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BumRushDaShow

(147,532 posts)
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 04:11 AM 19 hrs ago

'No sir, you are not': Maine newspaper issues Trump civics lesson as he threatens state

Source: Raw Story

February 22, 2025 4:23PM ET


An editorial in a Maine newspaper took direct aim at Donald Trump Saturday after the president issued a direct threat to the state. The Bangor Daily News’ editorial board issued its scathing putdown after Trump directed comments to the state’s Democratic governor, Janet Mills, as she attended a White House luncheon Friday.

He hit out because Maine has refused to change laws regarding transgender athletes in student sports. “You’d better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funding at all if you don’t,” he told her. When she hit back with, “I’m complying with state and federal laws,” Trump told her, “we are the federal law.”

“No sir, you are not the federal law,” the newspaper schooled him. “Congress, not the president, writes and amends the laws of the United States. Congress, not the president, allocates funding to federal agencies and programs. Federal courts are upholding these core tenets of our democracy as Trump seeks to undermine them.”

The editorial board had nothing but praise for Mills, and how she politely refused to back down to Trump’s attack. “The governor’s message was simple: Maine will follow the law,” the board wrote. “She didn’t get into her personal feelings about transgender athletes or any other American. Because her personal feelings don’t matter. The governor, like the president, is responsible for upholding laws that protect the rights of all Mainers and all Americans.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/maine-governor-trump/?utm_source=superhead



Link to Bangor Daily News EDITORIAL - Janet Mills shows how to stand up to Donald Trump
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'No sir, you are not': Maine newspaper issues Trump civics lesson as he threatens state (Original Post) BumRushDaShow 19 hrs ago OP
K & R SunSeeker 19 hrs ago #1
Excellent creon 14 hrs ago #9
Yes, courage is contagious. nt SunSeeker 10 hrs ago #13
Hope creon 6 hrs ago #25
And who was it DENVERPOPS 6 hrs ago #23
one was Collins creon 6 hrs ago #24
She knows she gets elected by the Trumphumping DENVERPOPS 6 hrs ago #26
yes creon 4 hrs ago #31
Excellent editorial! hlthe2b 18 hrs ago #2
LOVE THIS. Great respect for Gov. Mills and Maine. Hekate 17 hrs ago #3
KNR niyad 17 hrs ago #4
QUICK - WHEREZZAT ? Alberta Bound 17 hrs ago #5
updated meme neohippie 17 hrs ago #6
Ohhh, that is great! Easterncedar 16 hrs ago #7
Now there's an image for the ages! (nt) Paladin 16 hrs ago #8
It's ours to make real... BadgerMom 10 hrs ago #14
I would have said things differently. "Put your threats on a nice paper, put it in an envelope.... chouchou 13 hrs ago #10
Kicking. MontanaMama 11 hrs ago #11
Sounds great, but jayschool2013 11 hrs ago #12
Our country decided we didn't want a king back in 1776 IronLionZion 8 hrs ago #15
"La Etat, c'est moi" Tanuki 7 hrs ago #16
Excellent! Wild blueberry 7 hrs ago #17
Great Ksout 7 hrs ago #18
Superb!! Great courage and style! wordstroken 7 hrs ago #19
Excellent reply Jean Genie 7 hrs ago #20
This is what COMMON SENSE looks like... ultralite001 7 hrs ago #21
K&R ReRe 6 hrs ago #22
HELL, YES!!! CTyankee 6 hrs ago #27
Impotent, let's see if we can get that word trending, because that's what he is Walleye 6 hrs ago #28
Trump tells Maine's Democratic governor, 'We are the federal law' LetMyPeopleVote 5 hrs ago #29
Those spineless RW male governors KT2000 5 hrs ago #30
Yeah "king" Shit.. you're Not the the Law Or the Cha 3 hrs ago #32
Nice to see the press speak out! tonekat 2 hrs ago #33

DENVERPOPS

(10,918 posts)
26. She knows she gets elected by the Trumphumping
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 05:00 PM
6 hrs ago

Republican Voters, and she gloats over her Position and benefit/perks........

Alberta Bound

(7 posts)
5. QUICK - WHEREZZAT ?
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 05:55 AM
17 hrs ago

.....QUICK......SOMEONE........where's that photo of the young Chinese fellow standing to block the infantry tank ???

