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https://www.politicususa.com/2019/08/23/white-house-trump-hereby-order.htmlPosted on Fri, Aug 23rd, 2019 by Jason Easley
White House Has No Explanation For Why Trump Thinks He Can Hereby Order US Companies To Do Anything
The White House has no public explanation for why Trump thinks that he can order US private companies to stop doing business in and with China.
Reporters are trying to get an explanation, but here is what theyve gotten out of the White House so far:
Eamon Javers
@EamonJavers
White House aides right now offering no explanation for why President Trump believes he can hereby order American companies to do anything. Also, officials have no information about what the president may or may not be announcing this afternoon, per his Tweet.
Translation: They have no clue what is going on in Donald Trumps head.
No president has the power to order US companies to do anything. It was decided by the Supreme Court in 1952 that the president does not have this kind of power. Trump has tanked the stock market with his tweets and shown that he is incapable of being responsible with presidential power.
Trump cant order companies to do anything. The White House has no idea what he is talking about, and the country is left totally confused by an unhinged president who cant handle the power of the office responsibly and needs to be replaced in November 2020.
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)Takket
(21,425 posts)To join to Dems in calling for impeachment. Im sure that is coming very soon since that is a major concern of theirs.
rampartc
(5,265 posts)I also expect the federalist society to produce an old letter from john adams claiming that the original intent was for the president to be the ceo in chief during trade wars (or something more convoluted than I can imagine. )
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)I wish I were sure it'd come soon. If he threatened to hurt them bad, and they could be sure of replacing with Pence short term or a challenger in 2020, though...
Itm, I think many have to be far more afraid of us, at least all the RWers. We're the regulatory leash people. Trump's term is over in a year and a half, but regulations can take decades and long-term investments of billions of dollars to remove.
madaboutharry
(40,153 posts)Trump is mentally ill and out of control.
Look at where we are. The President of The United States is on his way to the G7 and instead of having confidence that he will represent the interest of the nation, Americans are shuddering at the thought of what crazy shit he is going to pull that will further alienate our allies and humiliated the country.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)i'm hoping that he breaks for good and all under the condemnation that he is gonna take this weekend.
it's gonna be ugly as hell, tho.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Why don't you just tell them that Trump can't order American companies to do anything? The only people still running around the White House at this point are the indestructible cockroaches like Kellyanne Conway and wet-behind-the-ears snot-nosed punks who still think a White House gig is going to look good on their resume.
real Cannabis calm
(1,124 posts)grumpyduck
(6,199 posts)whose parents have let him get away with stuff and therefore thinks he can get away with anything.
I place the blame squarely on Congress.
duforsure
(11,882 posts)All businesses to promote and donate to anyone but him for office. They're losing money because of him , so it'll be even more clear by their support for other people , and definitely not trump. He'll try to hurt them if they don't bow down to his demands by making them criminals using Barr, or destroying their businesses. Putinq did this in Russia that way.
Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)American business particularly the executives are remarkably stupid when it comes to supporting people that in the mid and long term are bad for their business.