Fuck that guy

[Silent Type]

6. We'll eat him and those like him until we are down to 30 seats in Senate.

[Irish_Dem]

21. We didn't plant double agents.

Someone else did.

Don't blame the victims.

[Silent Type]

34. Yeah, we are a lot better off with Jim Justice than Joe Manchin in the Senate.

[Irish_Dem]

38. We would be better off not letting double agents into congress.

[Brenda]

37. Maybe they should act and vote like Democrats

Instead of your spin that we're eating him and losing a seat.

Why did he fucking stop being the Democrat he was voted in as?

[Wiz Imp]

63. He has voted like a Democrat

AFL-CIO Legislative Scorecard - Lifetime rating 100%
https://aflcio.org/scorecard

League of Conservation Voter Environmental Scorecard - Lifetime rating 90%
https://www.lcv.org/congressional-scorecard/members-of-congress/

Planned Parenthood Congressional Scorecard - Lifetime Score 100%
https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/congressional-scorecard

Alliance for Retired Americans Congressional Voting Record - Lifetime Score 89%
https://retiredamericans.org/voting-record/

Human Rights Campaign Congressional Scorecard - Score 90%
https://hrc-prod-requests.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/files/documents/118th-Congressional-Scorecard-HRC-2024-Final.pdf

Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Scorecard - Score 100%
https://civilrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Voting-Record-118th-Congress.pdf

Progressive Punch Progressive Score - Lifetime Score 86.56% (50 points higher than the highest Republican)
https://progressivepunch.org/scores.htm?topic=&house=senate&sort=overall-lifetime&order=down&party

Heritage Action For America (From the Heritage Foundation) - Lifetime Score 7% (Average Democratic Score is 11% so Fetterman has voted against the Heritage Foundation more than the average Democrat)
https://heritageaction.com/scorecard/members/F000479/118

[Brenda]

65. John Fetterman Gets Good News From Republicans in His Home State

Democratic Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is more popular among Republicans than Democrats in his home state, according to a new poll.

https://www.newsweek.com/john-fetterman-approval-republicans-pennsylvania-poll-2090583
JUN 25, 2025 AT 11:01 AM EDT

[Wiz Imp]

93. What does that have to do with is voting record?

He's in positive territory with his approval rating among Democrats. The fact that he's even slightly better with Republicans implies that he should sail to reelection if he runs again in 2028. So he says some stupid things like this which I find easy to ignore. That doesn't change his voting record which is certifiably very progressive. Unlike Manchin and Sinema, he has never cast a deciding vote for a Republican bill or nominee and has never single handedly blocked progressive legislation from passing. Maybe you would rather have another Republican Senator from PA who votes with Democrats 5% of the time or less. Me, I'll take the guy who has a very strong voting record despite saying some frustrating and stupid things occasionally.

[angrychair]

86. He loves voting to help Mango Mussolini

He has voted for his cabinet members and the CR and military aid to Israel and anything else the tyrant wants.
As far as I can tell whenever Democrats vote with Republicans his name is always on the list.

[ImNotGod]

7. tRump's poodles are whining again. nt

[Groundhawg]

8. WOW

[Paladin]

9. Fetterman is an absolute disgrace.

"...not an autocrat...product of a democratic election," my ass.

[Codifer]

10. Hey fetterman.

I will continue to call the motherfucking traitor a motherfucking traitor.

If that offends your sensibilities..... go fuck yerself.

[Wounded Bear]

11. When do we get to tell trump to STFU with his name calling?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[Irish_Dem]

24. There you go again hurting Trump's delicate fee fees again.

Fetter-man will not be happy.

[Cha]

45. EXACTLY. According to Fetterman...

because I haven't read he's "begged" Traitor to shut the fuck up about the "Radical Left" and how he's coming after Blue Cites.

But, Fetterman is begging Dems to Not say what and who Traitor and his fucking army of Ice Heads are?

Suppose to roll over are we?

GMAFB.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. Lots of autocrats are democratically elected

Bukele, Ergodan, and Orban say hello.

