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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere's Trump Screaming in Front of a Plane About How He Has Unlimited Power
https://splinternews.com/heres-trump-screaming-in-front-of-a-plane-about-how-he-1836314919Following a week of ignominious policy defeats and not-altogether shocking Cabinet departures, President Donald Trump would like the American public to know that he still thinks he possesses virtually limitless constitutional power.
Speaking about Special Counsel Robert Mueller with reporters outside the White House on Friday, Trump insisted his near-omnipotence derives from a thing called Article IIpresumably meaning the section of the Constitution on presidential authority (given that this is Trump, though, he might also be talking about the second article he read on InfoWars this morning)
Nobody ever mentions Article II, Trump continued. It gives me all of these rights at a level that nobody has ever seen before.
In fact, Article II gives him rights at exactly the same level as every other president for the past 200+ years. But, thats really beside the point here. I would bet all the money in my wallet right now ($17 and a coupon to Cold Stone Creamery) that Trump has no idea whats actually in Article II, which is chock full of very clearly enumerated limits to his power, as well as the basis by which he can be removed from office through impeachment.
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Here's Trump Screaming in Front of a Plane About How He Has Unlimited Power (Original Post)
Demovictory9
Jul 2019
OP
True, the paper Constitution doesn't seem to limit his power. Only Congress...
Beartracks
Jul 2019
#5
sprinkleeninow
(20,255 posts)1. His lips formed like that looks like a hornblower.
Blowin' gaseous hot air.
anarch
(6,535 posts)8. oh, sure. a hornblower. *that's* what it looks like...
(I've been thinking "butthole" all this time....)
Arkansas Granny
(31,530 posts)9. I'm with you. Not only does he have a butthole on two ends of his body,
they both produce the same substance.
msongs
(67,441 posts)2. he does have all the power til somebody comes along to challenge him on that nt
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)5. True, the paper Constitution doesn't seem to limit his power. Only Congress...
... can do that by implementing the words on that paper.
Othetwise, the Constitution is just another Strongly Worded Letter...
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Liberal In Texas
(13,576 posts)3. Pay Wall. n/t
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)4. oh yeah,
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)6. "at a level that nobody has ever seen before"??
Does he think the Constitution is a new document, drafted especially by his loving subjects to give him all his fantasy powers, and hand delivered to his palace by Frederick Douglass?
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safeinOhio
(32,719 posts)7. Section 4 of Article 3.
The best part.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)10. I'm all powerful becuz I have great genes, studied hitler's speeches,
am inbred up the wazoo, and my daddy bought me my button.
spanone
(135,875 posts)11. stupid fuck thinks he's king.