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Trump's Waterloo: “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law." SAD! [1]
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Date: 2025-02-15
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The phrase reportedly originates from the 1970 Napoleon film starring Rod Steiger called Waterloo where Napoleon Bonaparte is seen justifying his dictatorship
x Here is the clip from ‘Waterloo’ which ends with the same line Trump used this morning - it is speech in which Napoleon asserts, “I did not usurp the crown,” because he picked it out of the gutter and the people put it on his head:
[image or embed] — Isaac Dovere (@isaacdovere.bsky.social) February 15, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Political pundits and media from both sides of the aisle blasted President Donald Trump Saturday for a post on Truth Social and X declaring, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”
Trump first posted the statement on Truth Social before sending the same message to his followers on X.
“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” he wrote, with no quotation marks, attribution, reference, or context on Saturday, possibly referring to those arguing his mass firings were in violation of the law. The remark comes after weeks of working with billionaire Elon Musk and his DOGE office to slash the federal bureaucracy through cost-cutting that included layoffs which many argue were politically motivated.
Critics on social media were quick to suggest that Trump wants to be a “dictator” following his new comments.
When a military commander told Napoleon Bonaparte that he felt uncomfortable being so much taller than his Emperor, Napoleon allegedly replied: “You may be taller, but I am greater” (Donker & Burmanje, 2012, p. 53).1
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