Trump Calls For Termination Of Constitution, Selflessly Volunteering To Lead A Nation No Longer Burdened By One

The Filing

PALM BEACH, Fla. Citing a fraud that has been rejected by more than 60 courts, every relevant state election authority, and his own former Department of Justice, ex-President Donald J. Trump on Saturday generously volunteered to lead the United States under a terminated Constitution, sparing the document the difficult work of applying to him.

In a post on his social media platform, Trump explained that "A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution," a clause that constitutional scholars were quick to note does not appear anywhere within the Constitution. The former president went on to offer the country a choice between two options he presented as equally ordinary, proposing that the nation either "throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER" or simply hold "a NEW ELECTION," framing the dissolution of constitutional government as a reasonable administrative menu.

"What people are not appreciating is how much the President is giving up here," said one source familiar with the former president's thinking, describing the proposal as an act of personal sacrifice. "A lesser man would insist on following the rules. He is offering to do away with them entirely, on everyone's behalf, at no charge. That is the kind of selflessness you simply cannot teach."

Trump grounded the appeal in the wishes of the framers themselves, adding that "Our great 'Founders' did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections," a sentiment he extended to mean that the men who wrote the Constitution would have supported suspending it. The timing, aides stressed, was prompted by the recent release of internal communications from a social media company regarding a 2020 news story, a development the former president characterized as so significant that it retroactively voided the founding charter of the United States.

The post drew swift rebuke from the White House and a rare measure of bipartisan alarm, with House members introducing a resolution condemning the call and legal observers noting that an oath to "preserve, protect and defend" the document tends to sit awkwardly beside a proposal to terminate it. Most Republican officials declined to comment at all, a silence that strategists described as the party's considered position on whether the Constitution should remain in effect. Two days later, Trump posted that the "Fake News" was lying about his having called to terminate the Constitution, a clarification issued on the same platform that still displayed the post in which he called to terminate the Constitution.

At press time, the former president was reportedly reviewing the remaining articles of the Constitution to determine which ones he had always supported.

Who Benefits

§Donald J. Trump, who proposed voiding the founding document of the United States as a remedy for having lost an election, and who established that the Constitution is binding only on people other than himself.
§The Stop the Steal and election-denial movement, which received, from the most powerful figure in its orbit, an explicit endorsement of its central goal: discarding the 2020 result by any means available.
§Trump Media and Truth Social, the platform that hosted the post, the walk-back, and the post the walk-back denied existed, harvesting attention from each.
§Trump's small-dollar fundraising operation, which converts every fresh controversy into another round of urgent appeals to supporters.
§Authoritarian leaders abroad, who gained a former American president publicly arguing that inconvenient election results justify suspending a nation's constitution.
§Republican officials who chose silence, who avoided the discomfort of stating, on the record, whether they believed the Constitution should continue to exist.

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