Trump Says Asking Congress For Permission Is "Insulting"

This week, Donald Trump vetoed a piece of legislation that would have put limits on his powers and would have prevented the President from unilaterally launching an attack against a country like Iran. The President doesn't want any checks or limitations on what he can do, even though his actions are very clearly prohibited by the Constitution. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this. Link - https://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo... Become a member today!:    / @theringoffire   Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!:   / theringoffire   Find our merchandise at Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/rof-store Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel:    / theringoffire   Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook:   / ringoffireradio   Twitter:   / ringoffireradio   Google+: http://plus.google.com/11841583157319... Instagram:   / ringoffirenetwork   Follow more of our stories at http://www.TROFIRE.com Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Donald Trump understands that if you want to get things done, then by God you've got to do it yourself. And if you want to be a manly man, you damn sure aren't going to ask for permission from anybody, even if the constitution requires it. You see this week Donald Trump decided to veto legislation by partisan legislation that would have prevented him from launching a unilateral strike against Iran. Now, here's what happened. Back in March, you had the house of representatives vote on this legislation that would have limited Donald Trump's war powers, meaning essentially you can't launch a missile strike without approval from Congress because as the constitution says, only Congress can declare war and launch a missile strike would in fact be an act of war according to this legislation. You can't do this. We have to tell you you can do this. That was in March and April. Senate took up the legislation and thanks to a few non-insane Republicans who voted with the Democrats. It passed and then Donald Trump came through this week and he said, no, I'm going to veto this legislation. Which by the way is not surprising. He had said from the beginning he was going to veto it. What is a little surprising is his justification for it. He said, it is quote, very insulting for a president to have to ask Congress for permission to do something like that. It's very insulting. What Trump is actually saying is that the constitution itself to him is very insulting. That's what this is people. The constitution makes it very clear who has the power to declare war and even though the president of the United States is off, so the commander and chief of the armed forces, they cannot unilaterally decide that, Hey, it's time to do war. If Congress says, Hey, now you can go play war, then the president gets to call the shots and he can order missile strikes. He can do anything like that that he wants, but not until Congress gives him permission. Now, all of that changed in a post nine 11 world thanks to George W. Bush and the Republicans who controlled Congress and the fearful Democrats who were right along with them. They allowed the president to launch strikes like this through their legislation, the AUMF, because at that time we were a terrified country. We were scared. We gave up a lot of our freedoms. We, uh, pretty much did away with a lot of constitution through this legislation because we didn't think the president should have to wait by God. There were terrorists out there and we needed to take them out now, and the president, if he found a terrorist needed to bomb them right away. We couldn't wait for Congress to reconvene to have a vote on this. And then we just kind of forgot that that was a thing. And George W. Bush kept bombing and droning people, and Obama kept droning and droning and droning and droning people. And Trump has continued even more droning and bombing. And we just kind of said, all right, well, I guess this is just how it is now. But then earlier this year, when Trump decided to attack Iran, you had very smart and brave progressive members of Congress led by Ro Khanna, I believe at the time, who said on, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, guys, we probably need to end this. This is a dumb idea. Look what this man has done, pushed us closer to the brink of world war three how about we get rid of this? #rof #trofire #theringoffire #progressivenews