Limits on presidential power!

Lionfish said:
I will take that as your Google finger is broken AND the phone banks are slow.
BTW, I am not in Trumps cabinet so my position is none of your business.
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You may not know it, but the PP actually said it, the only limit on his powers...

In a NYT interview last week..

“Are there any limits on your global powers?” — as asked by The New York Times in a wide-ranging interview.
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That prompted his response:


“Yeah, there is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
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Maybe the PP's google finger is broken?
 
Jarod said:
Are there any limits on Trumps power other than his own morality?
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Trump’s Right-Wing Socialism
Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP / Getty

The president is embodying the type of big government that right-wing politicians and thinkers have been warning about for a century.

In his second term, the president is embracing perhaps the most sweeping expansion of federal power since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt: bullying state governments, using military force if necessary; telling private institutions, including media corporations and universities, how to operate; extorting law firms into doing free work for the government; and, in the latest escalation, taking a stake in the tech firm Intel.

For decades, the American right and the Republican Party held themselves up as the defenders of individual citizens, corporations, and state and local governments against intrusive control from Washington. But where Ronald Reagan joked that the nine most terrifying words in the English language were I’m from the government, and I’m here to help, Trump’s credo is “I’m from the government, and I’m here to take over.” The debate in America is no longer about whether socialism can gain a foothold. It’s whether the socialism that dominates will be progressive or right-wing.

Big Government Republicans
 
goat said:
Trump’s Right-Wing Socialism
Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP / Getty

The president is embodying the type of big government that right-wing politicians and thinkers have been warning about for a century.

In his second term, the president is embracing perhaps the most sweeping expansion of federal power since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt: bullying state governments, using military force if necessary; telling private institutions, including media corporations and universities, how to operate; extorting law firms into doing free work for the government; and, in the latest escalation, taking a stake in the tech firm Intel.

For decades, the American right and the Republican Party held themselves up as the defenders of individual citizens, corporations, and state and local governments against intrusive control from Washington. But where Ronald Reagan joked that the nine most terrifying words in the English language were I’m from the government, and I’m here to help, Trump’s credo is “I’m from the government, and I’m here to take over.” The debate in America is no longer about whether socialism can gain a foothold. It’s whether the socialism that dominates will be progressive or right-wing.

Big Government Republicans
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Your last sentence is a very astute observation. Folks should let that sink in.
 
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