House Speaker Mike Johnson Appears To Agree That Trump Is “Unhinged”

House Speaker Mike Johnson appears to have admitted that U.S. President Donald Trump is “unwell.”

In a confrontation with Democratic Rep. Madeleine Dean on Tuesday, Johnson seemingly conceded to her point that the president was “unhinged.”

Footage of the exchange emerged on MSNBC’s All In With Chris Hayes on Wednesday night after the pair were earlier filmed discussing Trump’s AI video slammed as racist.

“The president is unhinged. He is unwell,” Dean can be heard telling Johnson.

“A lot of folks on your side are too, I don’t control him,” Johnson replied, without disputing that Trump was unwell.

Dean then referenced Trump’s speech to top military brass at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, during which Trump told gathered generals they could leave if they didn’t like what he was saying, but then they would be sacked.

He also told reporters beforehand that he would fire admirals and leaders he didn’t like “on the spot.”

“Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals?” Dean said to Johnson ahead of the federal government shutdown.

Johnson then claimed he “didn’t see it.”

“It’s so dangerous! You know I serve on Foreign Affairs and Appropriations, it’s a collision of those two things,” Dean continued.

“Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a president who is unwell.”

This was not the only tense exchange between the pair that day. Dean also criticized Johnson for failing to condemn a Truth Social post on Trump’s account.

In Trump’s AI-generated clip, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is wearing a sombrero and has a handlebar mustache, while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer tells the media that the Democrats are giving illegal immigrants free health care because they need new voters. Mariachi music plays in the background of the clip.

After receiving backlash, Trump doubled down to share a second post.

In that clip, Jeffries is speaking to MSNBC about the AI-generated footage, describing it as “disgusting” while a news banner at the bottom of the clip describes the footage as racist.

While Jeffries is speaking, a sombrero and handlebar mustache land on his face, and four AI-generated versions of Trump pop up in the background wearing sombreros and playing Mexican music.

In footage that emerged Tuesday, Dean directly addressed the clips inside the Capitol building, pressing Johnson on whether he had raised the issue with Trump.

Johnson told her, “It wasn’t my style.”

“Not your style?” Dean responded. “It’s disgraceful, it’s bigoted, it’s racist. You should call it out.”

Johnson then simply asked if the clip was racist.

“Is is racist?” Dean exclaimed. “You put a sombrero on a black man who is the leader of the house. You don’t see that as racist? We need you desperately to lead.”

In a later interview on CNN with Kaitlan Collins, Johnson was asked about the confrontation and said he always stops to hear complaints from all members as Speaker of the House.

“We disagree on every policy matter, and she was concerned about a social media post of the president, which he meant as a joke, and we talked about that,” he told Collins.

“I told her I disagreed with her perspective on it, but I tried to bring her back to the real issue.

“The fight tonight is not about social media posts. The fight is about where they’re going to keep the government open for the American people,” Johnson added.