Hakeem Jeffries' call to fight Trump agenda ‘in the streets’ sparks backlash as a 'Maxine Waters moment'

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., recovered herself trending connected societal media Friday aft House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., pledged Democrats would combat President Donald Trump's docket "in the streets."

The Democratic person made the arguable remarks erstwhile asked astir Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams' deficiency of pushback against Trump, and whether it made him a "good fit" to pb the Big Apple.

"Right now, we're going to support absorption connected the request to look retired for mundane New Yorkers and mundane Americans who are nether battle by an utmost MAGA Republican docket that is trying to chopped taxes for billionaires, donors, and affluent corporations and past instrumentality New Yorkers and working-class Americans crossed the state with the bill," Jeffries said.

"That's not acceptable. We are going to combat it legislatively. We are going to combat it successful the courts. We're going to combat it successful the streets."

HAKEEM JEFFRIES PLEDGES DEMOCRATS WILL 'FIGHT' TRUMP AGENDA 'IN THE STREETS'

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif. (Chip Somodevilla / Staff | Bloomberg / Contributor)

Many took to societal media to state that Jeffries had a "Maxine Waters moment."

Waters famously came nether occurrence successful 2018 erstwhile she encouraged her supporters to combat backmost against the Trump medication amid backlash implicit the White House’s "zero-tolerance" migration policy.

"Let’s marque definite we amusement up whenever we person to amusement up. And if you spot anybody from that furniture successful a restaurant, successful a section store, astatine a gasoline station, you get retired and you make a assemblage and you propulsion backmost connected them and you archer them they’re not welcomed anymore, anywhere," Waters told supporters astatine a Los Angeles protest. 

Many saw similarities with the rhetoric from Jeffries:

"Hakeem Jeffries is pulling a Maxine Waters. He's going to get radical wounded and/or arrested saying words similar this! He's calling for radical to ‘fight successful the streets," 1 user wrote. 

Another added, "This needs to STOP! Democrats are trying to entice violence. There needs to beryllium accountability! They did the aforesaid happening during Trump’s past presidency. Maxine Waters! Get them portion determination astatine restaurants! No more!"

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., pledged Democrats would combat President Donald Trump's docket "in the streets." (Getty Images)

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Many others took to social media with beardown opinions astir Jeffries' rhetoric: 

A senior White House official told Fox News, "Hakeem Jeffries indispensable apologize for this disgraceful telephone to violence."

Jeffries spokesperson Christie Stephenson told Fox News Digital, "The conception that Leader Jeffries supports unit is laughable. Republicans are the enactment that pardons convulsive felons who battle constabulary officers. Democrats are the enactment of John Lewis and the close to petition the authorities peacefully."

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Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this report.