Rep. Keith Ellison Keith Maurice EllisonOvernight Health Care — Presented by National Taxpayers Union — Top Dems call for end to Medicaid work rules | Chamber launching ad blitz against Trump drug plan | Google offers help to dispose of opioids Ilhan Omar defends 2012 tweet: 'I don't know how my comments would be offensive to Jewish Americans' States scramble to fill void left by federal shutdown MORE (D-Minn.), the Democratic National Committee's deputy chair, said Friday that, for the millions of Americans who voted for President Trump Donald John TrumpREAD: Cohen testimony alleges Trump knew Stone talked with WikiLeaks about DNC emails Trump urges North Korea to denuclearize ahead of summit Venezuela's Maduro says he fears 'bad' people around Trump MORE, the reality of his administration appears to be "setting in."

"People famously said, 'Don't take him literally, take him seriously,'" Ellison said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "And I think what that means is there's a lot of folks who didn't really believe he was going to try to take healthcare away from 24 million people, they didn't really believe he was going to do some of the things he said.

"He sort of channeled a lot of anger. But now the reality of Trump and Trumpism all over the country is setting in."

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Ellison's comments referred to Trump's support for the GOP's ObamaCare repeal and replace bill, which the Congressional Budget Office found would leave 23 million more people without health insurance.

Ellison's comments came a day after Trump fulfilled a key campaign promise by announcing that the U.S. would leave the Paris climate accord, a move that signaled the president's firmest rebuke yet of former President Obama's environmental policies.

But while Trump has suffered from low approval ratings in his first four months in office, he has maintained the support of a core group of supporters.