WASHINGTON, D.C\u2014In a recent press conference, President Trump stirred considerable controversy with his claim to have discovered a so-called Constitution 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt lets me do whatever I want, basically,\u201d the president said. \u201cNobody ever talks about it. Constitution 2. It\u2019s an incredible thing.\u201d He described having stumbled upon the document during a recent stroll on the roof of the White House. \u201cIt was just sitting there\u2014can you believe that? Sitting right there on that\u2014on that really great, beautiful roof. One of the greatest roofs in the world, believe it or not, anybody will tell you, the White House roof. And I know roofs. Constitution 2. Boy, isn\u2019t that something? Really, it\u2019s something that we\u2019re looking at and something that, frankly, is a very big, beautiful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump told reporters that the newly uncovered Constitution gave the president broad powers\u2014\u201cbut only if he\u2019s a Republican\u201d\u2014including deploying the National Guard anywhere in the country, unilaterally setting tariff rates to \u201cnumbers you haven\u2019t even heard of,\u201d and ordering the construction of golf courses on federal lands for any reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked to comment on whether his administration would be allowing members of Congress, the press, or the American public to see this new Constitution, Trump simply glowered at the CBS News reporter until the journalist said, \u201cYes, sir. Sorry, sir. I was a naughty boy for asking, sir.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Legal scholars and historians who spoke with the Dealer<\/em> greeted Trump\u2019s claims with skepticism, noting that there has never previously been any indication of such a document\u2019s existence. \u201cBut if he says he\u2019s got it, idk,\u201d said one anonymous academic. \u201cLol.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a Democrat of New York, frowned emphatically upon learning of the president\u2019s claims. \u201cLet\u2019s just say it\u2019s not every day I frown to this extent,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In a post on Truth Social Wednesday evening, the president finally shared what he claimed was a photo of Constitution 2 but which was instead a seemingly AI-generated image of a document labeled Couniision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He described having stumbled upon the document during a recent stroll on the roof of the White House. \u201cIt was just sitting there\u2014can you believe that? Sitting right there on that\u2014on that really great, beautiful roof. One of the greatest roofs in the world, believe it or not, anybody will tell you, the White House roof. And I know roofs. Constitution 2. Boy, isn\u2019t that something? Really, it\u2019s something that we\u2019re looking at and something that, frankly, is a very big, beautiful thing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2089,"featured_media":7346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-8democracy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2089"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7347,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions\/7347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}