"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
This is the oath he had to make when he took office.
Right, but was he lying when he said it? He's not sure.
You think he was awake for that part?
Obviously he was being "sarcastic" during that too.
Pressed whether his administration is following the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which says no person "shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law," Trump said he wasn't sure.
"I don't know. It seems – it might say that, but if you're talking about that, then we'd have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials," he said. "We have thousands of people that are some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on Earth."
It might say that? Might? This isn't something that is debatable you hippopotamic dung heap. That's what it fucking says.
"Well yeah it says that but it'd be pretty inconvenient, so..."
Yeah, 3 million trials to catch the thousands of criminals in his own words... or maybe instead of trials first, they could maybe only be rounded up if there is any actual reason to believe they are a criminal in the first place. Then it would only be thousands of trials and all the problems being caused by rounding up 900+ innocent people per 1 criminal, would all of a sudden go away.
You proud now MAGAts? Does this make you proud?
They don't care. All they care about is their in-group is strong and the out-group is punished. They're shitty people.
I saw a guy today with two bumper stickers. One said "Trump" the other said "I love the constitution". I wonder what he would say about this?
Nonsense. He would say nonsense. Because they don't care. They care as much about sounding serious as they do about other people.
I'm sure he'd be very upset if he could read.
They don't really love The Constitution. They only like the first two.
"don't know" ?? isn't that like the first thing in his job description?
Yes. In fact, you couldn't be more correct about the matter.
I would describe his response to the question as fully preposterous.
I would describe it as a dereliction of duty.
If Biden said that the headline would be "Sleepy Dementia Joe Biden Doesn't Remember Oath of Office He Took Three Months Ago". It would be brought up in every segment on every news station for weeks. Trump says it and the news is like "That's kinda weird... Anyways, wonder what Elon is doing..."
WHY IS THIS SHIT ALLOWED! THIS MAN SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED IN ANY RESPONSIBLE POSITION! HE SHOULDN'T BE IN CHARGE OF A LEMONADE STAND MUCH LESS A COUNTRY! WHY DID AMERICA ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN! THE MAN DOESN'T WANT TO DO HIS JOB OF UPHOLDING THE CONSITUTION! THAT'S LIKE A DOCTOR SAYING THEY DON'T KNOW IF THEY HAVE TO ABIDE BY THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH! TRUMP AND ALL OF THE REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS NEED TO BE TRIED FOR TREASON! WHY HAS THIS MADNESS GONE ON SO LONG!
THERE IS NO ADULT WAITING IN THE WINGS TO SWOOP IN AND SAVE YOUR NATION! BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE! THE REASON NO ONE IS STOPPING THIS IS EVERYONE IS BUSY ASKING "WHY IS THIS SHIT ALLOWED!"!
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
-President Trump, just this year.
This what you get, no-vote cowards.
I'm mad at the Democrats for under signing a genocide thus disaffecting their would be voters.
the world is not binary. there are many people who bare part of the responsibility:
these and many more can have played a part all at the same time
Ikr, so hard to blame the republicans and the people who didn't vote for the shit us is in rn /s
He doesn't know what the Declaration of Independence is — something that's taught all through grade and middle school in the U.S. The odds are he has no idea what that pesky Constitution says, nor does he care.
The only time when "love and unity" isn't the correct answer he uses it.
It’s ok, he learned his lesson
-Susan Collins
If this comment doesn't make the case for impeachment idk what does
Upholding the constitution is the most basic part of the job.
If he "doesn't know" if he can do that he is unfit for the position and should be removed immediately. Not even counting all the other violations of the constitution his administration has committed in just the first 100 days alone
Traitor cunt.
Oh he literally forgot the oath of the presidency? Sounds like a good reason to invoke the 25th amendment.
I’ve got it! Let’s wring our hands about this while we continue to do nothing. Wait until it’s too late, and THEN start to fight back. That’ll show ‘em!
He does not. He's above any and all laws. I don't know why, but he his. The Constitution is meaningless to a king.
To be fair, I don't know either. I mean he's supposed to, and he swore an oath to, but if nobody is going to enforce that then must he really? What happens if/when he doesn't?
I always go back to that early coronavirus briefing where a reporter questioned his authority to dictate state government lockdown policies and he just sat there stunned, repeating "when you're the president your authority is total because you have total authority, it's total..." It's been clear for years that this fucking guy never understood the job description, and rather than learning anything from experience, he's having it rewritten. The constitution isn't going to save us from that.
At this point I’m just curious how long this will go on. What would have to tilt for a group of politicians to overhaul his ass and the r’s supporting him?
I believe it will continue until the politicians are scared of an angry mob kicking in their door.
Turns out as long as they have ( R ) next to their name, the president can operate with all the integrity of a five year old trying to get out of cleaning their room
Imagine celebrating a fascist swearing allegiance to a slavemasters pact.
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