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Trump's 'I alone can fix it' view and state powers collide

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By MICHAEL TACKETT

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The USA needs a stable genius in the Oval Office right now.

Unfortunately, it doesn't have one. It has a manchild with delusions of grandeur.

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Wannabe dictator.  Reality is he is a fool way out of his depth.

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If Trump alone can fix it, we are all doooomed...

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Trump is starting to worry me. He can't order states and cities to reopen based on his "command" and he's starting to freak out over how a poor economy will impact his reelection chances. It's going to eat away at him and his behavior will become more erratic, especially if states decide they are not on board with his recommendations.

Maybe we will get lucky and everyone ends up on the same page, but if the economy worsens and some states/cities don't open up, he's going to go over the deep end.

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he has “total authority”

until he makes another poor decision and says 'I'm not responsible for that'. The world's three most powerful leaders, Xi, Putin and Trump, have each made similar 'poor decisions', saying ('intentionally misinforming') at first virus problems are under control (when they weren't), hidden and skewed data, and waited far too long to take action. How many deaths, illnesses, and lost trillions (US$) are their 'poor decisions' responsible for. What responsibility will they each take.

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In doing so, he reignited a debate as old as the nation over the division of power and authority between the federal government and the states.

Civics class junior high school. Possible essay question on the midterm.

“When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total, And that’s how it’s got to be,” Trump said.

Different political systems, but Trump is the same as Xi, Kim, and Abe. Everybody wants to rule the world.

A tyrant needs no excuses

A Wolf was drinking at a spring on a hillside. On looking up he saw a Lamb just beginning to drink lower down. “There’s my supper,” thought he, “if only I can find some excuse to seize it.” He called out to the Lamb, “How dare you muddle my drinking water?”

“No,” said the Lamb; “if the water is muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me.”

“Well, then,” said the Wolf, “why did you call me bad names this time last year?”

“That cannot be,” said the Lamb; “I am only six months old.”

“I don’t care,” snarled the Wolf; “if it was not you, it was your father;” and with that he rushed upon the poor little Lamb and ate her all up.

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President Donald Trump insists there are “numerous provisions” in the Constitution to support his view that he has “total authority” to order states to open their economies as the coronavirus pandemic roils. He did not enumerate what they were. And the consensus among constitutional scholars is that's because they don't exist.

Donny and his "fake" facts. Priceless self delusion which all Americans are suffering for...

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Mr. Noidall

So you aren't defending what Trump said....just attacking others for disagreeing with what he said?

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Thanks to this forum, that exists to to put Trump in his place, I can really vent my feelings that Trump is the worst. 

If the views of Japan Today readers is not to your liking you literally have several dozens of right-wing leaning websites you could go to to get opinions that will fit and comfort your own.

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A dangerous and mentally unstable man, a pathological liar who will blame anyone but himself.

Watch him squirm and berate and throw a tantrum, this man who grieves for his ratings whilst his citizens die.

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I wish Trump was as great as he sees himself.

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Where is the government financial support?

Some Americans might get unemployment insurance, enough to perhaps pay rent.

And on top of that up to US$20. - each day! For up to two whole months!

Which according to multi-millionaire Mnuchin is all they (i.e. the general population) need to get by. All they (the 'them', the nuisances that are the working and middle class) need to pay utilities and buy food. Of course not enough to pay for medical care. And now that Trump's helping the oil industry as they're increasing the cost of gasoline at the pump, not enough to drive to the doctor's office anyway. Let them be trickled down on! And be belittled for needing food stamps.

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Well, he’s certainly established that he alone is capable of screwing things up so bad that they need fixing. Maybe that is what he meant?

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So, what do you think of Donny’s statement that he has absolute power?

The only response a certain type of Trump supporter can think of when challenged on factual matters is the "orange man bad" response. I expect to see it shortly.

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How many times has Trump said of someone they came begging for a job or they begged for my support. He falls back on this default form of criticism all the time.

No imagination - only resentment, arrogance and incompetence.

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What irony! The ghost of "Mr Constitution", the "saintly", "originalist", Justice Scalia, has returned to haunt the Republicans and bite the blusterer who's never read the US Constitution because he can't understand it ("it's like a foreign language", quoth Trump) on his b*tt. States' Rights Rule! Yeah!