[William Seger]

96. ... who immediately started doing the same things the faux-king fascist is doing now.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

100. Under our system of government our rights aren't supposed to be contingent on who is in office.

[Raven123]

13. Is anyone going to primary Fetterman?

[dgauss]

14. He was elected, therefore it's impossible for him to act like an autocrat.

That's not logic, that's stupidity. Fetterman is an embarrassment.

[Initech]

15. Hell no! Fuck Donny Dipshit and his psycho goon squad!

[AloeVera]

17. Fetterman is ill-informed, to put it nicely.

Today's autocrats don't seize power by coup d'etat like Pinochet. They use democratic tools to gain power and then start to dismantle them, destroying democracy from within. Corrupting the courts, higher education, cultivating an "us" vs "them" mentality, taking control of the election processes and above all using deception, disinformation and gaslighting. ALL of which is Trump is doing.

All Democrats know this, why doesn't Fetterman? The answer is becoming pretty obvious, no?

[KentuckyWoman]

18. Putin and Kim Jong Un are elected.

They are both autocrats by every definition. They even "follow the law", by forcing change to the laws in their favor. By contract, Trump does not have any use for the law. He's not only an autocrat, but also a dictator - now that he's taken to enforcing his own rule through the use of the military.

Even if there are elections in 26 or 28, they will be stacked in his favor in advance... again.

[Buns_of_Fire]

22. Senator, I have never called Dear Leader an autocrat.

Why waste syllables when "nazi" works just as well?

[Cha]

49. Good one.. yeah, I haven' used "autocrat" either...

Nazi sure and Fried Orange Despot.. Fascist Fuck.. etc..

has Fetterman not read how many have Buyers Remorse.. and the Billions spent on his "election"?

Sounds like he's gaslighting again.

[roamer65]

23. Seems Fetterman is proving that it takes brain damage to be a Dump lover.

[Irish_Dem]

26. It's the Kyrsten Sinema syndrome all over again.

Activated by Mitch McConnell and cash.
Lots of it.

[La Coliniere]

25. WTF

Fetterman seems to have lost his ability to see things clearly and needs to stop condemning his own party for their commitment to fight the authoritarian takeover which any fucking fool can see is now upon us. He is our new Manchin and Sinema. The question now is, how much harm will his unnecessary comments do to Democrats? He’s not a team player and seems to rejoice in doing the repuke’s bidding.

[Baitball Blogger]

27. Fetterman, he wants some us dead.

No democratic election would justify the thing he says and does.

[choie]

28. Autocrats can be elected

you stupid tool! Ever heard of Hitler?

[Doodley]

29. Who said Trump was like Hitler? Vance. Who said Trump was a conman? Rubio. Who said Trump was a race-baiting xenophobic

bigot? Lindsay Graham. Nobody needs to give Democrats a lesson on what we can or cannot call Ttump.

[Solly Mack]

30. "This is not an autocrat, this is a product of a democratic election."

It can't be rape, they are married.

[William Seger]

94. Fetterman should definitely read some history

He's a WANNABE autocrat, chipping away at our democracy to get there — funny how history rhymes.

[Solly Mack]

95. Wouldn't hurt, might help.

[Klarkashton]

31. Trump tried the coup path and it didn't work.

So he spent four years in exile and billions of other people's money to convince weak minds to reflect him.

[sheshe2]

33. He was the wrong choice from the very beginning.

His holding a black jogger at gun point should have been what ended his campaign. Some didn't see it that way.

Democrats Chose John Fetterman Over Conor Lamb. Now There Are Regrets.

When he ran for Senate in 2022, Conor Lamb was thrashed by over 30 points in the Democratic Senate primary. He lost every county in the state as the left rallied behind John Fetterman and against the young lawmaker who was dismissed as a centrist stooge and veritable Joe Manchin clone.

Progressives want you to know they’re sorry about that.

