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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Considering Pulling U.S. Out of Constitution (Borowitz)
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-considering-pulling-us-out-of-constitution?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20050918&CNDID=27161810&spMailingID=13474120&spUserID=MTMzMTgyODIwMTg3S0&spJobID=1400812243&spReportId=MTQwMDgxMjI0MwS2WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)Calling it maybe the worst deal ever, Donald J. Trump said on Wednesday that he is considering pulling the United States out of the United States Constitution. Ive seen a lot of bad deals in my life, but this Constitution is a total mess, he said. We need to tear it up and start over.
Trump was scathing in his remarks about the two-hundred-and-twenty-nine-year-old document, singling out for special scorn its insistence on three branches of government. The branches thing is maybe the worst part of this deal, he said. The first thing we do when we pull out of the Constitution is get rid of two of those branches. He also called the First Amendment something that really has to go.
No one in his right mind would put something like that in a Constitution, he said. Russia doesnt have it. North Korea doesnt have it. All the best countries dont have it. He stopped short of accusing his predecessor, Barack Obama, of writing the United States Constitution, but said, Hes working hard behind the scenes trying to save it, because he knows that the Constitution is very, very bad for me.
Vowing to replace the Constitution with a new, much, much better Constitution, he acknowledged that there might be some elements of the original document worth salvaging. Were going to keep the Second Amendment, he said, and definitely the Fifth.
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Trump Considering Pulling U.S. Out of Constitution (Borowitz) (Original Post)
Stonepounder
May 2018
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Girard442
(6,066 posts)1. Tell Borowitz to go back to writing absurd stuff.
This fact-based humor is getting me down.
I kid. I think.
Paladin
(28,243 posts)2. I fail to see the humor. (nt)
Gothmog
(144,939 posts)3. I love good satire
C_U_L8R
(44,992 posts)4. Actually, too close to reality....
Republican traitors are drooling for a constitutional convention.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-conservative-plan-to-rewrite-the-constitution-and-yes-its-a-thing