# The argument that Trump will do whatever he wants and no one can stop him is really fucking boring

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**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\
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> [@Buck\_Godot](#):
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> Except that this “strawman” is precisely what this thread is about.

It’s not a strawman. Here is an example of a discussion where a poster was trying to insist that Trump can literally just ignore the law. He’s unstoppable.

> [@The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues/1010068/560):
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> Or he and his minions can just ignore all that. You keep talking as if laws are magical spells of compulsion.

Obviously this is fantasy and the poster was called out in that thread but that’s just one example of this sort of thing coming up. A strawman implies that nobody has ever advanced that argument, but that’s false.

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