I have two possibilities for the origins of statements like this:
He probably thinks that's the case -- he's cited Article II of the Constitution, saying it says he can do whatever he wants. (Anyone who's read it knows it says just the opposite.) And Moscow Mitch's Senate has rubber-stamped that idea.
I really can't decide whether he's setting us up for the idea of Trump as President for Life -- which assumes he's much more of a strategic thinker than we have any evidence for -- or whether he's living in a fantasy world built around his own megalomania.
Hmm.
I'll take "megalomania" for four hundred, Alex.
“When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total … and the governors know that,” said Trump. “The authority of the president of the United States is total.”
He probably thinks that's the case -- he's cited Article II of the Constitution, saying it says he can do whatever he wants. (Anyone who's read it knows it says just the opposite.) And Moscow Mitch's Senate has rubber-stamped that idea.
I really can't decide whether he's setting us up for the idea of Trump as President for Life -- which assumes he's much more of a strategic thinker than we have any evidence for -- or whether he's living in a fantasy world built around his own megalomania.
Hmm.
I'll take "megalomania" for four hundred, Alex.
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