For the Record: Where's My Article 2, Dude?

Via SamuraiDVD.

Trump has this thing he likes to say about Article 2 (to you and me, the section of the US Constitution that describes the qualifications for and duties of the presidency) that gets weirder and weirder, most recently:

TRUMP: "Then I have an Article 2, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president."

(Article 2 does not in fact empower the president to do whatever they want.) pic.twitter.com/qIFP1AbHw6

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 23, 2019

Last week, I think I found the source of this

He has no clue what Article 2 is. Not even what document it belongs to. It's a confused memory of something he saw on Fox.

— O'er the Airports We Watched (@Yastreblyansky) July 12, 2019

in an article of April 2018 by the unspeakable Hans von Spakowsky arguing that Trump had a constitutional right to fire Mueller if he wanted, and the very Fox segment he could have gotten it from

Fox ran a story on it https://t.co/dyJeaugOaZ

— O'er the Airports We Watched (@Yastreblyansky) July 13, 2019

It seems clear that my initial speculation, that he doesn't in fact know what an Article 2 might be or where you'd look for one if you wanted it, that he sees it as something like the secret book everybody's looking for in a kungfu romance and he's trying to bluff everybody into thinking he's acquired it and could annihilate his enemies any time he chooses, looks more and more likely to be right.

Cross-posted at The Rectification of Names.