Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin calls Trump 'schoolyard bully' after president calls him a 'dope' with an 'ugly face'

Jeff Barker, The Baltimore Sun on Jul 3, 2025

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President Donald Trump took time out from rallying support for his “big, beautiful bill” to call Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin a “dope” with an “ugly face.”

“This DOPE has been consistently losing to me for YEARS, and I love watching his ugly face as he is forced to consistently concede DEFEAT TO TRUMP,” the Republican president wrote on Truth Social as the House debated Trump’s signature mega bill of tax cuts and immigration control spending.

Raskin says Trump’s bill would explode the national debt and end health care coverage for millions. Raskin’s office on Thursday referred a reporter seeking comment to a post the congressman wrote on X.

“Mr. President, you love playing the schoolyard bully but, at age 79, it’s time to cut it out,” the congressman’s post said. “It’s one thing to steal one kid’s lunch money, but your bill STEALS LUNCH MONEY FROM MILLIONS OF KIDS. Now, that’s real ugly.”

Earlier, Raskin said on MSNBC: “I suppose I don’t like being called ugly by Donald Trump, but not everybody can live up to his exquisite levels of handsomeness and personal physical grace.”

Raskin, a former constitutional law professor, was the lead impeachment manager when Trump was impeached for the second time by the House at the end of the president’s first term.

He was among the leaders of the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Trump who sought to block the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Raskin, 62, represents much of the Washington D.C. suburbs located within Montgomery County.

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