Trump says today: "I have the right to do whatever I want as president."

[DesertRat]

TRUMP: "Then I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president."

(Article 2 does not in fact empower the president to do whatever they want.)

Link to tweet

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

1. I watched it omg worse than a rally

Almost like a mass brain washing lie after lie, insults to countries and elected people.

[Zoonart]

2. Does anyone other than myself...

think that this speech, in it's entirety, is alarming. He is telling his moral cypher army that he can do anything he wants.
They are going to believe him. He also flashed a white power hand gesture while talking about AOC. He repeats it throughout. He is out of control. WHEN CAN WE REMOVE HIM?

[DesertRat]

5. It's very alarming

And this was in front of a convention of conservative teens.
I posted more here:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212306726

[dawg day]

3. "An Article 2" ? "I have an Article 2?"

Full-on fascist (but illiterate) mode.

His cultists hear this and chortle, because they want An Article 2 too.

[dalton99a]

4. And not a damn word from Congress to contradict him

[Fullduplexxx]

9. And not a damn word from nancy about impeaching him

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Poster child for a high inheritence tax

[Moostache]

7. Daily plea to universe renewed (again)...

Please strike him down with a cardiac event that kills him and removes his stain forever.
Just let me see it so I can pop the champagne tonight...

[DesertRat]

21. I pray that his staff feed him all the cheeseburgers and cake his heart desires

Then let cholesterol do it's job...

[ProudMNDemocrat]

8. When Caesar declared himself Supreme RULER

The Senate did him in.

Not going to happen with this Senate and these Republicans.

Donnie DICKtator

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. correction: Li'l Donnie noDICKtator

[procon]

11. He just described himself as the American Dictator.

This should be headline news.

Americans should be in the streets demanding his immediate impeachment.

I fanticize. The insidious shift in power is well underway. Laws are being undone and new ones added by executive order and not by any legislative action. Vital agencies are being crippled by funding cuts, stripped of qualified experts and helmed by some temp; one of those ass kissing Trump cronies who answer to him alone. The Justice dept is a wholly owned Trump subsidiary, kowtowing to Trump's capricious whims.

Trump is right, he really can do whatever he wants as president.

[FirstLight]

22. right...?

I'm beyond disgusted at the apathy from the general population as well as the INEPTITUDE from our elected officials to STOP this man before he does more damage...

we are screwn, plain & simple.

[Takket]

12. The problem isn't that he thinks that but is that no one will

Stop him when he uses his fake powers.

[RainCaster]

13. The only ones with the balls to stop him is the SCOTUS

and they have become his bitch lately, too.

[eShirl]

14. "C+ Augustus" is already taken...

how about "Fat Caligula?"

[Efilroft Sul]

15. I'm still going to go with Sulla Felix.

He was a wealthy layabout who hung out with the disreputable types of high and low society, had sexual tastes on the youngish side, found out that hawking the conservative Optimate line of flim-flam was the way to wheedle into the corridors of power, became dictator after defeating the anointed and inevitable opponent for consul, and started to conduct proscriptions that liquidated opposition in the Senate and patrician classes and made everybody too scared to stop him.

Biggest difference between the two is that Sulla didn't have bone spurs and served his nation. Plus, he voluntarily resigned from power. But otherwise, Trump reminds me of Sulla more than anybody else from the old Republic.

[Aristus]

16. Sulla did more than just serve his country.

He was awarded the Grass Crown, which is more or less the equivalent of receiving the Medal of Honor twice.

[Efilroft Sul]

18. You're absolutely correct. He did have courage.

Still, he was a thoroughly deplorable (hmm...) Roman.

[Aristus]

19. Yeah, the first Roman general to march on Rome itself.

It gave Julius Caesar a few ideas...

[Efilroft Sul]

20. And ironically, Julius Caesar was marked for death by Sulla.

[Vinca]

17. I take it the Turning Point audience doesn't understand who ultimately pays the tariffs.