....apt I think.

chouchou

(1,617 posts)
10. I would have said things differently. "Put your threats on a nice paper, put it in an envelope....
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 09:38 AM
13 hrs ago

...roll it up and ram it up your fat ass"

MontanaMama

(24,249 posts)
11. Kicking.
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 12:15 PM
11 hrs ago

Any act of resistance, not matter how small is significant. Resistance at minimum pisses them off. Many acts of resistance slows them down on what they are breaking. Any act of public resistance can encourage others to resist.

IronLionZion

(47,673 posts)
15. Our country decided we didn't want a king back in 1776
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 02:51 PM
8 hrs ago

did MAGA forget or they didn't pay much attention in school?

Ksout

(11 posts)
18. Great
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 04:16 PM
7 hrs ago

This is what we need to stand up to Trump. Can the attorney general of Maine do anything about this threat, too, to discourage other retorts on Trumps part like that?

Jean Genie

(430 posts)
20. Excellent reply
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 04:28 PM
7 hrs ago

I like this VERY VERY much! We need to ALL speak up, stand up to the orange buffoon and his minions, and NEVER STOP believing that people power can and will overcome! COURAGE, my friends!

ReRe

(11,218 posts)
22. K&R
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 04:36 PM
6 hrs ago

Damn correct! Stupid needs to learn a thing or two about Civics, i.e. government, which most of the rest of us of his age DID learn in HIGH SCHOOL! Get yourself a large print pocket copy of the Constitution and carry it with you everywhere you go and read it. You will learn that a Democracy is not a Corporation.

If it's a business, it's one by, of, and For The People and not you.

LetMyPeopleVote

(158,572 posts)
29. Trump tells Maine's Democratic governor, 'We are the federal law'
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 06:12 PM
5 hrs ago

The president picked a fight with Gov. Janet Mills over transgender student-athletes. It didn’t go well for him, though the exchange was illuminating.
https://bsky.app/profile/hategop.bsky.social/post/3lirxqnoc2c2s

Dictator/Dicktator Trump tells Maine’s Democratic governor, ‘We are the federal law.’
The president picked a fight with Gov. Janet Mills over transgender student-athletes. It didn’t go well for him, though the exchange was illuminating.



https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-tells-maines-democratic-governor-are-federal-law-rcna193237

At a White House event for the National Governors Association, for example, the Republican apparently thought it’d be a good idea to claim that there were two female boxers in the 2024 Olympics who were transgender. As he really ought to know by now, this was not true, though there was little to suggest that he cared.

But as The Hill reported, that’s not all he said at the event.

President Trump and Maine’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills briefly quarreled Friday at a National Governors Association session at the White House after Trump told a meeting of Republican governors he would withhold federal funding from the state over its refusal to comply with an executive order on transgender athletes.


Unprompted, the president referenced his recent executive order on transgender student-athletes and said that he had learned that Maine intended to ignore his directive. He then asked if Maine’s governor was in the room.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iu4j537hox5huj4bwnwgub4z/post/3lipilq64qt2s?ref_src=embed&ref_url=https%253A%252F%252Fiframe.nbcnews.com%252FnikYoxO




When Mills spoke up, he asked her directly whether her state would comply with his demands. The two-term Democratic governor — who also served as Maine’s attorney general for several years — told the president she would comply with state and federal laws.

Trump replied, “Well, we are the federal law.”...

But of particular interest was his “we are the federal law” declaration. To be sure, Trump isn’t a lawyer, and he has never demonstrated even a rudimentary understanding of the limits of presidential authority. Whether he understands this or not, executive orders tend to be glorified press releases, not federal statutes.

Trump is free to sign these directives — though he assured voters he wouldn’t — but that doesn’t make them federal laws.

What’s more, the president’s “we are the federal law” assertion came just two days after Trump described himself as a “king,” which came just four days after the Republican similarly declared, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

Can a “L’etat c’est moi” claim be far behind?

KT2000

(21,197 posts)
30. Those spineless RW male governors
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 06:25 PM
5 hrs ago

continued to fawn all over trump after the exchange. What a collection of wimps!

Cha

(307,534 posts)
32. Yeah "king" Shit.. you're Not the the Law Or the
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 07:59 PM
3 hrs ago

GD "king".. . Stupid EGO driven Crock of Toxic Shit.

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