Trump Knows He Can Do Whatever He Wants

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

The Daily Beast editorial: The guardrails that were meant to keep executive power in check are all gone now - and President Donald Trump knows it.

Posted by censored at 02:32 PM | 63 COMMENTS | permalink

OPINION: The New Abnormal hosts say the president knows that no one's stopping him now. https://t.co/TxnJbH9st0
" The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 18, 2025

Comments

Unbridled Trump must be what America wants, since this is what we voted for.

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-18 10:50 AM

He always has... this is just him grabbing America by the P and fingering hard.

Ask any of his many victims:

19thnews.org

Or you could just ax' Ukraine and Nato.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-18 10:58 AM

He can only do whatever the People allow him to do.

And apparently the American People want a criminally negligent convicted felon who ignores and or refuses to obey the law as their leader.

The American People are a fickle people and they are forgetful and they change their minds a lot.. but for now.. like Censored said, this is apparently what Americans voted for.

ARE YOU NOT YET ENTERTAINED?

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-18 11:12 AM

Or you could just ax' Ukraine and Nato.

#2 | POSTED BY CORKY

King Trumpy done took an maga ax to Ukraine. I imagine NATO is next on the maga chopping block.

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-18 11:24 AM

Dems prep for Trump legal meltdown

www.axios.com

Likely making sure there are plenty of body bags.

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-18 11:24 AM

"And two, even if it were to make it up to the Supreme Court, they've already given him the powers of a king and everyone around him just sits around at his feet waiting on a pardon."

It really is going to come down to the Supreme Court:

MAGA loyalists, particularly Vice President J.D. Vance, have begun to suggest they will not abide by the rule of law, but before Trump and Vance took office, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts called out Vance's hints that he would be willing to defy the rulings of federal courts as "dangerous suggestions" that "must be soundly rejected."

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

Will 2 of the 5 conservatives on the Court, 3 of whom were appointed by Trump, do the right thing and side with the 3 liberals? Roberts and ACB would be the 2 most likely to be swayed, but will they be?

#6 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-18 11:27 AM

They offered Zelenski doodley squat for their mineral rights... and actually slid a contract over to him to sign that minute.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-18 11:29 AM

Re 5

FTA: "The real question now is: How much will this administration comply with court orders."

The more Trumpy ignores the Law and undermines our democratic institutions the deeper the doo doo we will find ourselves in.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-18 11:35 AM

"Bernie Sanders takes down Elon Musk and Donald Trump's "oligarchy" in intense speech

1 hour ago

The senator for Vermont took to the Senate floor to expose the destruction of what remains of America's welfare state under Donald Trump and Elon Musk's stewardship"

www.youtube.com

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-18 11:45 AM

I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose a vote in the Supreme Court...
--El Rey Dotardo II

#10 | Posted by catdog at 2025-02-18 02:47 PM

Let's see him dodge another "bullet"

#11 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-18 02:52 PM

Hi Corky. Thanks for posting the youtube link.

#12 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-18 03:27 PM

President Plane Crash is golfing again today.

trumpgolftrack.com

#13 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-18 03:38 PM

William Jennings Bryant delivered his famous "Cross of Gold" speech on 9 Jul 1896: "I come to speak to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty: the cause of humanity."

#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-18 03:38 PM

Hi Reinheitsgebot. Of course Trumpf is golfing while Ukraine is being carved up like a turkey, American civil servants are being unemployed at a record pace, TB and avian flu are spreading in the US, and DOGE cultists are having a field day with our private information.

#15 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-02-18 03:43 PM

Stinky's take on working remotely.

"There's a whole big, oh, you can work from home. Nobody's going to work from a home. They're going to be going out. They're going to play tennis. They're going to play golf. They're going to do a lot of things. They're not working."

" President Trump, quoted by CNN, before heading out to play golf in Florida..

#16 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-18 03:47 PM

FTA: "The real question now is: How much will this administration comply with court orders."

The more Trumpy ignores the Law and undermines our democratic institutions the deeper the doo doo we will find ourselves in.
- donnerbot

What court order is Trump ignoring?

