Asked if he has to uphold the Constitution as commander-in-chief, the president responded, “I don’t know.”
Apparently Donald Trump does not take his Inauguration oath to uphold the Constitution as a meaningful process that is to be taken seriously.
After all. Trump views himself a King of America.
President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired today on NBC that he doesn’t know if he has to uphold the US Constitution as president, but said his administration will “obviously follow” what the Supreme Court decides.
The answer came during an exchange on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” when host Kristen Welker asked the president if citizens and noncitizens deserve due process in legal proceedings. The president initially responded, “I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.”
Pressed further by Welker, who cited the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause, the president said he was elected to deal with immigration and the “courts are holding me from doing it.”
“I don’t know. 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. What you said is not what I heard the Supreme Court said. They have a different interpretation,” the president said.
Trump has expressed extreme frustration during the first few months of his second term as federal courts — including the nation’s highest court — have slowed his rapid deportation push amid legal challenges over whether migrants are being afforded due process.
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