Almost one month into the Trump presidency, and the Constitution and the entire section on the various branches of government and how they work together are still missing from the White House website.
This is no small thing.
This omission, deliberate or inadvertent, speaks volumes about the priorities of this current administration. It also explains a lot about the legal mindset that is driving the Trump train, which continues to push forward with a theory of unitary executive power.
You know what is not driving the Trump government? Any sense that it is bound by the rule of law, i.e, the US Constitution. As Trump recently declared, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”
Then again, Trump has never made any pretense of his aspirations to rule as a strongman. As the Washington Post reports:
In 2017, he claimed “an absolute right to do what I want with the Justice Department.” In 2019, he claimed that Article II of the Constitution gave him “the right to do whatever I want as president.” In 2020, he said he could override state and local public health orders related to the coronavirus pandemic by saying: “When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that’s the way it’s got to be. It’s total.” In 2022, he said that purported voter fraud in the 2020 election “allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.” In 2023, he mused that he would be a dictator, but only on Day One of his presidency. And a year ago, he argued that presidents should have total immunity from criminal prosecution, even for “EVENTS THAT ‘CROSS THE LINE.’ ”
Listen, when someone shows you who they are, believe them.
Then again, maybe the majority of Americans just don’t care about the Constitution anymore.
Hellbound and Down 