‘Punishable by DEATH’: Trump threatens Democrats with sedition charges

December 2, 2025

United States President Donald Trump has floated the possibility of the

death penalty for a group of Democratic Congress members who called upon

the military and intelligence community to refuse illegal orders.

He also suggested he would be in favour of imprisoning the Democrats for

their statement.

“This is really bad, and Dangerous to our Country. Their words cannot be al

lowed to stand. SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR FROM TRAITORS!!! LOCK THEM

UP???” Trump wrote on Thursday, as part of a series of posts on his plat

form Truth Social.

A follow-up message, published about 40 minutes later, contained only five

words: “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!”

The Democratic Party quickly denounced the Republican leader’s remarks

as “absolutely vile”.

Trump’s threat came in response to a video published on November 18, con

taining clips of six Democratic senators and representatives, all of them vet

erans of the US military or its intelligence services.