By Fresh controversy over incendiary political rhetoric emerged this week after former South Carolina Democratic state Rep. Bakari Sellers likened President Donald Trump and his supporters to a “cancer” and called for their “fumigation,” remarks that quickly drew comparisons to other recent flashpoints involving race, power, and political legitimacy.
Sellers made the comments Friday during an appearance on The Don Lemon Show, arguing that the country requires a far more aggressive response to the Trump movement than the conciliatory approach he said followed Trump’s first term, reported The Daily Caller.
“Like this is a little bit controversial with my friends as I sit politically because I think hindsight is showing us that um what we need after Donald Trump, what we needed after Donald Trump is not a bridge,” Sellers said. “Um you know, Joe Biden was somewhat of a bridge. He was supposed to be a bridge or a palate cleanser or somebody who morally and ethically was antithetical to who Donald Trump was.”
“You know, Uncle Joe was the nice guy, older white guy, comes in and you want to eat ice cream with him, right?” Sellers continued. “Well, I think what that episode in our country’s history showed us is that we really need some fumigation, right? We need an exorcism, for lack of a better term. We need a more aggressive approach to go in and surgically remove the cancer that is the Donald Trump and MAGA movement.”
Sellers went further, rejecting the idea that Trump-era politics represented a temporary malfunction in the system.
“This is not a glitch. This isn’t like you take the cartridge out, blow on it, and put it back in like we did the old Nintendos, right?” he said. “No, this is, this is not, this is not a symptom. This is not, this is not a glitch. This is a part of the product. But we have to make sure that the person who comes next is someone who’s aggressive enough to take the corrective action needed irrespective of what they think the bounds of the office may be.”
The comments surfaced days after a separate controversy involving Texas State Rep. Gene Wu, the Houston Democrat who chairs the Texas House Democratic Caucus, whose resurfaced remarks about demographic power and “taking over this country” sparked widespread backlash online. Wu’s comments, framed by supporters as a call for minority coalition-building, were criticized by opponents as explicit endorsement of identity-based political dominance.
Rep. Gene Wu (D) goes mask off:
"Non-whites share the same oppressor and we are the majority now. We can take over this country." pic.twitter.com/CrxsPqlkLI
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 8, 2026
Local Houston media have claimed that Wu meant “Republicans” not “white people” as if that somehow made the comments less insane.
Wu previously suggested that the government use dones to bomb gun owners.
In case anyone forgot, this is what Gene Wu wants to do to gun owners after his take over is complete https://t.co/6tnDVgttt6 pic.twitter.com/U9ffGzBt9W
— Texas Gun Rights (@TXGunRights) February 9, 2026
Together, the episodes have intensified scrutiny of how leading Democratic voices discuss political opposition — particularly as the rhetoric on the left has shifted from persuasion to removal, correction, or eradication despite assassination attempts against Donald Trump and the murder of Charlie Kirk.
The language drew particular attention because of its biological and chemical framing. “Fumigation,” according to the Cambridge Dictionary, refers to “the use of poisonous gas to remove harmful insects, bacteria, disease, etc. from somewhere or something.”
Sellers, a frequent guest on CNN programs, made the remarks during a conversation with former CNN host Don Lemon. CNN did not respond to a request for comment by The Daily Caller.
While no formal action has been taken in response to Sellers’ remarks, critics argue the language reflects an escalating pattern in which political opponents are framed not merely as wrong, but as threats to be neutralized. Over the past few years, as has been noted multiple times in New Conservative Post, liberals have shown an increased willingness to adopt violence as the Democratic Party has gotten more and more unpopular.
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