President Trump insisted there are “no limits” to his power when asked in a new interview about his takeaways from the Iran war.
The president was pressed by Axios’s Marc Caputo during an interview about whether he learned there are bounds to his power during the Middle East conflict.
“I haven’t learned that lesson yet,” he replied. “I know there are, but there are no limits. We defeated them totally militarily.”
41 Comments
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 32 pts · 62d
Term limits are a pretty good limit.
His power ends in 2028, and then he's OURS.
paranoia@feddit.dk · 42 pts · 62d
Here's hoping that the law stops the guy who has never been stopped by the law
shittydwarf@piefed.ca · 16 pts · 62d
Surely this time he will be held accountable!
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 62d
No one said surely. Who the fuck is saying surely about that? They sure as shit aren't on Lemmy.
workerONE@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 61d
Surely you don't know for sure
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 59d
It'll more probably be the laws of nature that stop him.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 9 pts · 62d
It’s bad taste to make a former president accountable for their actions.
Remember Nixon and Ford?
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 62d
We won't make him accountable. We'll fucking tear him apart, and his kids will be held accountable.
By that I mean we're going to throw them in a cia black site and use some highly enhanced techniques to get every bit of Intel they have, they stole, and they sold. At which point they would be too much of a security risk to ever release. Keep them in solitary until their execution for treason.
Then do the same for the billionaires that bought his power.
Better yet, strip their citizenship, declare them nation states because of their wealth, then declare war on them, place sanctions on them, etc.
They want to act like countries, treat them like one
Montagge@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 62d
Lol I'll believe it when I see it
Damage@feddit.it · 2 pts · 62d
Not even then tbh
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 62d
dude just eat them and be done with it. cleaner and easier
Damage@feddit.it · 3 pts · 61d
I don't eat trash
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 60d
Use them as fertilizer
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 61d
Lobsters are just the bottom-feeding cockroaches of the sea, when you think about it, and they're super tasty.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 61d
i mean, we could feed them to people we don't like. i get it though. my body is a temple and i am the god to which it is dedicated. i am very picky about what enters its doors.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 61d
I like the way you think.
Goun@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 62d
Context for the outsiders?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 9 pts · 62d
Ford was Nixon’s VP and after it was clear that Nixon would be impeached he resigned and Ford became president and he completely pardoned Nixon.
Ford became VP after Nixon’s original VP Agnew resigned and since he was the speaker of the house Ford got the job.
So Ford was VP and president without being voted in for either role.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 62d
The most basic check on the pardon power would be it cannot be used for anyone who is part of or formerly part of the executive branch. These pardons would have to come from Congress.
At this point the Presidential pardon power should be removed, it has been used for so many corrupt acts it is not funny.
CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 62d
And maybe make some rule about how the same party cannot count as much. Because Republicans.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 62d
Seeing the wealthy people pretend Trump did nothing wrong during Trumps last two impeachments was ridiculous. The Senate is truly an institution that knows no low.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 61d
TL;DR: Gerald Ford is the only president who was not elected by the voters.
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 61d
altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 61d
Life expectancy is a pretty good limit. He thought he was going to somehow end wars and spend years and years in retirement. Let's see what happens. Certainly Jimmy Carter was smarter.
kmartburrito@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 62d
Except for the failure part. It should read there's no limits to his failure. I'm going to go eat my trump steak now and study for my trump university class. Oh wait, those things failed.
The rest of the article is correct, he hasn't learned his lesson yet. Malignant narcissists never do.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 62d
Trump Coin
Trump Phone
Trump NFT
Trump Shoes
Trump Care
Trump Rx
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 62d
Reminds me of when some dingbat on reddit sent me a longass list of companies ("businesses") allegedly started by Trump and I was like, oh, a handy little list of his grifts
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 62d
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 62d
What about his power to hold his bowels? We all know his limits there.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 62d
Can’t open the Straight without begging and paying up
Powerful as a bitch beggin for bitch snacks
AmbientDread@piefed.social · 9 pts · 62d
A legend in his own mind. 😱
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 62d
You surrendered.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 62d
But the emails.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 62d
He said before that it was his own morality that limited him. This statement is just further clarifying the previous one.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 62d
Its maintaining the appearance of morality that was holding him back. Now he isn't even trying.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 62d
That sounds like something out of a horror movie, or perhaps Berserk. What a human being.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 62d
The limit will basically be if the right wing people turn on him because you guys aren't doing shit fuck all. The best that the left can hope for is for people on the right having a "come to Jesus" moment and wanting to stop him cause they will. Lemmy users can post about it when it happens
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 62d
I love this part in Wuxia movies.
MastKalandar@feddit.online · 1 pts · 62d
What's the meaning of probably unconditional surrender by Tehran ??
My native language isn't English. Kindly be patient with me and explain it to me in an eli5 style. Thank you.
Triumph@fedia.io · 3 pts · 62d
"Unconditional surrender" is when there is an end to hostilities, and one side is so completely defeated that they agree to stop fighting without receiving anything in exchange. Then the winning side gets to make all sorts of demands on the loser and they must agree.
The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War One is an example of this. Germany got punished hard in that document, which is widely believed to have set the stage for World War Two some twenty years later.
In this case, though, the US agreed to also end hostilities in Lebanon (including and especially by Israel) and arrange for a whole lot of reparations to be paid. Those are concessions. The winning side in an unconditional surrender doesn't make concessions.
Sassinake@mastodon.social · 0 pts · 62d
@MastKalandar @Sunflier nothing. it means nothing.