President Trump insisted there are “no limits” to his power when asked in a new interview about his takeaways from the Iran war.

The president was pressed by Axios’s Marc Caputo during an interview about whether he learned there are bounds to his power during the Middle East conflict.

“I haven’t learned that lesson yet,” he replied. “I know there are, but there are no limits. We defeated them totally militarily.”

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[–] 40 points 4 months ago (2 children)

At this point, I think most of the government - Republicans and Democrats alike - should be impeached and removed from office for completely failing to do their jobs, and thereby violating their oaths.

The President of the United States is bludgeoningly obviously deranged, and is not fit for office by any stretch of even the most fevered imagination. Any politician who pretends otherwise is grossly negligent, overtly lying, or both.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There's a very interesting line in this article, where he says that probably it's an unconditional surrender by Tehran.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    Algae has entered the chat

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    There is no limit to his madness!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure it can't really reach beyond his final breath

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Don't give them any ideas to "do things trump wanted post mortem" looks at letter written in crayon "see he said right here that he wants to be continue ruling from the grave by an ai recreation that's hosted in the White House basement"

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    he thinks that he's in an anime

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    [–] 19 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    Except for the failure part. It should read there's no limits to his failure. I'm going to go eat my trump steak now and study for my trump university class. Oh wait, those things failed.

    The rest of the article is correct, he hasn't learned his lesson yet. Malignant narcissists never do.

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  • [–] 32 points 4 months ago* (13 children)

    Term limits are a pretty good limit.

    His power ends in 2028, and then he's OURS.

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  • [–] 41 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Here's hoping that the law stops the guy who has never been stopped by the law

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Surely this time he will be held accountable!

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    It’s bad taste to make a former president accountable for their actions.

    Remember Nixon and Ford?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (4 children)

    Ford was Nixon’s VP and after it was clear that Nixon would be impeached he resigned and Ford became president and he completely pardoned Nixon.

    Ford became VP after Nixon’s original VP Agnew resigned and since he was the speaker of the house Ford got the job.

    So Ford was VP and president without being voted in for either role.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    The most basic check on the pardon power would be it cannot be used for anyone who is part of or formerly part of the executive branch. These pardons would have to come from Congress.

    At this point the Presidential pardon power should be removed, it has been used for so many corrupt acts it is not funny.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    These pardons would have to come from Congress.

    And maybe make some rule about how the same party cannot count as much. Because Republicans.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    What about his power to hold his bowels? We all know his limits there.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    Can’t open the Straight without begging and paying up

    Powerful as a bitch beggin for bitch snacks

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    A legend in his own mind. 😱

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    You surrendered.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    But the emails.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    He said before that it was his own morality that limited him. This statement is just further clarifying the previous one.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I love this part in Wuxia movies.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago*

    The limit will basically be if the right wing people turn on him because you guys aren't doing shit fuck all. The best that the left can hope for is for people on the right having a "come to Jesus" moment and wanting to stop him cause they will. Lemmy users can post about it when it happens

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    What's the meaning of probably unconditional surrender by Tehran ??

    My native language isn't English. Kindly be patient with me and explain it to me in an eli5 style. Thank you.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    "Unconditional surrender" is when there is an end to hostilities, and one side is so completely defeated that they agree to stop fighting without receiving anything in exchange. Then the winning side gets to make all sorts of demands on the loser and they must agree.

    The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War One is an example of this. Germany got punished hard in that document, which is widely believed to have set the stage for World War Two some twenty years later.

    In this case, though, the US agreed to also end hostilities in Lebanon (including and especially by Israel) and arrange for a whole lot of reparations to be paid. Those are concessions. The winning side in an unconditional surrender doesn't make concessions.

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    [–] 32 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I’m not sure if Trump’s brain farts really count as ‘world news’…

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  • [–] 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Apparently hasn’t the power to manage painting a pool blue and killing the algae.

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  • [–] 24 points 4 months ago

    "Trump says" is laziest garbage headlining bc he lies all the time

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Thankfully, lifespan is one

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    The flaking blue reflection pool paint would like a word.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    DOGE is long gone but it may take years or decades to recover. DOGE was an exercise is how weak and easily manipulated the Donvict is. Musk got pretty much everything he wanted out of DOGE. Mission accomplished. And Trumpepstein? He's still deluded into thinking DOGE made America great.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I have just the same amount of power as him. The only caveat is that not enough people believe in me.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    Well he does not appear to have any power over his bowels.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Unconditional if you don’t consider all of the conditions

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago

    Trump says there are ‘no limits’ to his power stupidity

    Fixed.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    There are no limits that he'll live to see.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I know there are definite limits to his continence or lack therof.

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    Enter the sandman 😪

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    [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    mojtaba khamenei and donald trump's faces superimposed on father helping grandfather meme

    "My power has no limits!"

    "Sure, gramps, now let's get you to bed."

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    I mean, if the other two branches of government refuse to utilize their powers to check him, then he may as well be telling the truth here.

    It isn't true, but we live in a post-truth reality now where saying something often and loudly is what makes it true.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    It's obvious to me that there are limits to his power to make people like him.

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