Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has marched in New York City’s Gay Pride Parade every single year since 1999, when he became the first U.S. senator ever to do so.
On Sunday, the Democrats he’s spent nearly three decades leading let him know exactly what they think of him now.
Video shows Schumer walking the parade route waving a rainbow flag and speaking through a bullhorn, only to be met with boos, hisses, and jeers. Some in the crowd cursed and gave him two thumbs down as he passed.
“Hi everybody, so I was the first senator to ever march in this parade, 1999, and I haven’t missed one yet,” he told the crowd. “Happy Pride, everybody.”
“I was the first senator to march in this parade,” he repeated, “and I’m not the last.”
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The crowd boos Sen. Chuck Schumer during the Pride parade in NYC pic.twitter.com/gnZtEp0oJL
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The angry reception comes from a rebellion inside the radical Democratic Party’s left flank. Schumer’s reception came just a week after California state Sen. Scott Wiener, himself gay, was booed and flipped off while attending a transgender march in San Francisco.
Schumer has faced mounting pressure since New York’s recent primary season, in which socialists candidates aligned with New York City’s radical mayor Zohran Mandami swept three competitive House primaries against establishment-aligned Democrats, including incumbents Schumer’s own party had backed.
President Donald Trump couldn’t resist piling on. Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump mocked Schumer over his criticism of Israel amid the Gaza war, joking that the senator has become “100% Palestinian.”
“In fact, I’ve asked for a beautiful, silk outfit to be sent in the Palestinian tradition. I’m going to send it to him as a birthday present,” Trump said. “It’s the greatest transformation of a political ideology I’ve ever seen.”