Failure to applaud the ostensible achievements of the White House is not only unpatriotic according to the president, but it is now tantamount to treason.

Washington, D.C. — (RT) President Donald Trump has said the failure of Democrats to applaud his achievements during his State of the Union address could amount to treason. Democrats reacted by accusing Trump of not knowing what treason means.

The US president lashed out against the Democratic Party during a speech in Ohio Monday, questioning why they failed to acknowledge the many notable accomplishments he outlined in his first State of the Union speech last week.

Trump explicitly pointed out that Democrats sat stony-faced through his pronouncements that the unemployment rate for Hispanic-Americans and African-Americans was at the lowest point ever. "That means that they would rather see Trump do badly, OK, than our country do well. That is what it means. It is very selfish," Trump said at a manufacturing plant in Blue Ash, Ohio, where he was promoting the recently passed tax cuts.