President Donald Trump ripped into Democrats on Monday who refused to stand and clap during his joint address to Congress, calling them 'unAmerican' and 'treasonous.'

Their leaders, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer, have 'gone so far left,' a giddy Trump said, 'Oh I look forward to running against them.'

'We've got to do well in '18, and I know we're going to do great in '20,' Trump declared, referring to the midterms this year and his own, expected bid for reelection.

The president said that Pelosi, especially, would be Republicans' 'secret weapon' in November.

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President Donald Trump ripped into Democrats on Monday who refused to stand and clap during his joint address to Congress, calling them 'unAmerican' and 'treasonous'

President Trump talked about his party's fortunes in the upcoming 2018 midterms, telling an Ohio audience, 'I have a feeling that we are going to do incredibly well in '18'

During the speech President Trump said he hoped Democrats would not replace their House leader, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, calling the 'rich woman' the Republicans' 'secret weapon'

The president was in Ohio to talk about the GOP tax bill, but over the course of the speech talked about his party's prospects in the midterms later this year

'They have gone left. They want to raise your taxes. You know, I figure we're safe,' President Trump said Monday in Ohio, suggesting that the Republicans prospects of holding onto the majority in 2018 weren't nearly as dire

Pelosi claimed last week that the GOP's tax slash is nothing more than 'crumbs' to the average American.

'Well she's a rich woman who lives in a big, beautiful house in California, who wants to give all of your money away. And she talked about crumbs,' the billionaire president retorted on Monday.

Trump was in Ohio touting a business that gave it's employees $1,000 bonuses in response to the GOP's sweeping tax cuts.

The president toured and delivered remarks at Sheffer Corporation, a company in Blue Ash that manufactures hydraulic cylinders.

First Lady Melania Trump accompanied her husband to Ohio but did not attend his speech. She separately visited a children's hospital in Cincinnati.

At Sheffer, Trump lambasted Pelosi, the chief House Democrat, and 'what she's doing to this country' as he promoted the Republican-led Congress' tax cut and talked up the GOP's odds at winning in Ohio and elsewhere in the coming elections.

'I think we're going to do well in '18. I think we're going to do very well,' the president said. 'They have gone left. They want to raise your taxes. You know, I figure we're safe.'

Trump acknowledged the ruling party's historical disadvantage in mid-presidency elections.

'The party wins the presidency, and now the people are happy, and you see tax cuts in this case, or whatever that party is going – but you see the big tax cuts. You see what we're doing, jobs are coming back. And the people that voted for us become complacent a little bit,' he said.

Pontificating, Trump said, 'They're happy. And it's only two years, between '16 and '20. And so it's a short time. So the people are happy. And they don't get out and they don't vote like they should. Maybe they go to a movie in '18. None of you are going to a movie, I hope, right?'

In the past, the party that holds the White House has been 'clobbered' in the midterms 'because the other people are desperate, and they get out and they have more energy,' he said.

'But I think because of what we've done, because of the tremendous success we've had, I have a feeling that we're going to do incredibly well in '18. And I have to say this: History's not on our side, but it's not because of that word, complacency,' he stated. 'You win the presidency and you take it easy and then they come and surprise you in the midterms. They call them the midterms.'

President Trump gives a wave as he tours the Sheffer Corporation in Blue Ash, Ohio on Monday, heralding the company for making use of the GOP-led tax cut

President Trump gives a fist bump as he leaves Cincinnati Ohio on Monday, he slammed Democrats during a speech in the state, suggesting his party would do well in the 2018 midterms

First lady Melania Trump split off from her husband upon landing in Ohio, as she toured Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and learned about their opioid care

First lady Melania Trump meets with children Monday at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medial Center

If Democrats take control of the House and the Senate, he warned his audience of blue-collar workers, Pelosi and Schumer will move to raise their taxes - and they'll cut down military spending.

'Start thinking about November. Start finding out exactly that little slot. You're not going to a restaurant. Although you could go. You could go and vote, and go to a restaurant. But that's what happens and we're not going to let that happen to us,' he said.

Hammering Pelosi for her 'crumbs' remarks, Trump compared the gaffe to Hillary Clinton's claim in 2016 that his supporters were 'deplorables.'

Echoing a riff he made on the subject last week at the GOP's private retreat, Trump said, 'When I first heard the word "deplorable," I thought it was a bad thing but I had no idea it was not going to be good for our opponent.

'It just went pretty wild. It was not a good day for her. And I think this is not a good day for Nancy Pelosi,' he said. 'She's our secret weapon... I just hope they don't change her! There are a lot of people that want to run her out. She's really out there. And I'm supposed to make a deal with her?'

Drew Hammill, a spokesman for Pelosi, hit back minutes after Trump's speech ended.

'As the Dow nosedives on his watch, the President’s rambling, deceitful tax scam sales pitch reached an all-time low in Cincinnati,' Hammill said in a statement that called the GOP's reforms a 'scam.'

Hammill invoked House Speaker Paul Ryan's now-deleted tweet celebrating a woman's $1.50 a week increase in take home pay after the cut that was supposed to help the middle class.

