Doesn’t even know the presidential oath he pledged.

You proud now MAGAts? Does this make you proud?

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“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.

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Right, but was he lying when he said it? He’s not sure.

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He had his fingers crossed…

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If I recall, he didn’t even place a hand on the Bible.

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Lies!
His hands are far too tiny for his fingers to cross.

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And he said …NOT, under his breath

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Probably the reason why he didn’t swear on the Bible.

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Swearing on the Bible only holds any weight if you’re actually religious. Trump is, at most, non-practicing.

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it does say to the best of his ability. so maybe he is technically doing it?

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You think he was awake for that part?

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Obviously he was being “sarcastic” during that too.

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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.

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Although all it would take is one phone call to release Kilmar, Trump never learned how to use a phone. Checkmate, libtards.

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He was thinking of the concepts of his own constitution, not the current one…

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The best of his ability is what’s being dealt here

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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.

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“Well yeah it says that but it’d be pretty inconvenient, so…”

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Thank you for the new word!

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Apparently I need to rewatch that movie!

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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.

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Spot on, but Hippo dung is healthy for the environment. Krasnov is not.

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…you sure? I think he’d make decent fertilizer.

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Only in the polluted Russian soil, everywhere else, it would be considered a bio-hazard.

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He’s gonna make a great urinal one day. Probably the most popular in the world…

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Agent Orange is difficult to remove

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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.

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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?

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Nonsense. He would say nonsense. Because they don’t care. They care as much about sounding serious as they do about other people.

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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.

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I’m sure he’d be very upset if he could read.

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They don’t really love The Constitution. They only like the first two.

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Only when it benefits them, however.

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They think free speech means no one is allowed to disagree with them. Otherwise they say their right to free speech is being violated.

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“don’t know” ?? isn’t that like the first thing in his job description?

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Yes. In fact, you couldn’t be more correct about the matter.

I would describe his response to the question as fully preposterous.

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I would describe it as a dereliction of duty.

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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…”

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I would describe it as treason; specifically, giving aid and comfort to a domestic enemy (himself).

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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!

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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!”!

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Someone did try to stop it but he missed.

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What are you doing then? I see a lot of people chastising others for not doing anything while also not doing anything

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I think the fact he said ‘your nation’ instead of ‘our nation’ should answer your question

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A mob-led “American Constitutionalist Revolution of 2025” has a nice ring to it

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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.

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When you say “Allowed” there is no one above him to stop him at this point besides the other branches of government.

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Yes, I’m asking why the other branches of government are allowing this

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Because they’re all majority traitors Republicans

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Thank you for saying this for me.

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I’m pretty sure this is a bot account

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