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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSherrilyn Ifill says what most people are realizing: Utterly unfit.
Sherrilyn Ifill
@sifill.bsky.social
Utterly unfit.
May 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
@sifill.bsky.social
Utterly unfit.
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com
2h
WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree?
TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.
WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?
TRUMP: I don't know
May 4, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Sherrilyn Ifill says what most people are realizing: Utterly unfit. (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
May 4
OP
"My lawyers plan to defend me as incompetent after all the shit comes crashing down"
struggle4progress
May 4
#4
USA Today: Trump says 'I don't know' when asked if he must uphold the Constitution
Dennis Donovan
May 4
#6
Welker: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution as president? Trump: I don't know.
Dennis Donovan
May 4
#7
crazylikafox
(2,863 posts)1. Impeach
SheltieLover
(68,270 posts)2. Impeach right now!

newdeal2
(2,586 posts)3. "Uphold the constitution? I don't know anything about it.
You're telling me about it for the first time."
Classic Trump BS tell. Don't fall for it.
struggle4progress
(123,209 posts)4. "My lawyers plan to defend me as incompetent after all the shit comes crashing down"
MiHale
(11,667 posts)5. That right there is proof he doesn't know his job...
He should be excused from office. On that statement alone he violates his oath.
Dennis Donovan
(31,054 posts)6. USA Today: Trump says 'I don't know' when asked if he must uphold the Constitution
USA Today - Trump says 'I don't know' when asked if he must uphold the Constitution
Joey Garrison
USA TODAY
May 4, 2025 12:45 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump said he does not know whether he's required to uphold the U.S. Constitution as president in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" as he defended his administration's aggressive actions to remove people who are in the country illegally.
Trump's comments follow the Supreme Court in April saying the Trump administration must "facilitate" the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland sheet metal worker and father of three who was wrongfully deported to an El Salvador prison without receiving a trial.
"I don't know," Trump said when asked by host Kristen Welker whether he needs to uphold the Constitution. "I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said."
The Trump administration has said it doesn't need to request Abrego Garcia's release from El Salvador, where he's originally from, because of how the court worded its decision. Democrats and other critics have argued that such statements show the administration is refusing to obey the nation's highest court.
/snip
Joey Garrison
USA TODAY
May 4, 2025 12:45 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON ‒ President Donald Trump said he does not know whether he's required to uphold the U.S. Constitution as president in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" as he defended his administration's aggressive actions to remove people who are in the country illegally.
Trump's comments follow the Supreme Court in April saying the Trump administration must "facilitate" the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland sheet metal worker and father of three who was wrongfully deported to an El Salvador prison without receiving a trial.
"I don't know," Trump said when asked by host Kristen Welker whether he needs to uphold the Constitution. "I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said."
The Trump administration has said it doesn't need to request Abrego Garcia's release from El Salvador, where he's originally from, because of how the court worded its decision. Democrats and other critics have argued that such statements show the administration is refusing to obey the nation's highest court.
/snip
Dennis Donovan
(31,054 posts)7. Welker: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution as president? Trump: I don't know.
Justin Baragona
@justinbaragona.bsky.social
Kristen Welker: Do you agree that non-citizens and citizens should receive due process?
Trump: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer.
Welker: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution as president?
Trump: I don't know.


May 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
@justinbaragona.bsky.social
Kristen Welker: Do you agree that non-citizens and citizens should receive due process?
Trump: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer.
Welker: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution as president?
Trump: I don't know.


May 4, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Cherokee100
(394 posts)8. When do you
When do you think, Putin will be through with 'Benedict donald'? It can't be much longer. I think the 'draft dogger' has done pretty much everything, he has been told to do. If Putin completely destroys the U.S. He will loose a lot of money. Just my opinion..