If anyone proves that being physically present does not guarantee being mentally present it is Donald Trump.
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2026
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What law was broken? The Trump Doesn't Like It law?
Is that not the law of the land?
Trump is a mentally ill pedophile.
Trump used an autopen all the time in his first failure of a presidency.
A precedent was set in 2005 that stated the president "need not personally perform the physical act of affixing his signature to a bill" and may direct a subordinate to use an autopen, as long as the president has approved and decided to sign it
Trump is a pedophile.
If biden get arrested. Trump would be next
The Nazis losing round one doesn’t guarantee they’ll lose round two. I worry they’ve learned from their mistakes while the opposition hasn’t.
He is only concerned over illegal actions by Democrats, the poors, and brown people. Everyone else gets congratulations.
It's not an illegal action.
Heck for a good contribution you get a pardon too. Can even not be white for the right amount. Only people he says one nice thing about are people who've fluffed him up. If you've said no once to him you're on his shit list.
Awesome leader there United States, hah he's a LINO anyways, leader in name only. It's really president Miller, the guy who got into politics cause he's too weak to strangle prostitutes.
Made up illegal actions.
...says the guy who doesn't even know what half the people he's pardoned were even in prison for.
Oh? Does he really want to set a legal precedent that a sitting president can undo the pardons of prior presidents?
Perhaps he's on to something! 🤣
Take a moment to consider why he's not concerned about a next president.
His attention span isn't that long.
The guy's been screaming his intent for years now and y'all are still convinced he doesn't mean it.
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Hopefully his life span isn't either.
He doesn't intend for there to be any other sitting presidents after him. At least not before he's dead.
Let's get to that "after"
Getting my popcorn
I thought the POTUS couldn’t break the law? Or does that go out the window once they’re not sitting? Does Trump really want to set THAT precedent?
When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.
I believe Nixon had said that.
Yup. And at that time, we never found out if it was true or not. Since then, Republicans have been tirelessly working to ensure it is. And now we see the fruits of their labor: a Republican president as king.
Often I imagine had Carter elected to move on a Nixon conviction if we would be where we are now. I don’t think we would. Holding power to account doesn’t seem to be an American or Democratic thing to do. When it is, I believe we may have more geopolitical standing in accountability and Democracy. Until we walk the talk we seem to be a cesspool of quacking ducks.
Jimmy Carter pardoned Nixon because Carter was the bigger person and he believed that forgiveness is the most powerful act one can perform against their attacker.
What Carter forgot was, he's supposed to represent the people who voted for him, and the voters weren't, and didn't care to be, the bigger person; they wanted accountability and didn't place such abstract values on the act of forgiveness.
It was a good personal decision to make, but as a presidential decision, I find it lacking.
Obviously not retroactive to before Trump!
Or after... or in-between trump 1 and 2.
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I'm sure the DOJ lawyers will get right on that after they finish burning the remaining epstein files.
Somebody doesn't know how to work the auto pen
He's actually auto-penned a bunch of stuff during both presidencies.
Auto sharpie.
Don't presidents have immunity?
Only if it was an official act. To determine whether an act was official is easy, just refer to this chart:
- Trump: Yes, it was an official act.
- Someone else: No, it wasn't.
Yeah it’s pretty apparent that whoever is in charge gets to decide what’s official and what isn’t. Miller himself even confirmed might makes right.
Trump, the Supreme Court said otherwise regarding the presidency to save your ass, you fucking dipshit.
One month past the Epstein files release date. Still finding media disctractions.
white house breaks the law daily... can we get some arrests there?
Autopen his ass. Sue every still living president and their staff then. This guy is an imbecile.
Everything is a distraction from the Epstein files. Tomorrow it will be some other absurd BS. He wants us to be outraged about this, and forget about that. And it’s working. It’s been working and will continue to because we cannot focus on one thing for more than 2 weeks.
Look at this other crazy shit he said, not the plundering of the nation and trampling of civic rights...
I really wish there was an easy way his daily rants could just be tagged into boxes of actual threats vs his standard blustering bullshit.
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