Doesn’t even know the presidential oath he pledged.
You proud now MAGAts? Does this make you proud?
“I do solemnly swear 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.”
The oath of office has one stipulation. Just one.
He’s taken it twice. He’s such an evil man.
“to the best of my ability” is a pretty big loophole for Trump, who has no ability.
A lot of Trumpers here decorate their cars with “We the people…” in Constitution-style script. I wonder how much of it he needs to violate for them to see the disconnect.
Take their guns away and let’s see what the bobble heads do.
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.
He has no idea what he is doing. Never has.
No, no he knows what he’s doing. He’s just not doing anything for anyone else other than himself and his ilk.
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
Oh he literally forgot the oath of the presidency? Sounds like a good reason to invoke the 25th amendment.
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?
Well, normally, impeachment… now? hmm
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!”!
Someone did try to stop it but he missed.
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
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 dont even trust the voting system. There has been many attempt at manipulating the results. Maybe America didnt allow this.
Doesnt matter though. This guy is awful and dangerous as president.
You shouldn’t, they stole the election, here are the receipts.
https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
A mob-led “American Constitutionalist Revolution of 2025” has a nice ring to it
I’m pretty sure this is a bot account
Trump probably had his fingers crossed while he took the oath.
He didn’t bother putting his hand on the Bible. Not that I care, but you’d think his “omg christian patriot doggy mommy” followers would say something.
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.
They don’t really love The Constitution. They only like the first two.
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.
Only when it benefits them, however.
I’m sure he’d be very upset if he could read.
“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.
Pretty crazy that it’s sworn in the Bible when the state is supposed to be separated from the church
I’m pretty sure each person chooses a document/book to swear on that is core to them. So most people in the US would choose the Bible because they identify as Christian, but if a Jewish person or Muslim person was sworn in they could choose the Torah or Quran. And a non-religuous person could choose anything that they could convinceably argue is important/core to their values.
Disclaimer: I did no research right now to confirm this but that’s what I remember.
I remember one politician being sworn in with a stack of comics.
I did not know this … it is both awesome and interesting.
I think the act of being sworn in should also be on one’s passport, give it more weight that if you break the oath you lose the citizenship.
The separation of church and state is exactly why the president can be sworn in on a bible. Barring a member of office from swearing in on a religious text would specifically violate their first amendment right to practice religion. Importantly, the state doesn’t require them to use a bible, and it also doesn’t prevent them from doing so.
That’s the whole point of separation of church and state. If the state required a religious text, that would be establishing a national religion. And if the state prevented it, that would be infringing on peoples’ right to practice religion.
It doesn’t need to be a religious text at all. It simply needs to be something that is important to the person being sworn in. Technically, you could be sworn in on a copy of the constitution itself, or some handwritten letters from your mother, or a stack of hentai comics.
Technically it’s a performative ritual and serves no real purpose. The swearing of the oath is the only important bit and should be enough. You humans and your weird attachment to symbols and artifacts. :)
Coming from a place where we practice laïcity, it’s a weird way to separate the State and religion to say that people can swear allegiance on a religious book.
It’s actually not mandatory that a Bible, or any religious text be used for swearing in a president. There’s nothing stating that a Jewish president couldn’t use the Torah or a Muslim president couldn’t use the Koran. We’ve just only had Christian presidents so far, though not all of them have used bibles for the ceremony.
Separation from church and state only pretty much states that congress can make no laws favoring one religion over another or make any laws prohibiting the practice of one’s religion. To prohibit a president from swearing in on a religious text of their choice would, in and of itself, be a first amendment violation. Saying they have to, would also be a violation. The strict separation of church from the state, freedom from religion or the “wall of separation,” is something people have argued for, but isn’t actually laid out in the constitution.
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
it does say to the best of his ability. so maybe he is technically doing it?
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.
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…
Trump has the logic of a five year old.
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.
Agent Orange is difficult to remove
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…
You just gotta love it that this shit stain is supported by constitution lovers
“lovers”
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 will all the seriousness that he treats his wedding vows.
This what you get, no-vote cowards.
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”.
Obviously that is a larger factor for mainstream American acceptance than distant genocide. Most voters have no concept of political theory or world events.
Virtually nobody cared about her being black or a woman.
Her policies were horrible period.
Most importantly: She got nominated by the DNC because of her horrible policies. Not despite of them.
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
