It’s too bad Donald Trump isn’t the least bit interested in history . . . or in anything factual, for that matter. Because even he might appreciate the irony of two items that popped up in today’s column of “This Day In History” at History.com.

July 28, 1868. 14th Amendment adopted. Yes, folks . . . on this date, 157 years ago, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was officially adopted following its ratification by the required three-quarters of U.S. States. And in case you’ve been out of school long enough to have forgotten the details, this is what is enshrined in Section 1 of that Amendment:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” [Constitution of the United States, constitution.congress.gov.] [Bold emphasis is mine.]

And lest anyone try to convince you that the restrictions refer only to the individual State governments, and not to the Federal government, you might remind them that the first sentence applies to everyone — even the President — and that it cannot be circumvented without passage of another amendment by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress.

Now, about those unconstitutional ICE raids and deportations . . .

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And how about this one:

July 28, 2016. Hillary Clinton accepts Democratic nomination for president. It’s been nine years, and Trump is still blaming then-President Barack Obama for trying to fix that election in Clinton’s favor — even now accusing him, with the gleeful assistance of head cheerleader and renowned mean girl Tulsi Gabbard, of “treasonous conspiracy.” [Emily Brooks and Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, July 28, 2025.]

But Trump conveniently ignores at least two facts:

First, even his Republican cohorts in Congress realize that the current phase of his ongoing, jealousy-driven witch hunt against Obama will never stand up in a court of law, since it is no more than an attempted distraction from Trump’s own problems with the Jeffrey Epstein debacle; and

Second, Trump himself, backed by a Supreme Court ruling in 2024, has covered his own substantial a** by seeing to it that former presidents retain immunity from criminal prosecution even after leaving office for actions within the scope of their executive power. Or is he now going to claim that that only applies to Republican presidents?

And finally, one more reminder and a word of advice to the hypocrite-in-chief:

You won that 2016 election. Let it go.

Just sayin’ . . .

Brendochka
7/28/25