Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) on Monday hit back at Donald Trump after the president suggested Democrats who did not clap for him during the State of the Union may have committed “treason.”
During a speech in Cincinnati on Monday, Trump told the crowd Democrats “were like death and un-American” during his speech last week.
"They were like death and un-American. Un-American,” Trump claimed. “Somebody said, 'treasonous.' I mean, Yeah, I guess why not? Can we call that treason? Why not? I mean they certainly didn't seem to love our country that much."
Duckworth hit back at those remarks.
“We don’t live in a dictatorship or a monarchy,” Duckworth, a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, tweeted. “I swore an oath ― in the military and in the Senate ― to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, not to mindlessly cater to the whims of Cadet Bone Spurs and clap when he demands I clap.”