'President Trump is desperately seeking to hide the multi-billion dollar corporate windfalls of the GOP tax scam behind meager, one-time bonuses,' he said. 'Republicans have been caught red-handed enriching their wealthy corporate donors at the expense of working families, and the American people recognize the tax scam for exactly what it is.'

Democrats' leaders, Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer, have 'gone so far left,' a giddy Trump said Monday, 'Oh I look forward to running against them'

In his remarks, the president had slammed Democratic lawmakers for an array of behavior he found offensive - including their unfavorable responses to his State of the Union address.

'You had half the room going totally crazy wild. They loved everything. They want to do something great for our country. And you have the other side, even on positive news, really positive news like that, they were like death, and unAmerican. UnAmerican,' he said.

'Somebody said treasonous. I mean, yeah, I guess, why not? Can we call that treason? Why not? I mean, they certainly didn't seem to love our country very much. But you look at that and it's really very, very sad.'

President Trump also took aim at the other party's rejection of his offer to provide 1.8 million illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children a pathway to citizenship in exchange for the $25 billion he requested for his border wall and changes to the visa system that would cut down on the number of eligible applicants.

'You got to build that wall,' an audience member told Trump as he touched on the subject.

Trump replied, 'Oh, we're building the wall. Believe me. We're building the wall. Don't even think about it.'

'And the ones that don't want security at the southern border or any other border, are the Democrats. They don't care about the security of our country,' he accused. 'They don't care about MS-13 killers pouring into our country. And we bring them out almost as fast as they come in. But nobody was bringing them out before us. And these are killers.'

The Trumps' round trip to Ohio kept them away from a hornet's nest in Washington that began with a classified memo and FISA warrant and grew to include the tanking stock market.

Trump declassified a memo on Friday that had been put together by top Republican lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee and accuses the Department of Justice and FBI of FISA surveillance abuses.

The controversial document, nicknamed the 'Nunes memo' after the committee's Republican chair, California Rep. Devin Nunes, claims the FBI relied heavily on an unverified dossier of dirt on Trump to obtain permission from a secretive court to surveil one of his unpaid foreign policy advisers on the basis of their alleged connections to the Kremlin.

The adviser, Carter Page, made a trip to Moscow in 2016 that was technically unaffiliated with Trump's campaign, though he provided readouts of his activities to senior staff. He was revealed last week to have bragged about being an 'informal advisor to the staff of the Kremlin' in a 2013 letter.

Federal officials authorized surveillance on Page before and after Trump took office that was carried out with the permission of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge, the Nunes memo revealed.

Nunes classified memo had been the subject of partisan bickering for weeks that reached new heights on Friday when President Trump approved the document's release.

Former FBI Director James Comey, ex-deputy director Andrew McCabe and the Trump-appointed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein were among the senior law enforcement officials to give the application for surveillance their stamp of approval.

Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee claim that McCabe, who slid into retirement last week, told them in a closed-door session that the dossier, which was complied by an ex-British spy and funded by the Democratic Party, was the basis for the FISA warrant to spy on Page.

Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the committee and one of the only Members of Congress who has seen the warrant, has said the claims are untrue.

Trump gave the Democratic Congressman - who he called 'Little Adam Schiff' in a tweet - a tongue-lashing this morning before his Ohio departure.

The president said that Schiff 'is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington..Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!'

As he announced his decision to declassify the memo on Friday, President Trump said 'A lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that.'

The president suggested at the tail end of his remarks Rosenstein's job was in jeopardy, inciting panic within the Beltway that a Nixon-esque Saturday Night Massacre was on the way.

White House deputy press secretaries Raj Shah and Hogan Gidley were sent to play clean up on Fox News and CNN.

'It's been very clear throughout the process in the White House, there are no conversations and no considerations about firing Rod Rosenstein,' Gidley said.

Shah reconfirmed the White House's position to reporters traveling on Air Force One on Monday.

'There’s no consideration about any personnel moves at the DOJ,' the Trump spokesman said.

President Trump's tour of Sheffer on Monday was in support of the agenda he reviewed in his national address on the State of the Union last Tuesday.

The Cincinnati trip as one of the only ones he had lined up after opting out of the travel blitz that has traditionally dovetailed presidents' remarks to a joint session of Congress.

The president is touring and delivering remarks at Sheffer Corporation, a company in Blue Ash that manufactures hydraulic cylinders

Other events outside the White House last week were strictly limited to Republican legislators attending a retreat in West Virginia and Republican National Committee members in Washington for the political organ's winter meeting.

Trump made a short jaunt to Sterling, Virginia, on Friday afternoon for a discussion on border security with immigration officials before spending the weekend away in Palm Beach, where he attended a Super Bowl Party at his private golf club.

His visit this afternoon to Ohio, a state that he won in 2016, is his third trip to Cincinnati since he was elected.

Last time he was in town, Trump pushed a $1 trillion infrastructure plan that his administration was unable to get off the ground.

Trump hopes to make a new push for the public-private partnership with a new target of $1.7 trillion in spending in the coming weeks.