Donald Trump has said that he does not “need international law” and that his power is limited only by his “own morality”.

In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump said the only constraint to his power as president of the US is “my own morality, my own mind”.

"It’s the only thing that can stop me,” Trump said, adding: “I’m not looking to hurt people.” He went on to concede “I do” in regards to whether his administration needed to adhere to international law, but said: “It depends on what your definition of international law is.”

Trump, who spoke to the newspaper as his administration looks into “a range of options” in attempts of gaining control of Greenland, also emphasized the importance of ownership.

“Ownership is very important,” Trump said, adding: “Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success. I think that ownership gives you a thing that you can’t do with, you’re talking about a lease or a treaty. Ownership gives you things and elements that you can’t get from just signing a document.”

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[–] 101 points 10 months ago (2 children)

“My own morality” says the child raping baby killer that Epstein called the worst person he’s ever met

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  • [–] 69 points 10 months ago

    I'll take "Things a dictator says" for 800, Alex.

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  • [–] 38 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Considering he has no morality, I guess that means "unbridled powahhhhh!!!"

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  • [–] 73 points 10 months ago

    Well... that's not reassuring.

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    [–] 27 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I’m not looking to hurt people

    Yeah, that's a lie. You do and you're loving it. You can't be a mass murderer and say that you don't want to hurt people

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    What's crazy isn't the headline, it's his rationale. "Because that’s what I feel is psychologically needed for success." You are going to begin a conflict with allies (every day less so, but still) because of Trump's personal feelings and psychological needs. Only a dictator and those that enable dictators would be ok with this.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    The fact that he thinks this way isn't the truly bad part - it's that nobody in the government is willing to oppose his mad whims, no matter how dangerous and stupid.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Point, although they are opposing, but they are opposing by the same rule of law that he is both ignoring and rewriting at the same time. I wonder when they are going to realize they are being stringed along into a manner of opposition that is much easier for the Trump administration to deal with than any actually effective opposition.

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago

    Back in the real world, Trump has very little morality to constrain himself, but other social factors surprisingly do still constrain him, even if he’d never admit it.

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    I misread that as mortality and got excited for a second

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Antisocial Personality Disorder with Narcissistic traits.

    Jesus fuck. We have the worst kind of mental illness in a dude with power, drunk on that power.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    his “own morality”.

    From a pedophile rapist and convicted felon.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    Basically no restraints, eh.

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    Then everything is fucked unless someone does something about the orange turd because that child rapist has no morality. None whatsoever.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    Can someone please take care of the diapered, dementia-ridden orange shitsack please? Also, rescue that cat he's got stapled to his head. It's starting to look mangy...

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Jesus christ, how much blackmail does this asshole have? is he blackmailing half the worlds billionaires? How many names are really in the epstien files?

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I think you misunderstand his relationship with billionaires. Trump is an asset to billionaires. They have never had it as good as they have it under his administration. Removal of all regulation over their industries, dismantling of federal oversight and complete legal tax exemptions.

    And all for what they consider pocket change as bribes to him.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    It's disturbing how apparant this all is. Backed by all of these assholes from the very start, and now he's going down the line chopping every last thing that held them back as though he's splitting logs in a pile. AI regulations, gone. Any kind of oversight, gone. Okay, who next. Chevron! Thanks for your support. I knew you were smart. Everything beneath Venezuela is yours. Fuck 'em.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    "It’s the only thing that can stop me,”

    Famously the type of phrase said by the protagonist in the movies and not the villains.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    “I’m not looking to hurt people.”

    "Why do you make me hit you, baby?"

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  • [–] 24 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I mean based on what I’m seeing daily he’s not wrong.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago

    The human race is so fucked

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago*

    This is the guy MAGA wanted. They project their personal power fantasies and approve of him acting on his own hatreds, whims and impulses the way they dream of.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    He's above American law, why international law would restrict him?

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    He called it 'things and elements' instead of 'valuable minerals'

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    Well on the upside, every single jackass who used to stop me and wanna argue politics doesn't even look me in the eye anymore.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    He doesn’t have any so we are f’d

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    Read that as mortality, I thought I was some supervillain onion piece. Truth is not too far off though

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Because he's probably the single most powerful man in the world right now. He can send the US military anywhere in the world on a whim.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    And there is nobody willing to stop him.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    It so damn stupid. This is the same problem we humans have had to deal with over and over again all through history, and we walked right into it AGAIN. American apathy gets a lot of the blame, of course. but so do other country's governments for continuing to treat the US government as civilized and legitimate when it clearly isn't.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Power can be constrained by prison cells and handcuffs.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Listen hear me out...

    Can we just have a newsletter of "trump says" instead of reporting every fucking thing his geriatric mind spews 3 times a day? While it is important to be aware of the context of the crazy; at this point it isn't real news ffs! he's basically weekend at bernies at this point.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    I’d love to drink that bottle of champagne in my fridge soon

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    Despite desperately wishing this guy would encounter some fucking consequences... I kinda feel like hes not really wrong?

    Like what does it matter what the law says if its not applied and there are no penalties?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Huh.

    Sounds like how kings work.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    And this is only first week of the year…

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Okay, then why does he continue to fail so spectacularly?

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    TIL that Pedophile morality is between nuclear war and destruction of humanity and peace.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    Misread that as "my own mortality", and thought he was poking the bear, so to speak.

    Fortunately, his power is also limited by the amount of time he has left. So, hypothetically speaking, if anyone wants to... finish his term early, it would certainly constrain his power.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    He's right. Without the Constitution, there's nothing holding him back.

    That's the entire problem, our government has ignored the Constitution for so long, they can't suddenly decide that it's now relevant and should be adhered to. They made it into a joke decades ago.

    The only thing stopping Trump is a no longer relevant piece of paper.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago*

    Die Völker haben die Regierungen, die sie verdienen.

    Los pueblos tienen los gobiernos que se merecen.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    John Roberts: yep, checks out!

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    oh my god someone put a bullet in this government, you need to fucking do something american citizens

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Someone almost put a bullet through his skull but missed sadly

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    L'etat, c'est moi.

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