.....and the Dow Jones Index indicated that financiers and big business might be seriously worried about possibly higher than expected interest rates, rising national debt and the size of the US federal budget deficit Trump created in his first twelve months in office - he also rather unwisely performed in front of the cameras on the subject of treason.
YouTube, Time, 5 February 2018:
(CNN)President Donald Trump wasn't -- and,
apparently, still isn't -- happy that Democrats in Congress didn't stand to
applaud him in his State of the Union address last week.
"They were like
death and un-American. Un-American. 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."
So, here we are. Again.
Let's quickly define
"treason," shall we?
"The offense of
attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the
offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the
sovereign's family."
Trump loyalists will
dismiss all of this as much ado over nothing. He was joking! He didn't even say
that it was treasonous! He was just agreeing with people who said it was
treasonous!
Fine. Also, wrong. And
missing the point in a major way.
The point? It's this:
Not standing during applause lines for the State of the Union isn't treasonous
or un-American. Not even close.
If it was, all of the Republicans
in that chamber are treasonous and un-American as well because when former
President Barack Obama would tout his accomplishments in office -- as Trump was
doing last Tuesday night -- lots and lots of Republican legislators would sit
on their hands while the Democratic side of the aisle erupted in cheers. And so
on and so forth for every president before him (and after).
The
Washington Post,
6 February 2018:
This isn’t the first
time Trump has used the T-word as president. Just last month, he accused
FBI agent Peter Strzok of treason for sending negative text messages about him
during the 2016 election to a lawyer at the FBI who he was having an affair
with. “By the way, that’s a treasonous act,” the
president told the Wall Street Journal. “What he tweeted to his lover is a
treasonous act.”
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