Trump Now Shares Call for the Hanging of Political Opponents

In a move that’s set Washington on edge, President Donald Trump turned to his Truth Social platform on Thursday with a barrage of posts that veered into dangerously inflammatory territory.

At the center of the storm: a repost from one of his supporters explicitly calling for the hanging of a group of Democratic lawmakers.

It’s the kind of rhetoric that harkens back to the darkest chapters of American political division, and it’s drawing swift condemnation from across the aisle.

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The trigger? A bipartisan video message released earlier this week by six lawmakers—veterans and national security experts—who reminded U.S. service members and intelligence officials of their oath to the Constitution.

Details of the Matter

In the roughly two-minute clip, they urged troops to “refuse illegal orders” amid what they described as domestic threats to the rule of law.

“You took an oath to the Constitution,” they said, adding a nod to naval tradition: “Don’t give up the ship.”

The group includes Sens. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), along with Reps. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.), Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.), Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.), and Jason Crow (D-Colo.).

None of them named specific illegal orders in the video, but Crow, a former Army Ranger and Bronze Star recipient who’s served in Iraq and Afghanistan, elaborated the next day on Fox News.

“We are standing by our troops, our service members who are often put in very difficult positions, and Donald Trump has put them in very difficult positions,” Crow said.

He pointed to Trump’s past suggestions—like shooting protesters in the legs during his first term, deploying the military to U.S. cities, or even sending troops to polling places—as examples of the kinds of unlawful commands they had in mind.

Trump’s response was immediate and explosive.

Moments after the video surfaced in his feed, he fired off: “This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be allowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM UP???”

Not stopping there, he escalated: “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”

But the real gut-punch came in the reposts. Trump amplified messages from his followers, including one that read verbatim:

“HANG THEM GEORGE WASHINGTON WOULD !!”

It’s a stark invocation of revolutionary-era justice, twisted into a modern call for vigilante violence against elected officials.

The post, shared directly from Trump’s account, didn’t come with any disclaimer or caveat—it just hung there, bold and unfiltered, for his millions of followers to see.

In a Time Where Political Violence Has Risen

This isn’t Trump’s first brush with overheated rhetoric, of course.

His online presence has long been a megaphone for unbridled fury, from election denialism to attacks on the press.

But sharing a direct call for execution?

That’s a line that even some of his staunchest allies are tiptoeing around.

Republicans in his orbit, like Stephen Miller, a key architect of his immigration policies, didn’t hold back on the Democrats, accusing them of stoking “insurrection” and demanding they “resign in disgrace.”

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, meanwhile, kept it short and snide on X: “Stage 4 TDS.”

(That’s Trump Derangement Syndrome, for the uninitiated—a favorite dismissal among the MAGA crowd.)

The lawmakers targeted in the video didn’t flinch. In a joint statement released Thursday afternoon, they pushed back hard, framing their message as a defense of the very oaths Trump once swore himself.

“We are veterans and national security professionals who love this country and swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States,” they wrote.

“That oath lasts a lifetime, and we intend to keep it. No threat, intimidation, or call for violence will deter us from that sacred obligation.”

They called it “telling” that the president views restating the law as a death-penalty offense, and reassured service members: “We have their backs as they fulfill their oath to the Constitution and obligation to follow only lawful orders.”

The Capitol Reacts

The backlash rippled through the Capitol. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took to the floor with a rare show of bipartisan urgency.

“Let’s be crystal clear: the president of the United States is calling for the execution of elected officials,” he thundered.

“This is an outright threat, and it’s deadly serious. Every time Donald Trump posts things like this, he makes political violence more likely.

None of us should tolerate this kind of behavior.”

With midterms looming and Trump’s grip on the GOP tighter than ever, this episode feels less like a slip-up and more like a signal.

Is it a preview of the retribution he’s promised if his legal battles don’t go his way?

Or just another Thursday in the Trump era, where outrage is the default setting?

Veterans’ groups and military analysts are already weighing in privately, expressing alarm that such posts could erode trust in the chain of command.

Crow, drawing from his own deployments, has long warned about the blurred lines between politics and the battlefield.

Slotkin, a former CIA analyst, has spent her career dissecting threats from abroad—now she’s staring one down from Pennsylvania Avenue.

What Happens Now?

In the end, this isn’t just about one viral post or a forgotten video.

It’s a stark reminder of how fragile the guardrails of democracy can feel when the loudest voice in the room is cheering for the gallows.

As Schumer put it, every American has a stake in calling it out.

Whether that happens—or whether it fades into the next news cycle—remains to be seen.

But for now, the echoes of “HANG THEM” are reverberating far beyond Truth Social.

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