In light of Fetterman’s seeming estrangement from the Democratic Party and his evolution into “Trump’s favorite Democrat,” the left has reconciled with Lamb, wondering if maybe they were a little too tough on the once up-and-coming lawmaker who had shot to national attention by winning a deep red district in a 2018 special election.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was among the first to go public with her buyer’s remorse. After Lamb rebuked Fetterman on X a few months ago in response to a post from his former political rival attacking Democrats who voted against a Republican funding bill to keep the government open, Ocasio-Cortez wondered aloud about where she could “submit her Conor Lamb apology form.”

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/08/07/conor-lamb-john-fetterman-progressive-remorse-00493728

[Cha]

58. Big Mistake! Only I was for Conor Lamb and

got told how "Centrist" he was.. and Fetterman "was the real deal".. Yeah Not so Much.

Wow.. AOC apologized to Conor Lamb! I read what Lamb said a few months ago.. and so glad to see it.

Mahalo for this, she!

[sheshe2]

64. IKR?!

Some of us knew, others didn't listen. I will add that it wasn't the stroke that changed him, this is who he always was, and I never trusted a word he said.

TY, Cha.

[Cha]

68. We were drowned out.. Good on you

knowing that he turned out to be kinda like a chameleon.

Thank you, she.

[sheshe2]

99. Yes, we were, Cha.

[Brenda]

35. And America begs Fetterman to remember who voted for him. Ass. nt

[misanthrope]

36. That stroke damaged him more than he admits to himself

The things said by his staffers would only add to that.

[regnaD kciN]

39. Can we introduce the "Fetterman Exemption" here at DU...

…which would specifically exempt Fettermanchin from the site’s rules against “bashing Democratic public figures?”

[gulliver]

41. Fetterman is based.

I voted for Harris for sure. But we lost.

Trump is definitely triggering every trigger. But that doesn't mean we have to let him play us like a violin all the time, abscond with our working class base demographics, etc.. We need to get in the game. Trump and Trumpism are beatable, but not if we lose our minds all the time every time he tweaks one of us.

To their credit, a lot of Democratic leaders are starting to get it imo. I include Newsom, Fetterman, and Buttigieg among them and many others.

This bit about calling people Nazis, talking about words as if they are violence, etc., they are frankly childish. But, they are the kind of childishness that causes disaster for the political party that won't disassociate itself from it. Our mature Dem leaders can lead us to a better future. We should definitely let them.

[sinkingfeeling]

43. I think Fetterman flunked political science 101.

[greatauntoftriplets]

44. I'll stop calling him the "marmalade shartcannon"

when they close my cold, dead mouth.

[bluestarone]

46. I saw he was coming up this morning on MSNBC. (i thought, no way i was gonna listen to him)

Glad i didn't.

[Cha]

61. Oh and the media likes this.. a"dem" calling

out Dems. So Fetterman gets his infamy ad nauseum.

[Crunchy Frog]

47. What an irrelevant piece of crap.

[sakabatou]

51. I'll call a bully a bully, or worse.

Get your head out of your ass, Fetterman.

[orangecrush]

52. JFC

[Turbineguy]

53. And take away a source of pleasure?

Reading or hearing his new nick names is the only good part of his regime.

[Bread and Circuses]

54. Hmm, Hitler was democratically elected

We can always count in Fetterman to want the spotlight on Him

[msongs]

90. actually he lost the election and was made chancellor in compromise. it was thought he could be controlled then nt

[Mblaze]

55. We're just going to have to include

Opportunist John Fetterman on our name-calling list.

[bucolic_frolic]

56. Only thing I can say for Fetterman

is he understands that Pennsylvania politicians have to tack toward the middle if they want to win elections.

[niyad]

57. I have come to the conclusion that whatever is inside the fetterman suit

is an alien.

Where are K and J?

[chiffondior]

59. I'm begging John Fetterman to start being a Democrat.

[Quanto Magnus]

60. I will be happy when he's

not in politics anymore.

[doc03]

62. What the fuck a matter with him?

[Ponietz]

66. Fetterman is compromised

Isn’t it obvious?

[Fiendish Thingy]

67. Countdown to your retirement

I sure hope Shapiro runs for Fetterman’s seat.

[Johonny]

69. Did he ask Trump to stop calling us terrorists

UnAmerican, criminals, . . .

