We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.
— Senator Elissa Slotkin (@slotkin.senate.gov) November 18, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Instead, President Trump has overreacted, in a way that I think normie voters find unsettling.
In a series of unhinged posts on his social media site, Truth Social, Trump boosted an anonymous user’s message that read, “HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD !!” ...Trump's threats didn't get the reaction he clearly wanted.
In another message, Trump himself called it “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” that members of Congress would release such a video.
“It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL,” the president wrote, in still another message. “Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their words cannot be allowed to stand - We won’t have a Country anymore!!! An example MUST BE SET. President DJT.”
This was too much even for Senate majority leader John Thune, who acknowledged when pressed that he disagreed with the president’s call for the execution of his colleagues. And it provoked a rebuke from National Review and Fox News legal analyst Andy McCarthy: “There is no insurrection or sedition without the use of force. Disobeying a lawful order is insubordination, not insurrection or sedition. Disobeying an unlawful order is required. That is all.”Trump has gotten away with this kind of chest-thumping for years. What's changed now is that the noise he's making online is accompanied by a terrible standard of living in America.
Even Trump’s spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, had to sort of walk back Trump’s statement a few hours later, leading to the remarkable spectacle of a breaking news alert informing the public that, no, the president did not want members of the opposition party killed.
I believe that Trump won the 2024 election because millions of Americans thought conditions in America during his first term were fine -- and relatively normal. You'll say, "Well, what about COVID?" I think many Americans blame the pandemic year on the virus, not on Trump. They don't understand the ways he mismanaged public health, and they know his critics made some mistakes. So by 2024, they gave him a mulligan on 2020. They recalled 2017 through 2019 as pretty good economically, and also as a period of peace overseas. By 2024, when they'd lived through a wave of inflation that left many of them with lingering debt and still-high prices, as well as war in Ukraine and Gaza, they imagined that a second Trump presidency could be -- yes, really -- a return to normality.
Trump's biggest fans used a sarcastic phrase to dismiss his critics: "mean tweets." This was shorthand for: Trump is an excellent president, though even we'll admit that he can be an obnoxious blowhard on social media. But his bark is worse than his bite. He's a much better president than Biden, and he'd be much better than Harris. He'll be so good you libs will have nothing to complain about except your only legitimate complaint about his first term -- mean tweets."
Those of us who were paying attention knew his first presidency was bad and his second presidency would be much worse. We knew he planned to staff his administration with crazy loyalists, not competent institutionalists. We could see that he intended to pursue the burn-it-all-down agenda of Project 2025, and the war-in-the-streets deportation plans of Stephen Miller. We foresaw that he'd turn the Justice Deparftment into his personal mob law firm and that he'd sic the law on all of his enemies. And we knew his beloved tariffs would be recklessly inflationary.
It sucks to live in America now, unless you're a right-wing billionaire. "Mean tweets" are coinciding with hard times and nationwide chaos and disruption. I think Trump might have gotten away with his death threats in his first term, or even early in this term. Now they're bad news for him.
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