The State of the Union is good _ except for those treasonous Democrats.
President Donald Trump on Monday accused congressional Democrats of "treason" and being un-American for failing to clap during his State of the Union address last week.
Trump, who at times led his own applause during that speech, told an Ohio crowd that lawmakers were playing games by refusing to give him credit for even the most positive achievements.
"You know they play games," Trump said during a rally in Blue Ash, Ohio. "They were told don't even make a facial movement. And I'm talking about you have the lowest Hispanic unemployment in the history of our country. This isn't me saying, this is the charts, the polls. We have the lowest in the history of our country. Dead silence, not a smile."
Trump said that at some point he had to stop looking at the Democrats because they were giving off "bad energy."
"You're up there, you've got half the room going totally crazy wild, they loved everything, they want to do something great for our country," Trump said.
"And you have the other side even on positive news, really positive news like that, 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 very much.
"But you look at that and it's really very, very sad. So we have to keep it going because this country is turning and it's turning much faster."
Trump called the lack of Democratic applause "selfish."
The "treason" remark didn't go over well with at least one constitutional scholar.
"If I didn't feel constrained by the Constitution's narrow definition of "treason," I'd say Trump's idiotic equation of Himself with the Nation was treasonous in itself," tweeted Harvard University law professor Laurence Tribe. "I just noticed that the word TREASON includes REASON. No wonder Trump hasn't a clue what it is _ or that he's come closer to committing it than any of his critics."
House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi also took offense.
"Every American should be alarmed by how @realDonaldTrump is working to make loyalty to him synonymous with loyalty to our country," Pelosi tweeted. "That is not how democracy works."
