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Actual Donald Trump quote from today's press briefing.
Kath2
(3,074 posts)What an ass. He is the poster child for why we need to decide elections on the popular vote.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)"When somebody is a REPUBLICAN president of the United States, your authority is total"
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)shanti
(21,675 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(11,611 posts)I hope we don't have to find out.
paleotn
(17,918 posts)But, I do wonder what all those state rights kooks in Dixie are thinking about all this.
RoadRising
(31 posts)I live in one of them. They still love Trump.
States rights has always been a Southern smokescreen.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,611 posts)Welcome to DU RoadRising
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)Spoken like a true dictator though. At least he is being more open and honest about his real intentions and why the GOP is in lockstep with him rather than opposing a Trump Regime(tm).
I guess many people are either too shocked that a sitting President could be so dangerous to democracy or they prefer to deny it and think that it can't happen here--which is rather common.
We can even see other country's governments using the pandemic to move to an authoritarian-style and suspending rights. These are the kinds of situations that usurping ideologies can seize more power. Trump knows and sees that and has been taking many steps as reports show, here and abroad to cement his Junta in place for the end game.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Then NONE Of them will be singing that tune any longer.
Ohiogal
(32,000 posts)That all presidential candidates be able to pass a 9th grade Civics test.
he is an aberration that won't be repeated.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,470 posts)Narcissism and authoritarianism
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)a fucking KING, a mad king is more like it.
He really has to go!!!!!!!!!!
Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)unblock
(52,240 posts)ZZenith
(4,122 posts)Cha
(297,244 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,616 posts)Trump is going to sabotage himself, and Ill love every second of it.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)gldstwmn
(4,575 posts)mcar
(42,333 posts)spanone
(135,838 posts)Alex4Martinez
(2,193 posts)He tweeted:
"For the first time in history there is a fully signed Presidential Disaster Declaration for all 50 States. We are winning, and will win, the war on the Invisible Enemy!"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/america-has-never-had-50-state-disaster-before/608155/
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/492433-all-50-states-under-disaster-declaration-for-first
https://nypost.com/2020/04/12/trump-has-declared-major-disaster-in-all-50-states-at-once-first-time-in-history/
thecrow
(5,519 posts)Im tired of all this winning.