Does the Oath of Office give Trump an out?

[OnlinePoker]

It says he will "to the best of his ability" preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. Could he just run roughshod over the constitution and then say, "I'm doing my best"?

[blm]

1. It can be shown that his 'best' coincides with Putin's goals.

[Newest Reality]

2. hehehe.

No, but the list of phrases he has used, that seem like confusion, are excuses he and his RW propaganda buddies can cherry pick later to make him look like a great leader in retrospect, no matter how this turns out. Just look at the stock of for/against, did/didn't, etc.

You can count on seeing that and if you look at how General Trump has played it, it will work to some degree. He knows what he is doing and gets a lot of mileage with that expert con man mouth. I only wonder if he has to think about any of it or if it just comes naturally from decades of working with the mob and being a professional liar. His facade has been crafted well enough to get him where he is and it will be adjusted in any way necessary to adapt to the situation while the GOP and RW Pravda play along in the Trump reality tv show.

It will all be disastrous for us, however and as an example, look at his budgets and how he has cut everything that is beneficial or necessary to humans while doing everything possible to shore up the military, the fossil fuel industry, etc. That looks like the projection of a deep, dangerous thanos instinct, which means death. Trump is death and perhaps that's how he deals with his distorted persona; he projects it out on the world and that's the last person you want in the office of President. The last.

[pwb]

3. This is his best. Terrible.

Our president is a pig.

[klook]

4. Bless his heart.

His "best" just happens to be worse than the worst of any other president in my long lifetime.


- poster from despair.com

But he's tryin' his little heart out! Or so he keeps telling us, when he's not blaming everybody else in sight.

Maybe if he'd participate a little more, he could earn a participation trophy.

[shockey80]

5. The oath says nothing about murdering people.

So, no

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. That would be sin of omission. Sins of commission are harder to slide out from under. . . . nt

[SeattleVet]

7. I've been saying that since his inauguration.

Since he has absolutely NO ability.

We need to close that loophole in the oath!