#17 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-18 03:53 PM

www.nytimes.com

White House Failed to Comply With Court Order, Judge Rules
The federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration had failed to comply with his order unfreezing billions of dollars in federal grants.

#18 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-02-18 03:57 PM

What court order is Trump ignoring?
#17 | Posted by oneironaut

Pennsylvania governor sues over Trump administration spending freezes on grants and loans

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) " Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Thursday sued agencies under President Donald Trump, saying they are illegally and unconstitutionally withholding billions in federal aid from the state that had already been approved by Congress.

Shapiro, a Democrat, filed the lawsuit despite the fact that federal courts have repeatedly rejected the Trump administration's sweeping pause on federal funding, and Shapiro's lawyers suggest that the Trump administration is continuing to ignore court orders to restore access to the suspended money.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Philadelphia, calls actions by the federal agencies "flagrantly lawless" and said the agencies have no legal authority to unilaterally refuse to spend congressionally appropriated money over a policy disagreement.

Further, the agencies have provided no plausible explanation for the suspension, Shapiro's lawyers said.

Shapiro, his agencies and members of Congress have tried to try to fully restore access to the money, the lawsuit said.

"Despite that work, and despite two temporary restraining orders requiring federal agencies to restore access to suspended funds, federal agencies continue to deny Pennsylvania agencies funding that they are entitled to receive," the lawsuit said.

apnews.com

#19 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-18 03:58 PM

get off twitter, oneironaut. it's rotting your sense of reality.

#20 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-02-18 04:00 PM

since this is what we voted for.

#1 | Posted by censored

Speak for yourself.

#21 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2025-02-18 04:02 PM

Gal.

I always admire your dedication to correcting the trolls. You always keep a level head about it.

There's a lot of posters on here who have proven to be nothing more than trolls and I've resorted to simply mocking and ridiculing them.

You make me want to be better.

#22 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-18 04:08 PM

The American government is an honor system. MAGA has no honor.

#23 | Posted by TFDNihilist at 2025-02-18 04:10 PM

#22 | Posted by ClownShack

Hey Clown, you do what I can't, which is to show up here most days. If I did that, the trolls would get to me too.

#24 | Posted by Gal_Tuesday at 2025-02-18 04:12 PM

#20 | Posted by Alexandrite: "get off twitter, oneironaut. it's rotting your sense of reality."

What sense of reality?

#25 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-02-18 04:28 PM

What sense of reality?

#25 | Posted by Yodagirl at 2025-02-18 04:28 PM | Reply

You got me there.

#26 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-02-18 04:31 PM

"Bernie Sanders takes down Elon Musk and Donald Trump's "oligarchy" in intense speech

That was a fantastic speech. Bernie, as always, speaks the truth.

Unfortunately it won't change a thing.

Congressional Republicans fear Musk's retribution and won't lift a finger to protect America.

The Supreme Court was seated in order to hand Trump (Musk) complete control over this country.

The media have been silenced.

#27 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-18 04:32 PM

Ya'll stop making fun of 1Nut!

He's only got the 1 nut, ya know.

He gave the other one to Peter Theil, who keeps it in a micro-bottle.

#28 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-18 05:25 PM

Marv Albert voice:

Trump again, YES!

a spectacular move by Donald Trump!

Trump, FOR THE WIN! YES!

Keep flailing my libs

#29 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-02-18 06:26 PM

Can the------------- destroy the economy again?

Marv Albert: YES!!!!!

#30 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-02-18 06:28 PM

Keep flailing my libs

#29 | Posted by THEBULL

Keep kissing the a*& of someone who wouldn't p(*& on you if you were on fire, dumbs&^%.

#31 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-18 06:35 PM

Keep kissing the a*& of someone who wouldn't p(*& on you if you were on fire, dumbs&^%.

#31 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-18 06:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

Ashley Biden is waiting on line 1...

#32 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-18 07:38 PM

Your mom's dried up old ---- is waiting for you to come out of the basement.

#33 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-18 07:59 PM

Your mom's dried up old ---- is waiting for you to come out of the basement.

