Donald Trump has said that he does not “need international law” and that his power is limited only by his “own morality”.
In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”.
"It’s the only thing that can stop me,” Trump said, adding: “I’m not looking to hurt people.” He went on to concede “I do” in regards to whether his administration needed to adhere to international law, but said: “It depends on what your definition of international law is.”
Trump, who spoke to the newspaper as his administration looks into “a range of options” in attempts of gaining control of Greenland, also emphasized the importance of ownership.
“Ownership is very important,” Trump said, adding: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success. I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do with, you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document.”
What morality?
Exactly.
his “own morality”.
From a pedophile rapist and convicted felon.
“I’m not looking to hurt people.”
“Why do you make me hit you, baby?”
“My own morality” says the child raping baby killer that Epstein called the worst person he’s ever met
Imagine the devil calling you evil
And it not being a compliment
Huh.
Sounds like how kings work.
This is the guy MAGA wanted. They project their personal power fantasies and approve of him acting on his own hatreds, whims and impulses the way they dream of.
I misread that as mortality and got excited for a second
His power is also constrained by that.
Any day now. I hope he dies slowly of explosive diherea.
Same, I was all, “let the joyous constraining begin!”
He’s right. Without the Constitution, there’s nothing holding him back.
That’s the entire problem, our government has ignored the Constitution for so long, they can’t suddenly decide that it’s now relevant and should be adhered to. They made it into a joke decades ago.
The only thing stopping Trump is a no longer relevant piece of paper.
What’s crazy isn’t the headline, it’s his rationale. “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success.” You are going to begin a conflict with allies (every day less so, but still) because of Trump’s personal feelings and psychological needs. Only a dictator and those that enable dictators would be ok with this.
The fact that he thinks this way isn’t the truly bad part - it’s that nobody in the government is willing to oppose his mad whims, no matter how dangerous and stupid.
Point, although they are opposing, but they are opposing by the same rule of law that he is both ignoring and rewriting at the same time. I wonder when they are going to realize they are being stringed along into a manner of opposition that is much easier for the Trump administration to deal with than any actually effective opposition.
I should amend that to “Nobody in the government with the power to do so.”
What morality?
Precisely.
He’s above American law, why international law would restrict him?
I’ll take “Things a dictator says” for 800, Alex.
FYI, the technical term for a mind like his is “crackpot”. Why anyone cares what he says is beyond me.
Because he’s probably the single most powerful man in the world right now. He can send the US military anywhere in the world on a whim.
And there is nobody willing to stop him.
It so damn stupid. This is the same problem we humans have had to deal with over and over again all through history, and we walked right into it AGAIN. American apathy gets a lot of the blame, of course. but so do other country’s governments for continuing to treat the US government as civilized and legitimate when it clearly isn’t.
Well… that’s not reassuring.
Die Völker haben die Regierungen, die sie verdienen.
Los pueblos tienen los gobiernos que se merecen.
