The best interests

Yes and I’m considering revoking Trump’s membership in the human race. I suspect he’s a mustelid.

Trump says he’s considering revoking Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship.

I know nothing about Rosie O’Donnell apart from what I’ve just read in the past few minutes. The name is familiar but I thought she was that other Ros-something person. Rosie Duffield is my idea of a Rosie.

“Because of the fact that Rosie O’Donnell is not in the best interests of our Great Country, I am giving serious consideration to taking away her Citizenship,” Trump wrote. “She is a Threat to Humanity, and should remain in the wonderful Country of Ireland, if they want her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

The mind of a child – a younger child every day. US citizenship is not dependent on being in the best interests of our Great Country, whatever that’s supposed to mean. Nothing is dependent on that, except perhaps the continued employment of people who work in the government – like everyone who works for Trump for instance.

And even if it did mean something, he can’t just up and do it, the way you can up and tidy the kitchen or feed the cat.

Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at Georgetown Law, said Saturday that Trump’s threat of “coercive expatriation” was “patently unconstitutional.”

“For good reasons, it is difficult to denaturalize a U.S. citizen and even harder to expatriate one,” Vladeck wrote in April. “Congress has provided for only a handful of circumstances in which the executive branch is empowered to pursue such a move; and the Supreme Court has recognized meaningful constitutional limits (and an entitlement to meaningful judicial review) even in those cases.”

And Trump should be sharply aware of that, and disgusted by the very idea that a president could cancel someone’s citizenship because he’s in a snit, let alone that a president could publicly fantasize about doing so.

Trump has called O’Donnell “a real loser,” “crude, rude, obnoxious, and dumb,” and “a pig” over the years.

Ironic, isn’t it, when he is so very much all those things himself? When they are literally at the top of the list of accurate descriptors of Donald Trump?

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