The oath of office of the president of the United States is the oath or affirmation that the president of the United States takes upon assuming office. The wording of the oath is specified in Article II, Section One, Clause 8, of the United States Constitution, and a new president is required to take it before exercising or carrying out any official powers or duties.
This clause is one of three oath or affirmation clauses in the Constitution, but it is the only one that actually specifies the words that must be spoken.
[…]
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
After having taken the Oath twice (Jan 20 2017 and 2025), one would think he would remember it but….
WASHINGTONāPresident Trump said he was uncertain whether he was duty bound to uphold the Constitution, saying in a television interview aired Sunday that was a question better posed to his lawyers.
Trump was asked whether noncitizens are entitled to due process, which the Fifth Amendment requires before any person within the U.S. may ābe deprived of life, liberty, or property.ā
āI donāt know. Iām not, Iām not a lawyer. I donāt know,ā Trump told interviewer Kristen Welker on the NBC News program, āMeet the Press.ā While the Fifth Amendment āmight say that,ā Trump said compliance would require āa million or two million or three million trialsā before undesirable immigrants could be removed.
āI was elected to get them the hell out of here, and the courts are holding me from doing it,ā Trump said.
āDonāt you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?ā Welker asked.
āI donāt 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,ā Trump said.
[…]
āA president who doubts his most fundamental dutyāhis sworn oath to the Constitutionāis unfit for the office,ā said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D., Conn.). āDefiance of the law is becoming this administrationās hallmark, threatening irreparable damage.ā
[continues]
NPR
Welker then pressed Trump on whether he, as president, needs to abide by the Constitution and the rights it provides to people in the U.S.
“I don’t know,” Trump said. “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.”
President Donald Trump oath of office Jan. 2017 parody made by DIW
This video is produced by DIW (De Ideale Wereld)
The rapid cratering of sfb continues. Every day will be a steeper dive into a hole. Bring back Alcatraz he dictates. Yeah right. He wants a room with a view? He has no idea what the place is, where it is and actually what it is. Maybe he was watching a Jimmy Cagney movie.
Make a bigly tariff on foreign movies is another looney dictate. Is a movie being made in Georgia and parts of Scotland a foreign movie. What about people using a VPN to watch a movie in Germany? Bonkers stuff there.
I can hardly wait for today’s idiocy. Just for sfb – Feliz cinco de mayo! That should make his racist little brain tingle a bit.
Nailed it, Pat.
BB, it was a wild weekend of feces-slinging to keep us āentertainedā and our eyes diverted. The Pope, Alcatraz, the doll babies, the birthday paradeā¦Like clowns at the rodeo while the bull gores the fallen cowboy. Too bad we canāt just ignore him. We will take it all in but keep our eyes on the main event.
Memorial to victims of gun violence taken down at ATF headquarters
The āFaces of Gun Violenceā memorial was installed at ATF in 2024 to remind the workforce of the human toll.
Brenda Haymon Joiner, a gun-control advocate whose slain fatherās portrait was included in the memorial, said she saw its dismantling as a sign of the new administrationās priorities. āI think of him daily,ā Haymon Joiner, who works at the advocacy group Brady United, said of her father, Robert Godwin. āAnd I was proud to know that his photo at the ATF was a reminder to the agency of who theyāre fighting for. Now, for all I know, his photo is sitting at the bottom of a trash can. The ATF used to be an agency dedicated to fighting for people. Now, itās crystal clear that its mandate has become fighting on behalf of gun industry profits.ā
The portraits were removed at a time of uncertainty for ATF. Trump has not nominated a permanent director for the agency. He tapped FBI Director Kash Patel to serve as interim director as he also led the FBI, but Patel was soon replaced by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll. The White House wants to slash the agencyās approximately $1.5 billion annual budget by about a third, or nearly $500 million, according to budget documents released Friday. The proposal appears to cut much of the regulatory arm of ATF while saying it would leave resources for gun tracing and investigating gun traffickers. But more modest cuts in the past have forced cuts to ATF law enforcement, and if the agency loses a third of its budget, it would probably lead to law enforcement reductions.
Iām ready for the curtain to rise on Impeachment Show IV.
yeah… let’s all drink margaritas and eat tacos. It’ll piss off maga…
Whatās all this I keep hearing about The Oaf of Office?
āEmily Latella
well he didn’t put his hand on the bible
Muhammad Ali and Legendary TV Host Battle Over Race in Explosive TV Interview: ‘You Lying Just Like the Devil’
Good documentary last night on MSNBC: David Frost vs. Muhammad Ali.
Mr. Ivy snapped this photo in 1974 in Hartford.
