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.
Pretty crazy that it’s sworn in the Bible when the state is supposed to be separated from the church
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.
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.
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.
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?
Obviously he was being “sarcastic” during that too.
You think he was awake for that part?
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
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.
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
A mob-led “American Constitutionalist Revolution of 2025” has a nice ring to it
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.
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.
He’s gonna make a great urinal one day. Probably the most popular in the world…
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.
Ikr, so hard to blame the republicans and the people who didn’t vote for the shit us is in rn /s
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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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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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There has been a lot of study done to ‘normal’ Germans after Hitler took over, I expect the result to overlap.
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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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.
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Yes, very fearful too, but worse even: selfish, hateful and evil.
I can cry too.
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.
At this point I’m just curious how long this will go on. What would have to tilt for a group of politicians to overhaul his ass and the r’s supporting him?
I believe it will continue until the politicians are scared of an angry mob kicking in their door.
Food shortages will do it.
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Get. Him Out!
What does it take to get this guy out of office? Genuine question. We impeached this guy like twice but it didn’t go through
A coffin is the only way. It’ll probably be easier to secede.
A democrat majority in congress
Supermajority probably
Super-duper majority, gotta survive the Democrat-defectors
And if your R’s know that, they will never allow it to happen.
“I don’t know” the defense of criminals and toddlers.
Worked for Ronald Reagan, works for Trump, I guess.
“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 don’t think so” is what he meant
he cant swear the truth, because he wants to violate it.
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.
