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“I’ve had a lot of wars of my own, I’m really good at war. I love war….”

– Donald Trump, Campaigning in Iowa, 2016.

“Yeah. There is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me. I don’t need international law.”

– Trump responding to a question from a New York Times reporter regarding any limits to his global powers, January 8, 2026.

“Nobody’s going to fight the United States militarily over the future of Greenland. We live in a world, in the real world, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

– Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller responding to a question from CNN’s Jake Tapper, January 5, 2026.

Donald Trump’s first term (2017-2021) was a disaster, culminating in an attempted self-coup, an attack at the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying the electoral votes of the 2020 presidential election. Trump’s bombast had no limits, and Insurrection Day demonstrated the horror of his actions. This led to clemency in his second term for nearly all of the Americans who stormed the Capitol, including such key organizers as Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Torrio. Clemency was offered last year on Trump’s........

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