This latest fight over U.S. military service orders is beyond ugly. Not everyone is a fan.

This week, a group of elected Democrats on Capitol Hill got together and made a video addressing U.S. military service members who — progressive lawmakers claim — are concerned about obeying illegal military orders.

While the authors of the video haven’t been able to name a single illegal order issued by U.S. President Donald Trump, the video caused quite a stir in the Oval Office.

“THE TRAITORS THAT TOLD THE MILITARY TO DISOBEY MY ORDERS SHOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW, NOT ROAMING THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS TRYING TO EXPLAIN THAT WHAT THEY SAID WAS OK,” President Trump posted to Truth Social on November 22. “IT WASN’T, AND NEVER WILL BE! IT WAS SEDITION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL, AND SEDITION IS A MAJOR CRIME. THERE CAN BE NO OTHER INTERPRETATION OF WHAT THEY SAID!”

In his role as Commander and Chief of the U.S. military, President Trump is, of course, not only allowed to direct military action, but constitutionally obligated to do so.

“They are suggesting,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday, “that the President has given illegal orders, which he has not. Every single order that is given to this United States military by this commander-in-chief and through this command — chain of command, through the Secretary of War, is lawful.”

“Do you — so, let’s talk right now. Do you believe President Trump has issued any illegal orders?” journalist Martha Raddatz asked Sen. Elisa Slotkin, one of the chief authors of the video.

“To my knowledge, I — I am not aware of things that are illegal, but certainly there are some legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes and everything related to Venezuela,” Slotkin admitted.

“Let me read you what Senator Lindsey Graham said about your video,” Raddatz rejoined: “‘You owe it to the men and women in the military to be specific about what you are talking about. What these senators and House members did was unnerving and it was unconscionable to suggest that the president of the United States is issuing unlawful orders without giving an example.’”

“So, for me, my primary concern is the use of U.S. military on American shores, on our city — in our cities and in our streets,” Sen. Slotkin claimed. “We’ve seen now the courts overturn the deployment of U.S. military into our streets, including here in Washington, D.C.”

“When you look at these videos coming out of places like Chicago, it makes me incredibly nervous that we’re about to see people in law enforcement, people in uniformed military get nervous, get stressed, shoot at American civilians,” she added. “It is very — a very, very stressful situation for these law enforcement and for the communities on the ground.”

But while Sen. Slotkin expresses concern over the U.S. National Gaurd being called upon to enforce the laws in American cities like Chicago, it’s been a devastating weekend of violence in the Windy City.

Over the weekend, Chicago residents were treated to a holiday extravaganza of crime, whereupon 300 rioting “teens” shot five people, injured police officers with stun guns and mace, and wounded untold scores of others in the Loop after the city’s annual tree lighting ceremony.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will also have to explain how a 50-year old man with over 70 prior arrests was free to roam city buses, only to douse a female commuter with gasoline and set her on fire while yelling “Burn alive, bi#$%!”

“In Chicago, the great city shaped by Mayor Richard J. Daley and his son, Mayor Richard M. Daley there is a new policy, a progressive policy,” raged Chicago native son and former Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass. “It is not the law-and-order city. Instead, the liberal politically correct Democrats who have followed the Daleys now refuse to punish repeat violent lawbreakers. The Democrats have become George Soros Social Justice Warriors and the newspapers reflect the progressive view.”

“They shrink the size of the jail population, and congratulate themselves by refusing to punish violent lawlessness, enabling and promoting social justice judges, while releasing violent predators, all the while playing race politics to isolate the good and the lawful, and so guarantee a surplus of lawlessness and anarchy.

These are the hideous progressive sounds of Chicago political corruption: The jails are opened as the Cook County Democrats congratulate themselves, and violent criminal offenders are released from custody so they can attack the law abiding, again and again and again.

“I would like your response to the video itself that Senator Slotkin and the others put out?” Martha Raddatz asked Congressman Michael McCaul over the weekend.

“Well, I don’t speak for the president in terms of hanging members of Congress,” Rep. McCaul responded levelly. “But I will say these orders that they’re talking about, in my judgment, are not illegal orders to follow. They are orders based upon Article 2 self-defense of the Constitution to stop a threat, in this case, the threat of drugs coming into our country and killing Americans.”

“And so, you look at it from that perspective, there are no illegal orders to follow here,” he added. “In the event, Martha, if an invasion does take place down in Venezuela against Maduro and we see perhaps the toppling of governments, which we saw many decades ago from what they call the gringo down in Latin America, that would trigger a War Powers Act response by Congress. We would have 60 days if the conflict is still ongoing to determine whether a declaration of war is warranted or an authorized use of military force.”

“My advice, though not on his White House, but I would tone down the rhetoric and tone down the theme here,” McCaul cautioned levelheadedly. “I would emphasize more what I discussed, and that these orders are not illegal. I mean, they have been sent down on a mission to stop drugs from coming into the United States. And if that means, you know, taking out ships through our aircraft and our air force, then so be it. I — again, I think the orders are legal. That’s the issue.”

(Contributing writer, Brooke Bell)