big speech at the end because he didn t care about the humans around him. he was on the aliens side. and all the aliens would have had to do was flatter him. joan, how is the constitution doing? you know, the constitution is okay, except what the founders failed to anticipate is that we would wind up with men and some women in congress who would be so compliant and refuse to take their jobs seriously and allow this president to walk all over them and also to violate the constitution from noon on january 20th, right? the emoluments clause, we all knew as it was happening that he is in violation. he is getting foreign payments. we don t know how much because he doesn t he has never shown us his taxes. and then it s proceeded from there. a week later, he imposes the muslim ban, which again is a constitutional violation of the establishment clause. you know, he pays no attention
you need to get a better congress. it s a lesson that americans failed to learn because we have so much emotionally invested in the presidency. if you think about as you laid out what the president does, sign bills he s sent by congress, appoint justices, order the government, the other thing the president has done, really going back to the very beginning, is sort of set the american ideal, explain the american ideal, sort of explain america to itself as the only elected official ostensibly elected by a majority of at least the states if not of the people, that is kind of his job. donald trump is the first president in my lifetime, probably in anybody s lifetime, who does not understand the american ideal. and even if he did, i m not sure he would explain it because all he does is talk about himself. i was thinking my team and i were talking about independence day, the film independence day. donald trump is if the bill paxton character was actually working with the aliens, as if he was