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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

"I have the right to do anything I want to do."


The governor of Illinois opposes Trump's suggestion that he might send the National Guard to Chicago.  At his Cabinet meeting, Trump said:
He said -- you know, because everybody knows Chicago is a hellhole right now, everybody knows it. It's not like he's saying Chicago has much better numbers, right? Well, what's much better? You mean 100 people are going to be murdered, It's going to be much more than that. So, I would have much more respect for Pritzker if he'd call me up and say I have a problem, can you help me fix it? I would be so happy to do it. I don't love -- not that I don't have -- I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States.

If I think our country is in danger, and it is in danger in these cities, I can do it. No problem going in and solving his difficulties

In February, he posted an apocryphal quotation from Napoleon:  "He who saves his Country does not violate any Law." 

In 2019, he said: "Then I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as President."