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The governors don’t need his “authorization”. They can govern their state as they please.

They were already making ventilators then Trump “authorizes” them to make ventilators.

I authorize my cat to take a nap.

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The current occupant of the White House is clueless about this subject, as well as most aspects of running the executive branch of the United States of America.

As each day passes, he continues to hold “press conferences”which are really reelection campaign rallies filled with blame games, disinformation and misinformation.

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United States

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“When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total, And that’s how it’s got to be,” Trump said.

These are the words of dictator. There is no defending this.

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“He alone” has been blamed for it. I can see his desire to fix it.

Otherwise he will again be “he alone” blamed for politically tinged decisions governors make.

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3 liberal states on the east coast and 3 liberal states on the west coast have already banded together to #resist reopening. 5 more weeks of shut down.

Fine, open up the states that want to first. Let those other states stay closed and let their residents see their liberal leaders for the politics first people they are.

strange it’s supposedly trumps fault totally for not shutting down the entire USA last November or something. He could have shut it all down- Orangemanbad. but now he supposedly has no power to open it all back up?

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In a stunning turn of events, Surgeon General Jerome Adams explained in an interview on live XM radio, that the Coronavirus Task Force has, effectively, dumped the Bill Gates/CDC/WHO predictive contagion model, and is now working with the real data.

He explained on the Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Daily host Alex Marlow, that given the new data, businesses will begin to re-open as early as May, others in June.

This runs contrary to the out-and-out fear-mongering of Dr. Fauci and Bill Gates who have made a media tour, threatening the public that businesses may not re-open for six months to a year, or until and unless governments purchase their conveniently patented, big-pharma vaccination.

https://community.oilprice.com/topic/13016-us-surgeon-general-adams-dumps-bill-gates-who-cdc-%E2%80%98predictive-contagion%E2%80%99-model/

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real data. All day long. Even if our real data likely has significant “presumptive” coronavirus caused deaths in it.

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strange it’s supposedly trumps fault totally for not shutting down the entire USA last November or something. He could have shut it all down- Orangemanbad. but now he supposedly has no power to open it all back up?

Lololol not "supposedly." He has no power to force states to do anything. Source: the US Constitution.

Its also important to note that Korea, using the same info the US has only 220 deaths. Reason; Korea isn't run by an egotistical moron.

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There's no debate on this. Trump does not have this power. 4th grade Civics taught that. Then high school Civics, then University Constitutional Law. No question.

January 20th cannot happen quickly enough.

The mandatory shutdown for places heavily experiencing the virus needs to go into June, at least. We don't want a "W" or "WV" or worse, "WW" for the deaths do we? The economy is secondary to me. Lives some first.

There are places where there is very little impact because they don't have people from other areas coming and going for the last month. https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map from Johns Hopkins U. South Georgia has a real problem compared to metro Atlanta based on normalized data. My county is 750K people. Little over 700 cases, 33 deaths. So about 1:1000 and probably clustered around a family or work location. About 10% of the infected people don't have health coverage, which doesn't back up what other posters in these forums would have you think.

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Blacklabel

strange it’s supposedly trumps fault totally for not shutting down the entire USA last November or something. He could have shut it all down- Orangemanbad. but now he supposedly has no power to open it all back up?

Only thing trump did was ban foreign nationals from entering the US if they were in China within the prior two weeks at the end of January.... he did nothing else until March, after spending all of February ignoring what was happening in China and elsewhere, ignoring his advisers, and twittering about other stuff. Could have been proactive, but no....another failure of Trump which you cannot explain away.

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This man-child is mentally-unstable, delusional, hypocritical, selfish, petty, uneducated, immature and a liar. And yet what I find more frightening is that he has so many supporters and fans. And the minions in the republican party are either spineless or really hate their own country. Or both. Please, drain the swamp and lock'em up.

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Trump specifically said "in this situation" . Under the emergency powers act he does have the authority

Lolol what would the emergency be? Getting Donny re-elected? ;)

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We don’t have a king in this country,” Cuomo said in his daily news briefing Tuesday. “We didn’t want a king. So we have a Constitution and we elect a president.”

True! And we need a strong president who can lead us out of what is quickly becoming the worst economic in our history. No president has ever had to deal with such a situation.

