Trump
and the first lady travel to Ohio for events on opioid addiction
and tax policy
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Reuters
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday accused
Democrats of being “un-American” and “treasonous” for their lack
of applause during his State of the Union address last week when
he spoke of rising wages and historically low African-American
unemployment.
“They would rather see Trump do badly than our country do well.
That’s what it means,” Trump said during an address on tax reform
at a manufacturing plant in Ohio. “It’s very selfish. It was bad
energy.”
“They were like death and un-American,” said Trump. “Somebody
said ‘treasonous.’ I mean, eh. I guess, why not? Can we call that
treason, why not? I mean they certainly didn’t seem to love our
country very much,” he said.
Democrats gave Trump a decidedly cool reaction during the State
of the Union. While falling unemployment has begun to lift wages,
business executives are mixed on how much to credit Trump.
“The freedom not to clap for ideas you disagree with is called
the 1st Amendment,” Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon
said on Twitter.
Over the past four years, the U.S. economy has added 10 million
jobs and the overall unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest
level since 2000. Wage growth, however, has been sluggish,
although it has shown signs of picking up recently.
During last Tuesday’s address, the president touted his tax cuts
and regulation rollbacks as the reason Americans are finally
seeing more wages after “years and years” of stagnation.
(Reporting by Katanga Johnson; Editing by Tim Ahmann and Lisa
Shumaker)
