Doesn’t even know the presidential oath he pledged.
You proud now MAGAts? Does this make you proud?
“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.
He had his fingers crossed…
If I recall, he didn’t even place a hand on the Bible.
he didn’t even place a hand on the Bible.
Fact!. For all his claims of being a “Christian”, he couldn’t be bothered.
Probably
A. Pissed it wasn’t one from his merch store
B. Afraid that if he touched a real Bible, he’d burst into flames.
Lies!
His hands are far too tiny for his fingers to cross.And he said …NOT, under his breath
Probably the reason why he didn’t swear on the Bible.
Swearing on the Bible only holds any weight if you’re actually religious. Trump is, at most, non-practicing.
I’m not religious, but a part of me really hopes he just spontaneously combusts one day.
it does say to the best of his ability. so maybe he is technically doing it?
You think he was awake for that part?
Obviously he was being “sarcastic” during that too.
The “best of his ability” part is troubling because I have zero faith in his ability to do anything except turn our country into a cesspool.
Although all it would take is one phone call to release Kilmar, Trump never learned how to use a phone. Checkmate, libtards.
The best of his ability is what’s being dealt here
He was thinking of the concepts of his own constitution, not the current one…
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…”
Thank you for the new word!
Apparently I need to rewatch that movie!
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.
Spot on, but Hippo dung is healthy for the environment. Krasnov is not.
…you sure? I think he’d make decent fertilizer.
Only in the polluted Russian soil, everywhere else, it would be considered a bio-hazard.
Now that’s a testable hypothesis!
*clicks pen*
It would be a mixture of Diet Coke and cheeseburgers leaking out into the healthy soil.
He’s gonna make a great urinal one day. Probably the most popular in the world…
Agent Orange is difficult to remove
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.
As long as there’s some undertone of solid racism in the administration, they won’t care. That’s all this has ever really been about.
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.
Only when it benefits them, however.
They think free speech means no one is allowed to disagree with them. Otherwise they say their right to free speech is being violated.
“Help! I’m being disagreed with! Arrest then for violating my freedom of speech!”
This is exactly how Conservatives think.
“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…”
conservative owned MSMs have done that the whole last year. yes all the msm are currently owned by a conservative partially or fully.
MALONE is the person behind the sudden switch of CNN.
I would describe it as treason; specifically, giving aid and comfort to a domestic enemy (himself).
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!”!
What are you doing then? I see a lot of people chastising others for not doing anything while also not doing anything
I think the fact he said ‘your nation’ instead of ‘our nation’ should answer your question
I’m not American
A mob-led “American Constitutionalist Revolution of 2025” has a nice ring to it
When you say “Allowed” there is no one above him to stop him at this point besides the other branches of government.
Yes, I’m asking why the other branches of government are allowing this
Because they’re all majority
traitorsRepublicans
Thank you for saying this for me.
I’m pretty sure this is a bot account
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.
“to the best of my abilities” is the loophole here
You guys have abilities?
He treats it with all the seriousness that he treats his wedding vows.
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:
- the republican party - all of them
- republican voters
- the democratic party
- no-voters (who didn’t want to “support genocide” and now you have a worse genocide and a bunch of other horrible shit including a shit load of extra war crimes in ukraine for the foreseeable future)
- the media
these and many more can have played a part all at the same time
The media is largely controlled by billionaires and thus republicans by association.
it’s worth calling out all on their own because it surfaces a specific problem… just saying “billionaires ruin everything” isn’t helpful, because it simply shifts blame to a nebulous concept that’s further removed from everyday people
also, following orders is no excuse
That’s valid.
There used to be laws to force news stations to be bipartisan and show both sides.
Copypasta:
The “Fairness Doctrine,” which once required broadcasters to present contrasting viewpoints on controversial issues, was eliminated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1987.
Most of them now seem to follow a fucked-up interpretation of the Fairness Doctrine that requires them to always give the impression that there are no meaningful differences between the parties, which translates into painting Republicans as a perfectly normal, reasonable political party.
Ikr, so hard to blame the republicans and the people who didn’t vote for the shit us is in rn /s
This is what you get for running two genocidaires.
This is what you get for running two genocidaires.
Ahhh there it is… Finally getting honest are we?