Trump is the man to do it. Who really thinks Biden or Bernie is up to this task?

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As a Californian, I know how jealously we pride our independence. Trump is bumping heads with the wrong people - not to mention constitutionally incorrect.

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As a Californian, I know how jealously we pride our independence.

Yes, as a Californian, I think he should bump heads like a ram

Trump is bumping heads with the wrong people - not to mention constitutionally incorrect.

Oh, yeah, what will they do, try and bring out more liberal lawyers to try and stop him? Good luck

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The stable genius is no longer stable, once more!

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Trump specifically says not he, but the president, meaning the office, apropos the federal government has total authority over the governors in this-

Understood. And he is wrong about that. The constitution of the United States does not confer on the office of the President authority over governors. Period. Its called "federalism".

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President Donald Trump insists there are “numerous provisions” in the Constitution to support his view that he has “total authority” to order states to open their economies as the coronavirus pandemic roils.

He is brainless, or so far into dementia that he can't find his way to the bathroom.

Even Fox News talking conservative head Jonathan Turley, so often cited by the Trump supporters here, said this is fantasy...

J*onathan Turley, a constitutional law professor at George Washington University who was the sole witness called by Republicans before the Judiciary Committee in the impeachment inquiry into Trump, refuted Trump's claim in a tweet: "The Constitution was written precisely [to] deny that particular claim. It also reserved to the states (& individuals) rights not expressly given to the federal government."*

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/04/13/trumps-claim-presidential-powers-gets-pushback-across-spectrum/2987065001/

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What are you talking about? I'm extremely left-wing. That's why I feel at home on this site. Didn't you read my post? I said Trump is bad. Besides, I never visit those sites. Why view opinions of both sides when we all know Trump is a brainless manchild?

I think there's enough gas lighting and trolling from the PotUS, without adding to it.

Don't you?

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He is brainless, or so far into dementia that he can't find his way to the bathroom.

https://nypost.com/2020/03/25/joe-biden-makes-series-of-gaffes-in-long-day-of-cable-news-appearances/

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1895156,00.html

https://deadline.com/2020/03/trevor-noah-confused-by-joe-biden-gaffes-1202872949/

No way Biden can be President of anything.

Even Fox News talking conservative head Jonathan Turley, so often cited by the Trump supporters here, said this is fantasy...

Turley is not a conservative, he’s a liberal and he’s an old fashioned non-bomb throwing rational one.

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Oh, yeah, what will they do, try and bring out more liberal lawyers to try and stop him

History teaches us that the people instigated change and revolted against crazed leaders.

He's finished. One way or another, he'll be remembered as a mass murderer who was more concerned with his ratings than the deaths of his citizens.

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He is brainless, or so far into dementia that he can't find his way to the bathroom.

No way Biden can be President of anything.

He knows where his father was born. And can remember his VP's name. And knows the UK didn't have airports here in 1776...

Even Fox News talking conservative head Jonathan Turley, so often cited by the Trump supporters here, said this is fantasy...

Turley is not a conservative, he’s a liberal and he’s an old fashioned non-bomb throwing rational one.

That's hilarious. This poster was citing Turley all during the impeachment hearings - saying what a Constitutional expert and authority he was - and a true conservative. Fortunately its all recorded in his archive.

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Trump is the man to do it. 

Then what is he going to do for the healthcare part of it. You can stay safe (in a depressed economy) in japan with their centralized government healthcare. If Trump can make universal TrumpCare to pay the medical bills then he would be my hero (and we need it now, not in 2019). Can Trump open Trump Medicare for all? That way Americans can save their money by NOT having to pay for healthcare costs and pay for other things like home essentials like groceries.

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It must hurt when people from your own state hate you.

By the way, there's a reason why China and Russia are over the moon with Trump being POTUS.

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Come November it will be under new management.

Trump doesn't start his second term until Jan. 20.

By the way, there's a reason why China and Russia are over the moon with Trump being POTUS.

Oh yeah, China and Russia are doing so great these days! Har!

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Oh yeah, China and Russia are doing so great these days! Har!

China has lower CV numbers and are beating the US in that regard. Even thought it started there China is beating the US. Shows that TrumpCare and Trump's public policy is failing.

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