Holy fuck, Trump hates us. Listen to him.

[William Seger]

70. No, he's not a fascist dictator... YET!

He's a WANNABE fascist dictator working very hard to destroy the barriers, as ALL of them were at some point!

[BidenRocks]

71. FU F!

[Six117]

72. No.

Nt.

[progressoid]

74. I also have a problem with the use of autocrat...

My problem is that most voters in American don't know what that means.

[johnnyfins]

76. Is anyone surprised? How about you just leave

the party, Fetterman? The problem is that not enough people are calling out this regime. And you are going to scold people who are reacting to what this POTUS and admin are actually DOING? Tell diaper don we all say hi.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

77. What the actual fuck, Sen. Fetterman!

Tell your buddy, Donnie Boy to stop calling Democrats names! See how far that gets you!

[johnp3907]

80. Syme.

“One of these days, thought Winston with sudden deep conviction, Syme will be vaporized.”

[MissouriDem47]

81. Wikipedia Has a List

Wikipedia has several pages of names that TACO has called others. It starts with names he has called other politicians. There are multiple names for the 57 people listed. He had four names just for Joe Biden, they were:
Crooked Joe
Joe Hiden
Sleepy Joe
Slow Joe.

There are also several different categories of names with multiple listings under each. The categories are:
Foreign leaders
Media Figures
Groups of People
TV programs
Organizations
Other People.

TACO has had a free pass his entire life but not this time.

[TexLaProgressive]

82. I made the bike staff fall on the floor laughing

One of them showed me a very bent wheel. Out of my mouth popped, "Ah, a great likeness of the president. You should send it to the White House."

A bent wheel is tacoed

[marble falls]

84. What's he asking President Shitbird to give up?

[miyazaki]

85. Fucking Grendel man.

Eating his own.

[dalton99a]

87. Sickening. Zero self-respect. FUCK THAT SHIT

[mountain grammy]

88. I am so sorry to see this

I honestly thought he was one of us.. a bit eccentric but a good guy who saw the truth in the world. I sure got him wrong.
I wish, since he's so popular with republicans, he'd tell them to back off.

[Bread and Circuses]

89. He needs to leave the senate!

[Tetrachloride]

91. If Scut Farkus had more friends, none of them would be Fetterman.

[unblock]

92. If the definition of an autocrat is someone elected by democratic means, then it's impossible to detect an autocrat

before it's too late.

Sham, rigged, or no elections are certainly a hallmark of an establish autocrat, but it's absolutely entirely possible for an autocrat to come to power through legal, even democratic means.

Even if we were being slightly inaccurate (which we're not), fetterman should first give republicans lectures on why they shouldn't be calling us Marxists or extremists or violent or evil or calling anything good the government does "socialism", etc., before he tells us we need to refine our name-calling.

[johnnyfins]

102. EXACTLY. That's how you know Fetterman

was TOLD toake this statement. Somebody has the goods on him.

[JustAnotherGen]

97. No

He's a shit ass and Im going to call him one.

[sheshe2]

113. ...

[AStern]

101. John Fetterman: Gaslighting troll

Resign

[milestogo]

104. He is not thinking straight.

I don't know if its his politics or dementia, but he stopped making sense a while ago.

[Figarosmom]

105. I wonder hiw he feels when

Trump marches troops into Philly And the residents start calling him.

[WestMichRad]

106. And Dems beg their elected representatives to actually do SOMETHING...

… to stop the orange monster from running roughshod over our government and our country. Yet they seem to be doing virtually nothing.

[Justice matters.]

114. Yeah, no wonder their numbers are in the low 30s...

If Fetterman and company showed a real fight, maybe they could be in the 60s (propose Universal Healthcare, paid maternity leaves, six-weeks paid vacations, and taxes for the ultra-rich back to where they were during President Carter) for an easy example.

[Iggo]

108. Soon as Trump stops.

Which is to say: Never.