So SFB wants to reopen Alcatraz – what an idiot.
There are several reasons that Alcatraz closed as a penitentiary in 1963. The penitentiary cost much more to operate than other prisons (nearly $10 per prisoner per day, as opposed to $3 per prisoner per day at Atlanta).[34] Half a century of salt water saturation had severely eroded the buildings …
WIKI
Not a very DOGEy idea is it?
Sturg – Never mind. -Emily L (and TFG)
~Big Balls~ of DOGE infamy, had a grandfather who was KGB. What a great cover; to ādefectā from the KGB. By the way, this news is monthās old.
GOP amps up Trump impeachment talk in midterm battle as party leaders woo Kemp for Senate: Even though Democratic leaders are wary of a third impeachment vote, the topic has become a prominent discussion in GOP ranks, with Trump eager to avoid another all-consuming showdown with an emboldened Democratic majority and Republican leaders banking the talk could help drive up turnout in an election where Trump wonāt be at the top of the ticket.
Chris Krebsā, President Donald Trumpās former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, membership in Global Entry has been revoked. Krebs, who has repeatedly attested to the security of the 2020 election, told CNN he finds it hard to believe this isnāt another act of retribution from the administration.
On Wednesday afternoon, Krebs received an email saying that his Trusted Traveler Program status had changed. He logged into the program and learned his Global Entry program membership had been revoked, he told CNN. Global Entry is the US Customs and Border Protection program that gives low-risk travelers expedited clearance when they arrive in the US.
Krebs, a Republican appointee in his first term, received bipartisan praise for telling the truth about the 2020 election, which aroused the ire of Trump, whose lies about the election led to the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. On April 9, Trump signed an executive order instructing his government to punish Krebs in various ways, including ordering the attorney general to investigate him, though there is no evidence he has committed any crime.
*Does that mean a US citizen could potentially be refused re-entry into the US, or that itās just going to be a pain to get back in?
Top of the page at WaPo:
Faltering economy is starting to become a drag on housing market
President Donald Trumpās trade war is sending construction costs up, and interest rates are likely staying high this year.
Not a good sign for recovery.
My African Violets just popped out. There is hope after all.
Whatās on the menu?
Beautiful blossoms, Craig. African violets and orchids: under the right conditions, they do best with a regimen of benign neglect.
Like kids growing up with the drunk dad: 18 canāt come fast enough.
Shares of entertainment companies including Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global took a hit Monday as investors assessed Hollywoodās potential exposure to President Trumpās as-yet undefined vow to impose a 100% tariff on foreign-produced films.
Trump said he is authorizing the Commerce Department and the U.S. Trade Representative to āimmediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.ā
On Monday morning, White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement, āAlthough no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been made, the Administration is exploring all options to deliver on President Trumpās directive to safeguard our countryās national and economic security while Making Hollywood Great Again.ā
*Canāt wait for this sh/tshow to end, so the honest documentaries, dramadies, and spoofs are createdā¦but some time will have to pass.
Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., faced another hostile crowd at a town hall as attendees broke out into boos and jeers and a constituent was forcibly removed by police.
The swing district congressman was pressed on May 4 over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, deportations, spending cuts and other issues as he addressed 600 people at the Kennedy Catholic Preparatory School in Somers, New York, The Journal News reported.
āBipartisan sounds nice, but meaningful bipartisanship is in votes taken, not in the fig-leaf of co-sponsored bills,ā one attendee told Lawler. āNow is your time to stand up to the authoritarian Trump regime.ā
At one point during the town hall, police surrounded a woman in the crowd and she told them, āIām not leaving,ā according to footage from ABC News. People around her began chanting, āLet her stay!ā and she was eventually carried out of the event by police.
It was not clear why she was removed.
*But it looked like they were carrying out a frail senior citizen. Not a good look for anyone, Republicans.
the moron doesnāt understand streaming because heās old and out of touch
Horse-drawn carts must be made in America!
ofc our anti-elitist dumb friends and families elected the most elitist ***********r ever, heād step over every one of them in the street
I have three separate-but-equal social groups, ie., groupings of friends who do not know the others. In each of them, there is organizing, sign-making, and marching, and all are gearing up for more demonstrations and protests. Old people getting feisty. I was never a marcher during the 70s but I may end up being one in my 70s.
does this fucking moron want more children to study animation to supplant the Vietnamese animation market?
i thought these people hated kids drawing and the arts
Or is our economic policy being driven by the ignorant whims of an idiot?
