"AP Photo/Mary Altaffer On Thursday, President Donald Trump opened his Truth Social account and did what he almost always does when the narrative turns against him: he declared a group of Democratic members of Congresscombat veterans, no lessseditious traitors. Trump wrote, This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP??? President DJT"
"The apparent seditious offense? A short, civics-class video reminding U.S. military personnel of something they learn in basic training: troops must refuse unlawful orders. No insinuations, no subtext, no mention of him. The president also reposted a Truth Social user's call to HANG these individuals, because, he said, it's what George Washington would have done had he been faced with a digital video in the late 1700s."
"But Trump treated it as an attempted coup because he needs something anything to drown out the storylines he could not control. And there are PLENTY to smother. Inflation creeping upward. Markets stalling. A tranche of Epstein filescourt documents he'd claimed were put to restbleeding into the news cycle again and reigniting suspicions he has long tried to scrub away. Polling that looks less like a glide path and more like a stall."
President Donald Trump used his Truth Social account to label several Democratic members of Congress seditious after a short civics video reminded military personnel that troops must refuse unlawful orders. He reposted a user's call to hang the lawmakers and invoked George Washington in defense of the response. The incident functioned as a distraction amid rising inflation, stalling markets, resurfacing Epstein-related court documents, slipping poll numbers, and strains within the MAGA base. Within hours he demanded prosecutions, urged a network to fire Jimmy Kimmel, posted an AI video, and shared self-praising content as part of a rapid-response barrage.
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