[struggle4progress]

110. Oh, Fetterman, where you gonna run to?

Fetterman
Where you gonna run to?
Where you gonna run to?
All on that day

So I ran to the donald
He was waiting
I ran to the donald, he was waiting
Ran to the donald, he was waiting
All on that day

[dpibel]

118. Nice

[republianmushroom]

112. DINO ?

[CentralMass]

115. Definition of autocrat -

noun
a ruler who has absolute power.
"like many autocrats, Franco found the exercise of absolute power addictive"
Similar:
absolute ruler
dictator
despot
tyrant
monocrat
authoritarian
absolutist
someone who insists on complete obedience from others; an imperious or domineering person.
"Eva was an autocrat—people didn't argue unless they had a lot of courage"

[LeftInTX]

116. I can think of some names for Fetterman

"Mr Hoodie"
"Mr Middle Schooler in a 50 year old body"
"Mom didn't teach him how to dress"
"Mr No Decorum"

I say, free speech!! We can call him what we want.

[JoseBalow]

117. Leave drumpf alone!

[Takket]

119. The voters of PA elected him to replace Pat Toomey, not Kirsten Sinema

[Jack Valentino]

120. JOHN, SHUT UP, SIT DOWN, and STOP TRYING to DICTATE MY FREE SPEECH!

OK, TRUMP is NOT HITLER-------- YET--------


but he's a HITLER-WANNABE who keeps MEIN KAMPH on his bedside table!

[MustLoveBeagles]

121. Sigh

[electric_blue68]

122. Some posters highlighted Fetterman's still good Dem voting record. He's also said questionable...

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things recently.

We could remind the Senator about drumphf's "dictator on day one" comment.

No he's not an autocrat...yet. But he loves dictators. He keeps breaking laws, etc, that's an autocratic tendency. He demands fealty. The Senator needs to be reminded of all this.

[canetoad]

123. I've though this for a long time

But have not said anything. From what I've read and seen, I think JF is a fragile and slightly unstable person. I love eccentric - been accused of this myself. However it's usually not the attribute needed in a politician in times like this. IMO Fetterman is a snowflake whose fragile persona needs the way to be smooth and conflict free.

[intheflow]

124. The more he talks, the more I imagine him taking money

to look the other way when Musk jury-rigged PA’s voting machines.

[walkingman]

126. Just be thankful you don't have Ted Cruz as a Senator - things could definitely be worse.

[dlk]

127. Could be deeply damaging kompromat

And it also wouldn't be surprising if Fetterman’s wife and children have been threatened with deportation.

Remember, Republicans excel at playing dirty.

[no_hypocrisy]

128. In the spirit of Freud's defense mechanism of Transference of Hostility,

I can see my way to start calling John Fetterman names instead.

[karynnj]

129. Fetterman doesn't even reference both sides

When Democratic officials speak of authoritarian, they list specifics. How when for very little reason he sent the National Guard into DC and LA and threatened cities like Chicago and I'm Memphis can he consider calling Trump authoritarian a problem.

He should read Trump's truth social and look at things far worse than "authoritarian" to describe specific Democrats.

Before I clicked in, I thought he was referring to non elected Democrats calling him a Nazi, in dementia or orange. Authoritarian after he concentrated increasing power to himself is ridiculous. He should have simply said that he does not see Trump as authoritarian.

[spanone]

130. GO AWAY.

[GiqueCee]

131. Senator Fetterman...

... there is an old saying that you might want to take to heart: 'Tis better to remain silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
For your sake, I'd like to think your stroke had underlying side effects that have adversely affected your thought processes. Trump is the worst thing that has happened to this country since the Civil War, and for you to defend him in light of the horrors he has visited upon the country is something the people that elected you are not likely to forgive.

[peggysue2]

132. Yikes!

Big John is digging his own political grave as a Democratic senator. To call out his colleagues and constituents over name- calling the biggest name-caller in the Universe while the country unravels is . . .frankly, unforgivable. Has he missed what Trump and his Flying Monkey Brigade are doing at the moment? Does he not see the ongoing destruction of basic American rights day-after-day-after-day?

Something happened to this man.

You cannot appease a bully, Senator Fetterman. There was a time you knew that. Obviously, that time has passed.