Multiple House Democrats said on Thursday that they would continue to call former President Donald Trump a “threat to democracy” — even after calls for the party to tone down its language in the wake of a second assassination attempt on the Republican nominee.

Fox Business correspondent Hillary Vaughn asked three House Democrats if they “think it’s time for Democrats to stop calling Trump a threat to democracy,” and all of them defended the description for the Democratic Party’s political rival.

“No, the fact of the matter is that he is a threat to democracy,” said Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA).

Rep. Pramilla Jayapal (D-WA) responded to the Fox Business reporter’s question, saying, “No, I think we should be clear that he is a threat to democracy.

“Do you think the rhetoric needs to be toned down?” Vaughn pressed.

“I think [Trump’s] rhetoric should be toned down, absolutely,” Jayapal replied.

“Listen, these are the facts; he is a threat,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) added. “Period. Point blank.”

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DISGRACEFUL: House Democrats tell Fox News that they will refuse to stop calling President Trump a “threat” after the second attempt on his life in two months.

“He is a threat. Period. Point Blank” pic.twitter.com/bu8cj6orEv

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 20, 2024

Trump slammed the Democrats’ “rhetoric” and “lies” about him after Secret Service agents fired on a man who allegedly hid out for 12 hours near Trump’s golf course in South Florida to take a shot at the Republican nominee.

“Because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also defended calling Trump a “threat” earlier this week when she was confronted by Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Peter Doocy.

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“It’s been only two days since somebody allegedly tried to kill Donald Trump again, and you’re here at the podium of the White House briefing room calling him a ‘threat,’” Doocy said during a White House press briefing on Tuesday. “How many more assassination attempts on Donald Trump until the president, the vice president, and you pick a different word to describe Trump other than ‘threat’?”

“Peter … I actually completely disagree with the premise of your question. The question that you’re asking, it is also incredibly dangerous in the way that you’re asking it,” Jean-Pierre responded. “Because the American people are watching, and to say that from an administration who has consistently condemned political violence, from an administration that the president called the former president and was thankful, grateful that he was okay … and now for you to make that comment in your questioning … that is also incredibly dangerous.”

Jean-Pierre then said her description of Trump as a “threat” is accurate, arguing, “What I have said about the former president about January 6 is facts.”

Director James Cameron reflected on one of his first films, “The Terminator,” and how elements of it have not stood the test of time.

The 70-year-old filmmaker called the action movie “pretty cringeworthy” on the 40th anniversary of its big premiere.

“I don’t think of it as some Holy Grail, that’s for sure,” Cameron told Empire during a recent interview. “I look at it now and there are parts of it that are pretty cringeworthy, and parts of it that are like, ‘Yeah, we did pretty well for the resources we had available.’”

”Just the production value, you know? I don’t cringe on any of the dialogue, but I have a lower cringe factor than, apparently, a lot of people do around the dialogue that I write,” he continued. “You know what? Let me see your three-out-of-the-four-highest-grossing films — then we’ll talk about dialogue effectiveness.”

“The Terminator” was a major hit when it debuted in 1984, grossing more than $78 million at the worldwide box office and cementing Arnold Schwarzenegger as a major movie star. The film also put Cameron on the map.

“I was just a punk starting out when I directed ‘The Terminator.’ I think I was 29 at the time, and it was my first directing gig,” the Academy Award-winning filmmaker told the outlet. “‘Terminator’ was my first film, and it’s near and dear for that reason.”

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There have been multiple “Terminator” spinoffs since then, and Cameron has alluded to the possibility of more in the future. But he said they won’t be the same.

“This is the moment when you jettison everything that is specific to the last 40 years of Terminator, but you live by those principles,” Cameron told Empire. “You get too inside it, and then you lose a new audience because the new audience care much less about that stuff than you think they do. That’s the danger, obviously, with ‘Avatar’ as well, but I think we’ve proven that we have something for new audiences.”

The filmmaker explained how that meant giving up on returning characters and starting fresh. 

“You’ve got powerless main characters, essentially, fighting for their lives, who get no support from existing power structures, and have to circumvent them but somehow maintain a moral compass. And then you throw AI into the mix,” he went on. 

“Those principles are sound principles for storytelling today, right? So I have no doubt that subsequent ‘Terminator’ films will not only be possible, but they’ll kick a**. But this is the moment where you jettison all the specific iconography.”

This update comes after each subsequent “Terminator” franchise addition has done a little worse than the one before, with “Terminator: Dark Fate” grossing just $62 million in 2019. 

Cameron alluded to more “Terminator” in the future. “It’s more than a plan,” he said. “That’s what we’re doing. That’s all I’ll say for right now.”