Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., called Trump “Cadet Bone Spurs” on Monday, pushing back on his remarks that those who did not applaud during his State of the Union address last week were “un-American” or “treasonous.”
“We don’t live in a dictatorship or a monarchy. I swore an oath—in the military and in the Senate—to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, not to mindlessly cater to the whims of Cadet Bone Spurs and clap when he demands I clap,” Duckworth tweeted Monday evening.
We don’t live in a dictatorship or a monarchy. I swore an oath—in the military and in the Senate—to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, not to mindlessly cater to the whims of Cadet Bone Spurs and clap when he demands I clap https://t.co/99gW1yalDl
— Tammy Duckworth (@SenDuckworth) February 6, 2018
Trump never served in the military and received multiple draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the first four being for college and the fifth for heel spurs.
Duckworth has previously used the term “Cadet Bone Spurs” to describe Trump when he blamed Democrats for negatively impacting the military during the partial government shutdown last month.
Duckworth is a retired Army lieutenant colonel and lost both her legs during a tour in Iraq in 2004.
Duckworth’s tweet comes in response to Trump’s remarks earlier Monday as he recounted that Democratic lawmakers were silent when he touted low unemployment among African-Americans and Hispanics during the State of the Union last week.
“You’re up there and you have 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,” he added. “Can we call that treason? Why not. They certainly didn’t seem to love our country very much.”
