King Donald I
(The way he sees and projects himself)
The Presidential Oath of
Office:
“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.”
Article 2, Section 1 of the
Constitution requires that before presidents can assume their duties they must
take the oath of office. The completion of this 35-word oath ends one
president's term and begins the next.
From that first day when George
Washington placed his hand on the Bible and recited that oath as the first
president of the brand new United States, the inaugural ceremonies have been an
important symbol of our government's continuity and permanence.
Now, Donald J. Trump, will
take that oath on January 20, 2017 as the 45th President.
Sadly, he constantly
shows his lack of understanding about and perhaps disdain for the document he
will swear to preserve, protect, and defend.
See below examples and his latest statement - one in a long line of other statements about law and order, due process, and
other such constitutional guarantees that he does not like or approve of:
1. Remember
this from the presidential debate that was in response to Hillary
Clinton's rather banal statement that Trump owes Barack Obama an apology for
claiming he wasn't an American citizen for years, Trump responded, with a
string of non sequiturs, that ended with a promise to get a special prosecutor
to investigate Clinton for using a private e-mail server when she was secretary
of state, thus get your political opponents and put them in jail, guilty of a
crime or not. Wow!
2. Then recall this (same article cited above) and from a statement
he made to CNN wherein he doubled down on his claims regarding the guilt of
the Central Park Five – that is the black and Latino teenagers who were
wrongfully convicted of a 1989 rape and imprisoned for years before being
exonerated by DNA evidence. Trump expressed
pride in how politically incorrect it was for him to attack the
settlement they received from the city for depriving them of their freedom for
years. Double wow!!
3. Then this from
the NY Times, the paper Trump hates with a passion, had this about him
and his attacks on the press and the judicial system as possible evidence to
some people of his bracing candor. His comments also sketch out a worldview
that many legal experts say is contemptuous of the First Amendment, the
separation of powers, and the rule of law. Watch in this short TIMES video here or below (if it does load):
Triple wow!!!
Now his latest (from
Politico) that I referred to above had this headlines:
Trump calls for jailing and revoking citizenship of
flag-burners
Of course he was armed with
this phone and twitter account tweeting:
Burning an American flag
should be a crime, President-elect Donald Trump wrote on Twitter (just this
morning) punishable by a forfeiture of U.S. citizenship or a year in jail. His
tweet:
“Nobody should be allowed to
burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss
of citizenship or year in jail!”
Quadruple wow!!!!
Electoral College Delegates: Please
change your vote and do not allow this man anywhere near the White House or in
the Oval Office…
I’m done now. Boy, what a
mess we face with Donald J. Trump, right?
Thanks for coming by.
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