Guardian of the Constitution:
James Madison or Donald Trump
Renee Parsons
It is a good bet that when the majority of Americans cast their votes in the 2024 Presidential election, there were expectations that President-elect Donald Trump would abolish the ‘deep state’ rather than become its ally; as a ‘peace president’ Trump would end the Ukraine war at his earliest convenience. There might have been an expectation that Trump policies would be in sync with Constitutional rights dedicated to freedom and liberty.
If that last point sounds familiar, it should – it was the basis for the Founding Fathers who labored, fought and died to create ‘a more perfect Union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, to provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the Blessings of Liberty” as they established the Constitutional Republic that remains celebrated today around the world.
Fast forward almost 250 years, there is ample evidence that the Trump White House continues to exhibit no basic obligation to defend the country’s Constitutional heavy weights like First Amendment protections and its Bill of Rights both of which include explicit guarantees of individual freedom and liberty against governmental overreach.
MAGA voters may experience an uncomfortable loss of credibility as the Trump Administration relinquishes control of foreign policy to Zionist domination allowing its alliance with Israel to undermine the essential role of the Constitution in every federal government objective.
Here is a brief synopsis of that which President Trump remains clueless:
As a student on his way to the New Jersey College (later Princeton University) James Madison came upon several Baptist Ministers who were jailed because of their religious preference. That may have been the beginning for the young Madison to devote himself to multiple freedoms which grew into creation of the US Constitution and a timeless Bill of Rights.
With the blockade and surrender of Gen. Cornwallis’ British army at the Battle of Yorktown in October, 1781, the American Revolution successfully concluded its eight year war for Independence. That war was led by General George Washington with a scruffy Continental Army while the Treaty of Paris was negotiated by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and John Jay in 1783 which legally recognized the existence of the United States of America.
As a result of the Revolutionary War victory, the Constitutional Convention reconvened in Philadelphia (May-September) 1787 to reassess the original Articles of Confederation which had been approved in 1775. The Convention continued to formulate, debate and revise the Articles as the delegates recognized they were on the threshold of establishing a new international system of government to be directly accountable to the American People.
During the Convention, James Madison, a principle architect of the original Articles, took precise day-to-day Notes of the debates which constitute the only ‘minutes’ in existence of the historic event.
From Madison’s thorough and detailed notes, we can determine that the predominantly strong central government advocates were serious minded delegates from all thirteen colonies. They were united by a pragmatic compromise while creating the legal framework for what became a transformational document with explicit guarantees protecting fundamental individual freedoms against government interference.
Recognized as Father of the Constitution, Madison introduced the Bill of Rights to the First Session of the House of Representative in June 1788.
To facilitate public support for adoption of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights added ten Constitutional amendments which set an international standard for civil liberties with its First Amendment cherished in the vanguard of world acclaim; First in the protection of free speech, religious choice, freedom of the press and assembly with the right to lobby government.
“Congress shall make no law respecting any establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Madison’s notes confirm there were no narcissistic blowhards in attendance at the Constitutional Convention to take credit for himself or dominate the debate.
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Fast forward 250 years as unexpected opposition to the revered First Amendment continues to intensify as an illustration of the President’s noncompliance with the Constitution as the Trump Administration creeps towards authoritarianism in the name of anti-semitism against pro Palestinian students.
As the President’s fidelity for the continued Zionist attacks on Gaza, multiple American universities have experienced funding cuts because of pro-Palestinian demonstrations including ideological deportation of foreign-born students or student editorialists.
The Federal government cancelled $400 Million in funding for Columbia University because of its alleged failure to address Trump-defined anti semitism amid the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza.
A recent court decision identified an ‘impermissibly chilled’ protected speech by university professors and students who were in support of Palestinians. The Court opined that the “President’s conduct violated the sacred oath of a president to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” as his administration represented a ‘full throated assault on the First Amendment.”
In a related matter infringing on the First Amendment, the Administration submitted a Compact for Excellence in Higher Education to nine academic institutions which would adopt ten reforms in exchange for preference in federal funding.
Some of the ‘reforms’ could require a substantial readjustment beyond its current operational agenda such as abstention from certain political/social events, review by government agencies like the DOJ, DHS, Treasury and Education with limits on attendance of foreign students/endowments/biologic and sex preferences.
To date, all but one of the universities have declined participation in the Federal guidelines.
