President Donald Trump slammed the six Democrats who appeared in a video telling troops to defy “illegal” orders.
“Each one of these traitors to our country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
In a second post, 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???”
The video, which was posted on Tuesday by Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., has drawn the ire of Republicans and the Trump administration. The Democrats in the video include Slotkin, Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.,; Rep. Chris Deluzio, D-Pa.,; Rep. Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H.,; Rep. Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., and Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo. All the lawmakers in the video highlighted their former service in the military and intelligence community.
Slotkin and her colleagues have spent recent weeks introducing legislation to limit President Trump’s ability to deploy National Guard members domestically or launch military action against narcoterrorists without congressional approval.
None of that context appears in the video, titled “Don’t Give Up the Ship,” which instead frames the appeal as a warning to military members to “stand up for our laws” and “refuse unlawful orders.”
War Secretary Pete Hegseth responded to the video on X, writing, “Stage 4 TDS.”
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