President Donald Trump feels that if an American doesn't clap for him, he considers it as treason. Last week, Trump showed annoyance when the Democratic party did not clap for him at the State of Union. He began to say "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." What surprises me in this situation is how arrogant and clueless this man can be. First, the official term of treason is to overthrow the government of the state that one shows allegiance or to kill or injure someone whom you have allied with. No one in this situation harmed him physically but it seems they have harmed his pride and dignity. And no one had made an attempt to overthrow the government that he resides himself in. Second, I find it disgusting that he could be so arrogant to think that everyone must have him in their favor and like him, even after everything he has said and done in the past year of his presidency. Even though the situations are completely different, I find many similarities between this and Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to kneel to the national anthem. I find a link where people don’t align themselves with they don’t trust. I feel the democratic party wasn’t wrong in this situation and has the right to clap for who they want. What are your initial thoughts on this topic? Do you think Americans, both democratic and republican, have an obligation to clap at an event like that, or do you feel anyone has the right to clap for who they want?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/05/politics/trump-speech-treason/index.html
As we seen in class this week there are tons of examples on how even our president could be labled as treasonous. You can’t label these people as treasonous because they didn’t respond to you the way that you would have pleased. None of these democrats did anything close to what someone like Benedict Arnold has ever done. This is an outrage and is something that should never have been said
ReplyDeleteIt seems that he does not know the definition of the word treason or else he wouldn't have made a statement like that. I fail to realize why so many peope side with him through everything he has done.
DeleteTrunp seeing these people as doing acts of treason is very wrong of him to say. As the presidnent he suppose to show people the right of way to act and handle situations and being mad people didn't clap for you is wrong. If he keeps acting or feeling like this then people who are allowed to express how they feelwould be wrongfully treated. This also shows how poeple in our gov't might be doing or saying certain things off how they feel and this is totally wrong.
ReplyDeleteFor Trump to say that Democrats are treasonous for not clapping for him is outrageous because the past shows that things and connection that Trump has is treason.I feel like Trump disowns the first amendment when it does not effect him. This is affecting the government on a national level because Trump is the face of the government and this shows that he wants to follow under a dictatorship which is not what America stands by therefore Trump is effecting America’s image by his dictator acts.
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