#33 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-18 07:59 PM | Reply | Flag:

Your mom dropped you with afterbirth on a hot sidewalk. You have no room to talk, tadpole.

#34 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-18 08:07 PM

Legallydead found herself in a -------- exiting a cruz ship and thinks they have room to talk about others.

#35 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-18 08:08 PM

Legallygiveshead's mom played the donkey game and lost. She started at the wrong end.... by the exit....

#36 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-18 08:12 PM

@#32,34-36

Have a directive to work hard this evening?

#37 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-18 08:16 PM

Have a directive to work hard this evening?

#37 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-18 08:16 PM | Reply | Flag:

No. Did your mom lose you at the market when you were a child?

#38 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-18 08:19 PM

#39 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-18 08:20 PM

Your mom's dried up old ---- is waiting for you to come out of the basement.

Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-18 07:59 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by censored

Look at ole censord.. you look so cute....

#40 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-18 08:39 PM

Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-18 07:59 PM | Reply | Flagged newsworthy by censored

Look at ole censord.. you look so cute....

#40 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-18 08:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

I saved that one for you

#41 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-18 08:41 PM

Censored is an idiot. She want's to be in control of the Jewish revolution while cheering death of Gaza inhabitants. You go gurl!

#42 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-02-18 08:43 PM

What we have all learned from the dems, and their politicians, thrugh their ongoing protests of Trump and his DOGE operation, is that the dems are for/prefer maintaining the status quo, i.e. maintaining, the bloated government bureaucracies, and the Fraud, Waste and Abuse of our tax dollars.

Thank you dems more making yourselves more unelectable in four years as the American public is paying attention [why Trump's poll numbers are rising]. Again, thank you, and keep up trying to block and/or negate the DOGE auditing.

#43 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-02-18 08:56 PM

The blowback and revolution is coming. It's just a matter of when.

#44 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-02-18 09:15 PM

#43

If that Red Herring is what you learned, you aren't very good at learning.

No one wants fraud, but what's worse is having a Fraud do the investigation... an unvetted by Congress fraud who currently makes 8 million dollars a day from out of our pockets in Gov contracts and grants... so not an impartial investigator.

Who hires criminal, racist kids to 'investigate' things they know nothing about rather than using actual AUDITORS.

Also it doesn't help that he gives Nazi salutes to actual Nazis at their big meeting in Germany.

This AUDIT could have been done legally and sanely by EXPERTS vetted by Congress, but NOOOOOO..... your Dear Leader has to do a shock and awe smash and grab instead to sooth his amazing large ego.

#45 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-18 09:27 PM

This AUDIT could have been done legally and sanely by EXPERTS vetted by Congress, but NOOOOOO.....
#45 | Posted by Corky

Americans everywhere know your method doesn't work.

Obama even said he would do something about waste, nothing happened.

While I think Musk should shut up, I certainly will say your fantasies of EXPERTS and COMMISSIONS are just delaying bs tactics.

Not surprised you would fall for it.

#46 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-18 09:37 PM

The blowback and revolution is coming. It's just a matter of when.
#44 | Posted by a_monson

Lol sure, you sound like a magat.

#47 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-18 09:38 PM

= Americans everywhere know your method doesn't work.

And here I thought you couldn't sound more like an idiot if you tried... but you surpass expectations.

My method would be legal, not consisting of illegal EOs.

If you actually knew anything about tech companies, you would know that what Musk is doing is what VC and other buyers of tech companies do; go in and break stuff and sort out the damage later.

Our Gov is NOT a Corporation to be broken down and rebuilt on the fly, it is a Gov of, by, and for the People with Laws that apply to how it is run.

Of course, your lack of comprehension of most any subject is actually a stellar object in and of itself.

