Mark Kelly Just Eviscerated Trump in the Most Personal Way Possible After President Floated Executing Him and Other Veterans

Things got unbelievably heated this week when a group of Democratic lawmakers — all military veterans — publicly urged U.S. service members to refuse any unlawful orders from the commander-in-chief. President Trump didn’t take it lightly. He called their actions “seditious behavior at the highest level,” demanded they be arrested, put on trial, and even amplified posts suggesting execution. (He later claimed it wasn’t technically a death threat.)

The Pentagon quickly opened an investigation into the veterans, citing laws against statements that could undermine “good order and discipline” in the military. Some of the lawmakers could reportedly even be recalled to active duty for court-martial.

Then Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), a retired Navy captain and former astronaut, stepped up to the microphone and delivered one of the most cutting, personal clapbacks you’ll ever hear from a sitting senator.

He didn’t yell. He didn’t curse. He just laid out the timelines of their two very different lives:

“Back in 1991, while Donald Trump was busy bankrupting the Taj Mahal casino, I was getting shot at flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait.

In 2001, right after Trump bragged that the fall of the Twin Towers meant he now had the tallest building in downtown Manhattan, I was piloting the Space Shuttle Discovery, carrying flags into orbit that had flown over the World Trade Center site to honor the victims of 9/11.

In 2003, while Trump was writing happy birthday messages to Jeffrey Epstein, I was the pilot who flew the very first mission to recover the remains of my seven crewmates after the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas.

And in 2011, while Trump was on television pushing birther conspiracies about President Obama and firing people on The Apprentice, I was sitting at my wife Gabby Giffords’ hospital bedside after she’d been shot in the head.”

Kelly wrapped it up by saying Trump only has one move in his entire playbook: bully people until they shut up. He did it to contractors he stiffed, to contestants on his TV show, and now he’s trying to do it to decorated veterans who swore the same oath to the Constitution he did.

📷 Mark Kelly speaking at the press conference (Photo: Getty Images)

It’s rare to see a politician go this personal, but when the president of the United States is openly entertaining the idea of executing sitting members of Congress for criticizing him… gloves kind of have to come off.

Wild times we’re living in.