OK, Iāve called Republican Senators to vote no on Adolfās pick for SSA. Thereās a rally at the swamp in DC tonight. Wish I lived there to go to these things. If you are so inclined to make calls: 202-224-3121
Yep, and Adolf didnāt put up that āA-Oneā image of himself as Pope, either. Heās either surrounded by yes-men, or he has idiots coming up with these things on their own. Itās probably both.
Renee
A little music to celebrate the day
lol, looked on Fandango, a movie in theaters now is an animated film called āKing of Kingsā which is obviously a Christian movie, sounds good to Maga, right?
South Korean movie animated in Vietnam
hooray the most thoughtless person in America as its president! š
“i thought these people hated kids drawing and the arts”
anon, only if they use more than 5 pencils (aka crayons), one of those Crayola boxes of 250 different colors which DODO abhors is just too DEI.
BTW on the 2 vs 30 doll edict, there are many a family out there who find it hard to scrap enough together to buy even one doll and now with prices going sky high might as well get out the directions on how to make a sock monkey doll. maybe name him little marco
Itās not the kids collecting 30 dolls, itās the grown-ups.
āThere is a network of hobbyists who customize the doll for resale and create clothing and shoes for Blythe. Enthusiasts share photographs of their work and other types of dolls on the Internet.ā
I hooked up the big speakers and have been entertaining the neighborhood with my Cinco de Mayo playlist I posted above. Given where I live it may be risky. If you don’t hear from me you will know somebody objected.
Jack
Sgt. Schultz says says he knew nothing about an artificially generated image of him dressed as the pope that was posted to his Truth Social account over the weekend.
Then again as we say down in this world “fuck’em if they cant take a joke”
Back to gardening.
Jack
Ivy, that may be the only truthful thing he has said all week.
ā¦
just fyi trumpers love Mexican food, see āem looking surly over a plate of delicious food and leaving without tipping at Mexican restaurants all the time
ā¦pretty sure itās their favorite cuisine
Couldnāt really get past the ābeautiful baby girlā¦ ā thatās 11 years oldā part, which is probably a confession.
āPresident Donald Trump has defended and expanded on his comments about tariffs and childrenās toysā¦ā
When asked if Americans could see empty store shelves, Trump replied, āNo, no, Iām not saying that. Iām just saying they donāt need to have 30. They can have three. They donāt need to. They can have five.
*Why does the voodoo doll have a heart?
ā ļø WARNING: Prime Rib is backāand slightly charred.
Day Two LEFTOVER CHAOS
Mr. Ivy decided against Cinqo de Mayo cuisine tonight. We had our fair share of Mexican fare in Mexico. The stuff we eat on this side of the Gulf of Mexico can hardly be called Mexican. Weāll likely break into a bottle of the tequila we brought back. This powerful stuff is meant to drink straight, not diluted in a margarita.
Remember that sfb is a cover for what the rest of the staff does that they do not want seen. How about all this garbage about Alcatraz is cover for the drunk secretary to fire twenty percent of the U.S. generals and more. CNN reporting.
We are having a new roof put in today. Lots of Spanish radio from on high playing for Cinco de Mayo.
Ivy,
Suck on the lime, lick the salt, and down the tequila straight.
Pam’s rules: Never drink anything filtered through peat; never drink anything that is used to drown worms; never drink anything that is greenish, and now yellowish, might be a radiator involved; never drink anything that does not have a label on a bottle somewhere; never drink anything that the pourer keeps away from flames; never drink anything that looks like an ashtray was in it; never drink anything that has a teabag in it and it is not a teacup; never drink anything that is on fire; never drink anything that Mickey is drinking; never drink anything that somebody gives me; never drink anything “bought by” someone and delivered to me; never drink anything that requires a fancy glass, martini excluded.
Technically not ātequilaā but no worms.
Jamie, I admire what those guys do 50 feet from the ground.
wiki:
After having taken the Oath twice (Jan 20 2017 and 2025), one would think he would remember it but….
WSJ https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-says-i-don-t-know-when-asked-if-he-must-uphold-the-constitution/ar-AA1E9b91?ocid=BingNewsSerp
NPR
President Donald Trump oath of office Jan. 2017 parody made by DIW
This video is produced by DIW (De Ideale Wereld)
The rapid cratering of sfb continues. Every day will be a steeper dive into a hole. Bring back Alcatraz he dictates. Yeah right. He wants a room with a view? He has no idea what the place is, where it is and actually what it is. Maybe he was watching a Jimmy Cagney movie.
Make a bigly tariff on foreign movies is another looney dictate. Is a movie being made in Georgia and parts of Scotland a foreign movie. What about people using a VPN to watch a movie in Germany? Bonkers stuff there.
I can hardly wait for today’s idiocy. Just for sfb – Feliz cinco de mayo! That should make his racist little brain tingle a bit.
Nailed it, Pat.
BB, it was a wild weekend of feces-slinging to keep us āentertainedā and our eyes diverted. The Pope, Alcatraz, the doll babies, the birthday paradeā¦Like clowns at the rodeo while the bull gores the fallen cowboy. Too bad we canāt just ignore him. We will take it all in but keep our eyes on the main event.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/05/04/atf-gun-violence-memorial-removed-trump/
IMG_2549
Iām ready for the curtain to rise on Impeachment Show IV.
yeah… let’s all drink margaritas and eat tacos. It’ll piss off maga…
Whatās all this I keep hearing about The Oaf of Office?
āEmily Latella
well he didn’t put his hand on the bible
Good documentary last night on MSNBC: David Frost vs. Muhammad Ali.
Mr. Ivy snapped this photo in 1974 in Hartford.
So SFB wants to reopen Alcatraz – what an idiot.
WIKI
Not a very DOGEy idea is it?
Sturg – Never mind. -Emily L (and TFG)
~Big Balls~ of DOGE infamy, had a grandfather who was KGB. What a great cover; to ādefectā from the KGB. By the way, this news is monthās old.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-doge-edward-coristine-big-balls-kgb-agent-2036520
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/04/politics/trump-republicans-midterms-kemp-senate
Iāve lost track of how many impeachments have happened. To me it feels like XXX.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/politics/chris-krebs-cbp-global-entry-revoked
Chris Krebsā, President Donald Trumpās former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, membership in Global Entry has been revoked. Krebs, who has repeatedly attested to the security of the 2020 election, told CNN he finds it hard to believe this isnāt another act of retribution from the administration.
On Wednesday afternoon, Krebs received an email saying that his Trusted Traveler Program status had changed. He logged into the program and learned his Global Entry program membership had been revoked, he told CNN. Global Entry is the US Customs and Border Protection program that gives low-risk travelers expedited clearance when they arrive in the US.
Krebs, a Republican appointee in his first term, received bipartisan praise for telling the truth about the 2020 election, which aroused the ire of Trump, whose lies about the election led to the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. On April 9, Trump signed an executive order instructing his government to punish Krebs in various ways, including ordering the attorney general to investigate him, though there is no evidence he has committed any crime.
*Does that mean a US citizen could potentially be refused re-entry into the US, or that itās just going to be a pain to get back in?
Top of the page at WaPo:
Not a good sign for recovery.
My African Violets just popped out. There is hope after all.
Whatās on the menu?
Beautiful blossoms, Craig. African violets and orchids: under the right conditions, they do best with a regimen of benign neglect.
Like kids growing up with the drunk dad: 18 canāt come fast enough.
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/trump-movie-tariff-stocks-studios-disney-netflix-1236386712/
Shares of entertainment companies including Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global took a hit Monday as investors assessed Hollywoodās potential exposure to President Trumpās as-yet undefined vow to impose a 100% tariff on foreign-produced films.
Trump said he is authorizing the Commerce Department and the U.S. Trade Representative to āimmediately begin the process of instituting a 100% Tariff on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.ā
On Monday morning, White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement, āAlthough no final decisions on foreign film tariffs have been made, the Administration is exploring all options to deliver on President Trumpās directive to safeguard our countryās national and economic security while Making Hollywood Great Again.ā
*Canāt wait for this sh/tshow to end, so the honest documentaries, dramadies, and spoofs are createdā¦but some time will have to pass.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/05/mike-lawler-gop-lawmaker-rowdy-town-hall/83453935007/
Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., faced another hostile crowd at a town hall as attendees broke out into boos and jeers and a constituent was forcibly removed by police.
The swing district congressman was pressed on May 4 over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, deportations, spending cuts and other issues as he addressed 600 people at the Kennedy Catholic Preparatory School in Somers, New York, The Journal News reported.
āBipartisan sounds nice, but meaningful bipartisanship is in votes taken, not in the fig-leaf of co-sponsored bills,ā one attendee told Lawler. āNow is your time to stand up to the authoritarian Trump regime.ā
At one point during the town hall, police surrounded a woman in the crowd and she told them, āIām not leaving,ā according to footage from ABC News. People around her began chanting, āLet her stay!ā and she was eventually carried out of the event by police.
It was not clear why she was removed.