#48 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-18 09:51 PM

Armageddon - Silver Tightrope (1975)
www.youtube.com

Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
I close my eyes to worldly skies
I leave behind the day
And deep within me, I shall begin
To chase my thoughts away

As loved ones hold me to their sides
Their strength flows into me
To cast me out of sorrow's blindness
Into eternity

I thought I heard them softly calling
The voices of the spheres
As light years flash forever falling
Away from waking fears

I reach out, try to touch the passing
Of beings bathed in light
But they just smile, their eyes not asking
To see beyond their sight

Ooh silver tightrope
Ooh silver tightrope
Ooh silver tightrope

I thought I saw the candle-bearers
On their way to the beyond
Beckon to me from the future
To come and join the throng

I stepped upon the silver tightrope
Balancing beliefs
And wings unfurling with a new hope
I left behind my griefs
...

#49 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-18 09:52 PM

@#48 ... Our Gov is NOT a Corporation to be broken down and rebuilt on the fly, it is a Gov of, by, and for the People with Laws that apply to how it is run. ...

Well, yeah.

And, btw, well-stated. thx.

Pres Trump seems to be wanting to turn American Excellence into profit for the oligarchy.

#50 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-18 09:55 PM

Pres Trump seems to be wanting to turn American Excellence into profit for the oligarchy.
#50 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Present you evidence of him "wanting"? I am listening.

#51 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-18 10:11 PM

My method would be legal, not consisting of illegal EOs.

Who has ruled Trump's EO's are illegal? Because you read it on Reddit?

#52 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-18 10:12 PM

Buyouts restored.
www.usatoday.com

US judge will not block Elon Musk from firing federal workers, accessing data
www.reuters.com

Seems to me Obama judges approve of Trumps EO's. I am not saying what Trump is doing is good, but clearly you don't know whats happening.

#53 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-02-18 10:14 PM

Who has ruled Trump's EO's are illegal?

Lewzer quotes:

"Why Is @BarackObama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?"

"The country wasn't based on executive orders,"

"Right now, Obama goes around signing executive orders. He can't even get along with the Democrats, and he goes around signing all these executive orders. It's a basic disaster. You can't do it."

#54 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-18 10:14 PM

Ashley Biden is waiting on line 1...

#32 | Posted by lfthndthrds

The trained monkey moron chirps his irrelevant reply.

#55 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-19 09:53 AM

#43 | Posted by MSgt

Ok, genuine question here.

Are you stupid? Or just dishonest?

#56 | Posted by jpw at 2025-02-19 09:56 AM

MSG gets all their news from Facebook Memes.

They're very stupid and quite dishonest about it all.

#57 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-19 05:54 PM

Unbridled Trump must be what America wants, since this is what we voted for.

#1 | Posted by censored

Sort of. This is what our election machine spit out as a result after years of republican rigging and cheating.

#58 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-02-19 05:56 PM

>Unbridled Trump must be what America wants, since this is what we voted for.
>#1 | Posted by censored

Sort of. This is what our election machine spit out as a result after years of republican rigging and cheating.
#58 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

Also, a significant portion of Dems/Libs are idiots. As seen in 2000/2016 gifts of the White House by the Greens to the GOP, and the 8 million 2020 Biden supporters who stayed at home in 2024 because of egg prices/FrEE PaLEesTIne!/other associated nonsense. Stupid is as stupid does, and we will all pay the price for it.

#59 | Posted by censored at 2025-02-19 06:04 PM

#59 | Posted by censored

If you weren't smart enough to vote for ANYONE who ran against trump then you're a moron. Thanks to republicans strangling public schools for a few generations, there's enough morons to overthrow democracy.

#60 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-02-19 06:51 PM

The list I saw of billionaires in wump's crazy camp only had around 15 names but the US has 750+ billionaires. The amount of money they could hope to gain from tax cuts would not touch the economic damage caused by maggotty vandalism. How can all the rich tolerate this? What about the vast corporate powers which are losing money due to chaos? How much could be lost if severe social disruption takes place, all of it? Who benefits from that?

#61 | Posted by grumpy_too at 2025-02-20 01:31 AM

clearly you don't know whats happening.

#53 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

Like you do? You literally just asked this question on this very thread:

...

What court order is Trump ignoring?

#17 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

#62 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-02-20 09:42 AM

Seeing Censored in distress is Delicious.

Whine,Baby,Whine.

Go see Israel and Die.

#63 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-02-20 11:27 AM

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