In a separate setback for the First Amendment, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued new press credential rules at the Pentagon. Refusal to sign the agreement would risk being penalized for routine newsgathering activity like requesting information from a source without explicit authorization as well as access for Pentagon personnel at public events. Hegseth is a former part time FOX News employee with no specific foreign policy or federal government experience.
From the Guidelines 17 pages: “DoW information must be approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official before it is released, even if it is unclassified” which also stated that “journalists who report on news outside of the explicit commands of the Pentagon could be deemed “a security or safety risk.”
In what was described as an effort to ‘regulate a ‘very disruptive’ press, failure to sign the agreement led to dozens of national media journalists turning in their access badge, packing up their desks and walking out of the Pentagon – to the detriment of a ‘free’ press and an informed American public.
At issue is the ability to release classified or unclassified information that Secretary Hegseth had approved for release which drew a ‘condemnation’ from the National Press Club citing the “Pentagon’s unprecedented move to strip dozens of journalists of access, a sweeping action that strikes at the heart of press freedom and public accountability.”
As National Press Club President Mike Balsamo summed up “This is a direct assault on independent journalism at the very place where independent scrutiny matters most: the U.S. military.”
The new Pentagon press corps willing to sign the nondisclosure agreement include the Gateway Pundit, the National Pulse, Human Events, podcaster Tim Pool, Just the News website founded by journalist John Solomon, Frontlines by Turning Point USA and LindellTV, run by “MyPillow” CEO Mike Lindell.
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Switching gears to the Fourteenth Amendment: in a massive display of power project, US President Donald Trump moved a Navy strike group of eight warships, a submarine and destroyer into the Caribbean Sea under the guise of accusing Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of narco-terrorism and corruption.
In the pretense of conducting a transformational foreign policy, the Trump Administration conducted at least five extra-judicial attacks off the Venezuelan coast killing over thirty locals in small motor boats in international waters in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Added to the Constitution in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits depriving “any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” with many of its individual equal protection rights found in the Bill of Rights.
In other words, each of the Venezuelan victims of Trump’s use of lethal force in international waters without a legal basis were deprived of the right to prove their innocence in a court of law and in violation of international law which amounts of extrajudicial execution as well as a violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter which asserts that covert ops may not be used or threaten force against another’s sovereignty or political independence.
Both Constitutional Amendments linger in the background like a forgotten foreign language in the Trump Administration with no conscience, lacking any moral judgement to conduct willful murder in international waters while offering no explanation or evidence and without legal justification.
When questioned by a reporter about the need for Congressional approval of war, Trump casually dismissed the question as if he had no responsibility as President to follow the law:
“I don’t think we’re going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we’re just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. Okay? We’re going to kill them. You know, they’re going to be, like, dead. Okay?”
No, Mr. President it is not OK.
When a reporter suggested that “Maduro offered every thing in his country,,all the natural resources, offering mediation.” Asked why Trump refused Maduro’s offer,
Trump responded ‘He’s offered everything. You’re right…You know why? Because he doesn’t want to fuck around with the United States.”
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While silence from Congress assumes a deafening roar as if there are no conscientious Members willing to confront Trump’s attacks on the Constitution and its Rule of Law:
“Whatever happened to “ Senator” Rand Paul? He was never great but he went really BAD!. I got him elected TWICE (in the great Commonwealth of Kentucky), but he just never votes positively for the Republican party, He’s a nasty liddle’ guy much like “Congressman” Thomas Massie, aka Rand Paul Jr., also of Kentucky which I won three times in massive landslides), a sick Wacko, who refuses to vote for our great Republican Party, MAGA, or America First. It’s really Weird!!!”
and with regard to US Representative Tom Massie who is being primaried in 2026 by a Trump candidate
“Third Rate Congressman Thomas Massie,, a weak and pathetic RINO from the great Commonwealth of Kentucky, a place I love, and won SIX TIMES, must be thrown out of office, ASAP. ..He only votes against the Republican party, making life very easy for the Radical Left.”
The President’s responses continue to raise questions about the condition of Trump’s cognitive health.
Renee Parsons has been an elected public official in Colorado, an environmental lobbyist with Friends of the Earth and a staff member in the US House of Representative in Washington, DC. Before its demise, she was also a member of the ACLU’s Florida State Board of Directors and President of the ACLU Treasure Coast Chapter.