He says the Constitution is “great,” like it’s a golf course he once drove past. He once called the Declaration of Independence a “beautiful letter”—full of “unity and love.”
In a May 2025 Meet the Press interview, Kristen Welker asked Donald Trump if he, as president, had to uphold the Constitution. His answer: “I don’t know.” When pressed about whether due process applies to both citizens and noncitizens under the Fifth Amendment, he said again, “I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know.” A few weeks earlier, when NBC News asked him if he was looking for ways around the two-term limit, he just smiled: “There are methods.”
Trump isn’t defying the Constitution—he’s indifferent to it. To him, it’s just something reporters and lawyers talk about when they want to slow him down.
This got me thinking. How do you explain the Constitution to a guy who doesn’t read, doesn’t ask, and doesn’t get it? Who thinks “due process” is a scheduling issue and “checks and balances” is a casino game?
Then it hit me. The Art of the Deal.
Here it is Donald-style.
“The Art of the Deal”
Look, the Declaration of Independence was a business and power move.The colonies were getting bled dry—taxes, regulations, foreign troops in their streets—all while Britain raked in the profits. The colonists had no real say, no leverage, and no protection of their assets.
We were stuck in a terrible deal. Britain was calling the shots, taking the profits, and giving us nothing but taxes, regulations, and redcoats. And King George? Total disaster. A failed CEO running a bloated empire into the ground—micromanaging from across the ocean, ignoring local leadership, bleeding the colonies dry.