Trump Remarks On ‘Power’ Of Presidency At DC Event: ‘You Can Do Everything’

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27 Comments

  1. And we have seen what you – a convicted felon with a disgusting criminalized sex fetish, and a petulant child with a disorder that has no name – can do with power.

    That’s why we’re trying really hard to keep you away from that beautiful house that is white.

    Yes, THAT house bubba.

  2. OpenImagination9 on

    Well, the SCOTUS ruling helps him make this statement. Changes need to happen there.

  3. But remember guys!! He absolutely doesn’t want to be a dictator!! Forget what trump himself is saying and move along!! Nothing concerning to see here!!!!

  4. Why is it whenever a man says he can do whatever he wants, it’s always something fucked up?

  5. roughruggedandraw1 on

    This is literally everything they drilled in our elementary school heads that you CAN’T do.

  6. Yes, with the help of 3 SCOTUS he appointed and Mitch McConnel, now Biden is immune if he do “everything” to “enemy of the State” which is him!

  7. juniper_berry_crunch on

    Jimmy Carter likely had a similar thought, except his object of the verb was–is–“for others.”

  8. Yes, this was his idea of what the presidency was before he was elected, and he has now gotten the Supreme Court to back him up. A second term would be the end of representational democracy in the United States and that is the goal. Republicans always went along with the “democracy” thing because they didn’t think they had any choice, now they see the real possibility of ending modern America and installing a theological (to keep the base happy) oligarchy (because it will gain them the most money). “No need to vote again” vs “we won’t go back”. Vote. Or else.

  9. It’s wild that people can listen to that rhetoric and think, “Yeah, that’s the President I want” and even wilder that Republican politicians want that too.

  10. It’s not even what he was asked. She asked him what might be in his power as president to help trans students, and at the mention of “presidential power” his eyes went vacant and he dribbled on his tummy a little.

    Nor is it accurate. He threw so many tantrums in the white house because he couldn’t fire this person, or that person wouldn’t shut up about the constitution. It’s like the fucking white house is his precious.

  11. Sadly the MAGA SCOTUS has enable this.

    Trump wants to be like his hero Putin or his boyfriend, Kim. He wants to rule by fiat.

  12. Trump’s wrong understanding of presidential powers is precisely why he is so dangerous. “You can do everything” might be okay if his instinct was to help people or do good for America. But his dominant instinct is to “grab ’employee by the pussy”, lie, hurt people, build tributes to himself, take everything for himself and insatiable jealousy. Our system of laws exist primarily to shield the public from truly rotten sociopaths like Trump. He won’t even recognize he must follow any laws whatsoever. If you vote for Trump, you are voting to destroy America. This is really not the same as past elections.

  13. The concept and idea behind “checks and balances” is so that you arent supposed to have one person be able to *do everything*.

    If the founding fathers wanted a single person to be able to control the whole government, we wouldnt have left the crown in the first place