Social media explodes after Dem senator makes 'insulting' remark about brains of Trump voters

"Representing a state here, people voted for Trump and voted for me, I have a responsibility to represent my entire state," Slotkin said on ABC's "The View."  "But I don't think there's anyone who feels like what's going on right now is normal. Even if you voted for Trump, right?"

"I think there is a feeling in the country, and I often say this, you know, we're about to turn 250 years old, right? We're still pretty young for a country. These are, like, our angry teenage years. We are going through this push and pull where we're happy, we're sad. We want this, we want that, and what do you do when you have a teenager threatening themselves and others? You just try to get them through this period alive so that their brain can fully form and you can come back to kind of what," Slotkin said before being cut off by Joy Behar.

"Are you talking about Trump?" Behar asked.

"No, I'm talking about our country," Slotkin said. "We're a pendulum swinging. We are a pendulum swinging. I don't think there is an American that thinks this is normal."

Slotkin, elected as a Democrat to the Senate in Michigan in November despite Trump carrying the state, was selected to give the party's response to Trump's recent joint address to Congress.

In a Sunday interview with "Meet the Press," Slotkin acknowledged that the Democratic Party has been "on their heels" since Trump's election. 

"I don't think that's something hidden," she said of the Democratic Party's loss of confidence following its defeat to Trump. "I think it's on us to be clear about not only leadership - and there's lots of leaders in both parties - but also a strategy. I think that's something that, as Trump has been successful in flooding the zone and, like every day, 15 things happening, we are still finding our footing, and I think you can't get better until you admit you have a problem." 

Slotkin's office pointed to her full remarks when Fox News Digital reached out for comment.

Fox News Digital's Jeffrey Clark contributed to this report