Able to leap over legal obstacles in a single bound, it’s SuperTrump (and we’re not talking the 70’s British band, although the title of their third—and first breakthrough— album, Crime of the Century, might be appropriate for today’s topic.)
Having been ruled by the alpha pack of the US legal system, as immune from prosecution for any official act carried out as president of the United States, Donald Trump is increasingly flexing the muscles of his newfound power beyond where any president has gone before. And why not? Maybe the courts will decide a particular action was illegal, even illegal many countless ways. They cannot prosecute him. So, do it, and let courts decide the act, itself, cannot be done; then do it again anyway somewhere else because the courts can’t prosecute the president for doing it again either. No matter how many times he does it.
(Practicality might stop him, as some people will refuse to obey him once something he is commanding has been determined illegal by the courts, but that doesn’t seem to slow him down much either because his own party has been willing to carry out his every decree. Even Democrats don’t seem to be putting up much successful resistance these days. It seems he flies like Superman and rules with an iron scepter.)
Surely, the great minds of the Supreme Court foresaw that testing of this superpower was assured. It’s a legal invincibility cloak. Any president, but especially the brazen Trump, is going to test the limits of that newly realized power. It’s almost absolute power just because it renders the president untouchable for just about anything he does. Prior to that ruling, other presidents were afraid of testing this broad interpretation of presidential immunity.
Now we know the broadest interpretation is the law of the land, and I’m sure we’ll see the president become more extreme as he feels increasingly emboldened by his new invincibility and by a Supreme Court that seems unwilling to rein him in on anything. We’re likely in for a wild ride over the next 3.5 years as the president tests and flexes his superpower of legal invincibility.
One congressman even wants to see that timeframe for the king, who now does everything by decree, extended. So, he has put forward a bill to amend the Constitution’s 22nd Amendment in order to create a special Trump Exemption from the two-term limit. He sees the US as being in an emergency time, just as Trump sees everything because emergencies supercharge a president’s power; so, the congressman believes an exception for exceptional times should be added to the constitution, allowing a third term if someone elected to their second term after losing an election or being wrongly declared the loser, following his or her first term. That sounds like an ammendment to the constitution for one-time use.
The resolution would limit a person to no more than three elections to the presidency, with the stipulation that no more than two terms could be consecutive. This change would specifically accommodate presidents like Trump, who have served nonconsecutive terms, while barring those with two consecutive stints, such as former Presidents Barack Obama or George W. Bush. Ogles has described the measure as having significant backing within Republican circles, noting in May 2025 that it enjoys “a lot of support” among his colleagues….
He also commended Trump’s recent decisions, including the deployment of the National Guard to address urban unrest, and urged similar actions in cities plagued by rising crime rates, such as Nashville, Memphis, and Chicago.
Brave new world
It’s a different country now, Folks, than you’ve ever seen as political parties will go all-out to extend the ability of their president to govern by decree faster than the courts can figure out what he or she is up to. By the time the courts rule, the deed is mostly done, and it’s on to the next caper.
If you like all of this because it’s Trump, just remember the Democrats opportunity to use the new superpower is coming. It always does. Whenever one party exceeds the established norms of civility or pushes the bounds of constitutionality, the next party always sees it as their turn to do the same in retaliation … and so we spiral down politically into our worst behaviors.
We have yet to see how far Trump will go as he pushes the envelope to test the limits of his new superpower to break the law with impunity as often as he wants (so long as he can make the case that it was an official act … and MAYBE he’ll have to prove it was also within his constitutional jurisdiction in order claim the immunity).
In the following article, Trump builds his case for using his superpower any way he wants to:
Police State: Trump Sends Military To Chicago, 'We're Going In.' Says ‘I Have The Right To Do Anything I Want’ Because ‘I’m The President’
One federal court a level down from the US Supreme Court has already ruled that the president cannot just call anything an emergency just because he believes things are not going as well as they could for the United States. That was this week with respect to tariffs where he sought to rectify years of what he saw as bad trade deals (including those he negotiated and signed in his first term).
Another federal court said he illegally deployed the National Guard in Los Angelos, but that isn’t stopping him from doing it again in Chicago and then, he says, in Baltimore and then New Orleans because what’s the worst that can happen? He can be told by some court to get out of Chicago. So what? By then, he’s likely accomplished a good part of what he wanted to, so on to Baltimore. He can even drag his feet getting out of Chicago. So what? What are the courts going to do to him if he defies them? (That’s why we have a bunch of federal magistrates today saying that the Supreme Court is undermining them.) Rinse and repeat. Again and again.
There is a cost to these town cleanups that use the Guard for things it was originally intended for, though. This broadening of the Guard’s duties is simply not what any Guardsman signed up for, so morale is receding as the Guard’s tenure in DC extends. It’s likely to recede more as more areas are taken under presidential control, and the Guard is increasingly turned into a herd of groundskeepers, picking up trash, which he has literally had them doing.
“We haven’t gotten critically low on morale, but we’re falling fast,” said one soldier who, like others quoted in this story, spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity because they’re not authorized to speak to the media and feared reprisal….
Trump has also threatened to mobilize the National Guard to other cities, including Chicago, Baltimore and New Orleans, as part of his administration’s crackdown on crime. He’s said he could keep National Guard members in Washington “as long as I want” by declaring a national emergency.
The courts can slap Trump’s hand all they want (maybe that’s why it’s so bruised), but they cannot do anything to him. If he can find a right way to do it as an official presidential act, he may even murder his opponents as an act that became essential to stabilize America in a time of increasingly hot turmoil under his rule. OK, that’s a stretch, though not as much as one might ordinarily think because Trump has already made clear that murder in plain site is part of his superpower. As civil unrest grows violent in response to Trump’s imposition of the military for civil rule, that violence could become a true national emergency. So, maybe the president will even create his own emergencies in order to expand his superpower of legal invincibility as well as his term as president because he has talked about extending his term, too.
He can hardly be expected to step down at the end of his term if the country is embroiled in civil war, and so far we have seen Trump does do most of the things we once thought were outrageous once he runs the flag up the pole to see how well it flies with his own band. If says he may, or that “some say” he can, he usually later does. We see, for example, in another story today that he has people stationed in Greenland actively seeking to subvert the government of Denmark in that land.
It could, of course, still turn out that Epstein is Trump’s kryptonite. Not likely, but every Superman has his green stuff. For now, the Democrats look more like the ones who are sitting on kryptonite, as they are the ones who have gone limp compared to days of old when they would all be like dogs on red meat.
Speaking of red meat, another story today says that is no longer a dog’s preferred diet, as some veterinarians are turning dogs into vegetarians, convinced a vegan diet is better for them. That kind of thing may explain how someone like Trump comes to power in the first place: the Left becomes insane at such a widespread and newly enshrined level—like Biden’s transvestite, baby whisperers running story time after they finish their pink military parades, reading from books about having two dads, one of them artificially impregnated—that terminating the inanity by any means seems the only way of escaping the sensation of brain numbness … or just dumbness.)
More headlines follow below, but I particularly wanted to point out the one above: