{"id":150525,"date":"2025-02-16T19:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T19:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/trump-alludes-that-laws-dont-apply-to-him-if-he-saves-the-country\/"},"modified":"2025-02-16T19:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T19:37:31","slug":"trump-alludes-that-laws-dont-apply-to-him-if-he-saves-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/16\/trump-alludes-that-laws-dont-apply-to-him-if-he-saves-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Alludes That Laws Don\u2019t Apply To Him If He \u201cSaves\u201d The Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\">In a Saturday post on Truth Social, President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-saves-country-quote.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-saves-country-quote.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/15\/us\/politics\/trump-saves-country-quote.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">implied<\/a> that any and all actions to \u201csave\u201d the country would not be in violation of the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe who saves his Country,\u201d Trump wrote, \u201cdoes not violate any Law.\u201d The quote is a version of a line often attributed to French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, though the origins aren\u2019t clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Trump also shared the claim on <strong>Elon Musk<\/strong>\u2019s social media site X, formerly Twitter, and the official White House account also published the message paired with the president\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cly443wxl78o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">official portrait<\/a>. Musk, the richest person alive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/elon-musk-is-putting-the-entire-government-into-the-wood-chipper?srsltid=AfmBOooZHW_4yuJDnJDuKEyomt3msdzakeOsBPQvBiPbVvvjihI6hYxb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has wreaked havoc<\/a> on established federal funding practices in his short time as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/02\/13\/nx-s1-5293124\/special-government-employee-trump-musk-doge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">special government employee<\/a>, also shared the image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">In the replies to Trump\u2019s Truth Social post, which is now pinned to the top of his account, users have been sharing their own exalting versions of photos of the president with the quote atop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Trump\u2019s post that a leader could be above the law comes after legal experts warned that the president is spurring a constitutional crisis just weeks into his second term.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-jSZdqE cmter caption AssetEmbedCaption-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__caption\" data-testid=\"caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd jSwmTa iXWezO caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump appear during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump is to sign an executive order implementing the Department of Government Efficiency&#8217;s (DOGE) &#8220;workforce optimization initiative,&#8221; which, according to Trump, will encourage agencies to limit hiring and reduce the size of the federal government.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd cvffOM fNaHcW caption__credit\">Andrew Harnik\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cThere have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency. We never have seen anything like this,\u201d <strong>Erwin Chemerinsky<\/strong>, dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/10\/us\/politics\/trump-constitutional-crisis.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/10\/us\/politics\/trump-constitutional-crisis.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/10\/us\/politics\/trump-constitutional-crisis.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> <em>The New York Times<\/em> in early February. <strong>Kate Shaw<\/strong>, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, described the administration\u2019s early moves as demonstrating \u201cmaximum contempt for core constitutional values\u201d like the separation of powers, the freedom of speech, and equal justice under the law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Pamela Karlan<\/strong>, a law professor at Stanford, said in the <em>Times<\/em> article that a constitutional crisis occurs when the president \u201cdoesn\u2019t care what the Constitution says regardless whether Congress or the courts resist a particular unconstitutional action.\u201d \u201cUp until now,\u201d she continued, \u201cwhile presidents might engage in particular acts that were unconstitutional, I never had the sense that there was a president for whom the Constitution was essentially meaningless.\u201d<\/p>\n<div aria-label=\"social media post\" class=\"TwitterEmbedContainer-ggEzfU fHwbKp\">\n<div class=\"MessageBannerWrapper-krrtvl ilxjKE ConsentBannerWrapper-bMdLtU WTFWJ\" data-testid=\"message-banner\">\n<div class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ MessageBannerContent-gLUJfX iUEiRd hfDfPc lbXvvx\">\n<h4 class=\"ConsentBannerTitle-lgaGAH gOfech\">X content<\/h4>\n<p>This content can also be viewed on the site it <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/1890907530232033774\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Opens in a new window\" class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLink-eNWuiM ConsentBannerLink-dJZMSz iUEiRd hfDfPc joAuXZ\">originates<\/a> from.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/story\/trump-implies-above-the-law-to-save-the-country\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Saturday post on Truth Social, President Donald Trump implied that any and all actions to \u201csave\u201d the country would not be in violation of the law. \u201cHe who saves his Country,\u201d Trump wrote, \u201cdoes not violate any Law.\u201d The quote is a version of a line often attributed to French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[10683,54,104,4629,605,726,1791],"class_list":{"0":"post-150525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity","8":"tag-constitutional-crisis","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-law","12":"tag-mike-pence","13":"tag-trump-administration","14":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}