What do you mean? The Democrats ran horribly unpopular genocidal candidates and lost. Do you disagree?
Only disagree on how much they suck. There are many more reasons why they lost.
I hope you are not about to say that they lost because “Kamala is a black woman”.
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.
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Yeah, we sit around and laugh about how stupid he is while he ignores the law and constitution to the detriment of the freedom of citizens and immigrants alike.
We are literally that stupid.
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More research is always good, as it can deepen our understanding, but the basic outline of what’s going on is already known. A lot of people just don’t want to believe it, because we’re all stuck on the metaphor that we’re all captains of the ship inside our own heads. You see it in this thread; people want to blame non-voters, as if millions of people all had perfect information and all made decisions based upon it through conscious reasoning. Because they’re just—I dunno—bad people? (Which is a completely bonkers belief when you start to dig into it.)
Actually, neuroscience tells us that consciousness doesn’t really exist, except as an emergent phenomenon of sensory experience. Brain scans show that thoughts, feelings, and decisions occur before we’re consciously aware of them; the conscious mind is basically a rationalization machine, inventing narratives about why we did a thing or felt a certain way, only after the fact. And, it’s notoriously bad at it. (The Misattribution of Arousal is one of the classic examples.) So, if you can affect the way that somebody’s brain works, you can in many ways control what the they think and feel.
And that’s exactly what authoritarian demagogues do.
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Same thing that’s been going on for millenia now. Humans being humans, look around the globe and through history. This is not new and we are not special.
Sucks though.
I’ve concluded that MAGA people are as afraid of diversity, equity, and inclusion as normal people are of fascism. Their brains react to things like social acceptance of transgender people with the same horror to which our brains react to Trump sending people to concentration camps.
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There has been a lot of study done to ‘normal’ Germans after Hitler took over, I expect the result to overlap.
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Yes, very fearful too, but worse even: selfish, hateful and evil.
I’ve been thinking that for nearly ten years now.
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Thankyou for making me feel very old :) Btw, don’t trust anyone with something to sell.
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I can cry too.
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
You swear on it when you take the Oath Of Office.
"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."However,
The Constitution provides no standards for determining whether a President has violated their oath. The fact that other branches interpret the Constitution, and may do do inconsistently with the President, creates difficulties in determining whether the oath has been violated. Just as some Presidents have suggested that the oath may require them to disregard laws when doing so is necessary to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, some lawmakers have argued that the President’s oath requires them to execute all laws, regardless of whether the President believes them to be constitutional. The Supreme Court has not addressed these competing views, and the oath and its surrounding text do not suggest that questions about violations of the oath were intended for judicial resolution. The Court has held that the President is generally immune from civil or criminal liability for official actions taken while in office, which may impede judicial resolution of questions relating to a President’s violation of their oath arising during the President’s tenure. The Constitution’s justiciability requirements are another potential obstacle to resolution in federal court. Impeachment provides a vehicle by which Congress may adjudicate a President’s alleged violation of their oath. Articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson charged the President with being unmindful of the high duties of his office and of his oath of office. Draft articles of impeachment to be used against President Richard Nixon alleged that President Nixon violated his oath, though he resigned before these articles were adopted. Articles of impeachment adopted in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton charged the President with violating his constitutional oath, as did articles of impeachment adopted in both impeachments of President Donald Trump. The political process provides another check on the President’s violation of their oath. James Madison and Alexander Hamilton suggested in various contexts that political accountability might help ensure the President’s fidelity to their office. In his second inaugural speech, George Washington observed that violating his oath would invite the upbraidings of all who are now witnesses of the present solemn ceremony.https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S1-C8-1-5/ALDE_00013936/
Maiq the Truth-Teller.
“to the best of my ability”
Should you wonder how the SC will argue when they need to rule on trump regarding anything done unconstitutional, here’s their out and logic they will use. They will determine that trump acted “to the best of
myhis ability”Can’t wait for the mental gymnastics required from the complicit press to accept that we shouldn’t expect too much from ‘the best of his abilities’, while simultaneously accepting he’s that an infallible king who’s word is law.
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Traitor cunt.
Oh he literally forgot the oath of the presidency? Sounds like a good reason to invoke the 25th amendment.
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.
I don’t know why
Because nobody is both willing and able to impose accountability on him.