*But it looked like they were carrying out a frail senior citizen. Not a good look for anyone, Republicans.
the moron doesnāt understand streaming because heās old and out of touch
Horse-drawn carts must be made in America!
ofc our anti-elitist dumb friends and families elected the most elitist ***********r ever, heād step over every one of them in the street
I have three separate-but-equal social groups, ie., groupings of friends who do not know the others. In each of them, there is organizing, sign-making, and marching, and all are gearing up for more demonstrations and protests. Old people getting feisty. I was never a marcher during the 70s but I may end up being one in my 70s.
does this fucking moron want more children to study animation to supplant the Vietnamese animation market?
i thought these people hated kids drawing and the arts
Or is our economic policy being driven by the ignorant whims of an idiot?
OK, Iāve called Republican Senators to vote no on Adolfās pick for SSA. Thereās a rally at the swamp in DC tonight. Wish I lived there to go to these things. If you are so inclined to make calls: 202-224-3121
Yep, and Adolf didnāt put up that āA-Oneā image of himself as Pope, either. Heās either surrounded by yes-men, or he has idiots coming up with these things on their own. Itās probably both.
Renee
A little music to celebrate the day
lol, looked on Fandango, a movie in theaters now is an animated film called āKing of Kingsā which is obviously a Christian movie, sounds good to Maga, right?
South Korean movie animated in Vietnam
hooray the most thoughtless person in America as its president! š
“i thought these people hated kids drawing and the arts”
anon, only if they use more than 5 pencils (aka crayons), one of those Crayola boxes of 250 different colors which DODO abhors is just too DEI.
BTW on the 2 vs 30 doll edict, there are many a family out there who find it hard to scrap enough together to buy even one doll and now with prices going sky high might as well get out the directions on how to make a sock monkey doll. maybe name him little marco
Itās not the kids collecting 30 dolls, itās the grown-ups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blythe_(doll)
āThere is a network of hobbyists who customize the doll for resale and create clothing and shoes for Blythe. Enthusiasts share photographs of their work and other types of dolls on the Internet.ā
I hooked up the big speakers and have been entertaining the neighborhood with my Cinco de Mayo playlist I posted above. Given where I live it may be risky. If you don’t hear from me you will know somebody objected.
Jack
Then again as we say down in this world “fuck’em if they cant take a joke”
Back to gardening.
Jack
Ivy, that may be the only truthful thing he has said all week.
ā¦
just fyi trumpers love Mexican food, see āem looking surly over a plate of delicious food and leaving without tipping at Mexican restaurants all the time
ā¦pretty sure itās their favorite cuisine
Couldnāt really get past the ābeautiful baby girlā¦ ā thatās 11 years oldā part, which is probably a confession.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/trump-doubles-down-on-dolls-remark-says-11-year-olds-dont-need-30-dolls/articleshow/120893371.cms
āPresident Donald Trump has defended and expanded on his comments about tariffs and childrenās toysā¦ā
When asked if Americans could see empty store shelves, Trump replied, āNo, no, Iām not saying that. Iām just saying they donāt need to have 30. They can have three. They donāt need to. They can have five.
*Why does the voodoo doll have a heart?
ā ļø WARNING: Prime Rib is backāand slightly charred.
Day Two LEFTOVER CHAOS
Mr. Ivy decided against Cinqo de Mayo cuisine tonight. We had our fair share of Mexican fare in Mexico. The stuff we eat on this side of the Gulf of Mexico can hardly be called Mexican. Weāll likely break into a bottle of the tequila we brought back. This powerful stuff is meant to drink straight, not diluted in a margarita.
Remember that sfb is a cover for what the rest of the staff does that they do not want seen. How about all this garbage about Alcatraz is cover for the drunk secretary to fire twenty percent of the U.S. generals and more. CNN reporting.
We are having a new roof put in today. Lots of Spanish radio from on high playing for Cinco de Mayo.
Ivy,
Suck on the lime, lick the salt, and down the tequila straight.
Pam’s rules: Never drink anything filtered through peat; never drink anything that is used to drown worms; never drink anything that is greenish, and now yellowish, might be a radiator involved; never drink anything that does not have a label on a bottle somewhere; never drink anything that the pourer keeps away from flames; never drink anything that looks like an ashtray was in it; never drink anything that has a teabag in it and it is not a teacup; never drink anything that is on fire; never drink anything that Mickey is drinking; never drink anything that somebody gives me; never drink anything “bought by” someone and delivered to me; never drink anything that requires a fancy glass, martini excluded.
Technically not ātequilaā but no worms.
Jamie, I admire what those guys do 50 feet from the ground.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-escape-from-alcatraz-pbs-b2745233.html
Trump announced Alcatraz reopening just hours after āEscape from Alcatrazā aired on a South Florida PBS station
SFB was watching PBS!
Almond and peach flavored tequila?
Is it very sweet?
Jack
Jack, sweet but not sugary. Goes down easy.
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