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Philip Low
Donald J. Trump: Are you an enemy of the constitution?

I. Elon Musk’s Grok AI has claimed you are the president who has been the greatest enemy of the constitution and of the American people and that you should be removed from office. Is this correct?

II. By imposing tariffs on America’s allies, are you not in blatant violation of article I, section 8 of the constitution?

III. When you threaten or ignore habeas corpus, which requires the government to provide a public reason to detain or imprison people, are you not in blatant violation of article I, section 9, clause 2 of the constitution?

IV. By selling World Liberty Financial tokens in which you and your family have a claim on 75 per cent of revenues, and inviting your biggest financial backers to the White House, and accepting a $400 million jet from Qatar for both official and private use, which will cost the American people multiple times more to adapt to the presidency, are you not in blatant violation of article I, section 9, clause 8 of the constitution, the emoluments clause?

V. By defunding entire government agencies and the parties they fund, including universities, impounding or misusing congressional funds, are you not in blatant violation of article I, which gives congress the power of the purse, and of article II, section 2, clause 2, the appointments clause, as the Department of Government Efficiency was never approved by congress and Elon Musk was never confirmed by the Senate?

VI. By claiming, via executive order, that only you and the attorney-general are responsible for the interpretation of the law, are you not in blatant violation of article III of the constitution, which establishes the judicial branch?

VII. By targeting the media and students for their free speech, including ex post facto, are you not in blatant violation of the first amendment?

VIII. By having federal agents search people’s private communications and break into their vehicles or homes without a warrant, and damaging them, are you not in blatant violation of the fourth and fifth amendments?

IX. By sending aliens, as well as United States citizens, without any due process, to detainment centres, in the US and overseas, where they will not have consular or legal representation – places without adequate food, water, medicine and sanitation, places where a number of them have already died – and by summarily designating people protesting at your largest benefactor’s company as terrorists, are you not in blatant violation of the fifth and eighth amendments, and a blatant threat to human rights?

X. By targeting law firms, via executive order, which have represented your rivals, are you not in blatant violation of the first, the fifth and the sixth amendments?

XI. By using the National Guard and the Marines against Americans, are you not in blatant violation of the 10th amendment and the Posse Comitatus Act?

XII. By targeting birthright citizenship, are you not in blatant violation of the 14th amendment, section 1?

XIII. By considering running for a third term, are you not in blatant violation of the 22nd amendment?

XIV. By doing a Tesla infomercial at the White House, are you not in blatant violation of the Code of Federal Regulations, section 2635.702, regarding the use of public office for private gain?

XV. By pardoning domestic terrorists who attempted to overthrow the results of an election, are you not in blatant violation of the Electoral Count Act?

XVI. By destroying records of USAID, an organisation that theretofore was investigating the alleged use of Starlink terminals by Russia in Ukraine, are you not in blatant violation of the Federal Records Act?

XVII. By stating that you do not know if you are to uphold the constitution, by flouting two Supreme Court decisions, including a unanimous one, by harassing, threatening and arresting judges and congress members conducting oversight, by removing qualified personnel on the basis of colour, gender, sexual orientation or identity, or creed, as well as inspectors general and military legal officers of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, by trying to block the courts from enforcing contempt orders against the executive branch, and by declaring your admiration for Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman and having America’s chief executives line up to shake and whitewash his hand, indelibly dyed by Jamal Khashoggi’s blood, are you not making your disdain for the law and justice blatantly clear?

XVIII. By invoking fake wars and invasions, are you not in blatant violation of the Alien Enemies Act?

XIX. By flirting with the Insurrection Act without justification, are you not blatantly endangering the security and welfare of foreigners and US citizens alike?

XX. By terminating medical and food assistance, by disembowelling Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and depriving up to 12 million people of their health coverage, are you not endangering the health of your citizens, including seniors and veterans who have richly contributed to this country?

XXI. By having Anton Postolnikov, a Putin ally, save Trump Media, are you not blatantly beholden to Vladimir Putin?

XXII. By extorting Ukraine for minerals and refusing to give it military guarantees, as well as extorting America’s allies, including Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, and threatening their sovereignty, are you not deliberately destabilising the West, acting like Vladimir Putin’s puppet and being a blatant threat to the post-World War II US-led world order?

XXIII. Should American people not be concerned about Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, stating earlier this year that you are “rapidly changing [US] foreign policy configurations” and that “this largely coincides with our vision”?

XXIV. If you are indeed giving aid and comfort to Vladimir Putin, a foreign enemy, are you not a traitor and are you not in blatant violation of article III, section 3 of the constitution?

XXV. If you are America’s Hitler, as J. D. Vance previously observed, and if you pose a danger to the constitutional republic, to human rights and to the world order, should congress not immediately act and peacefully but swiftly and decisively remove you, a man regarded by most Americans as a “dangerous dictator”, from office?

Given that you incited an insurrection against the US on January 6, 2021, as confirmed by the majority of each house of congress – 232 to 197 in the House and 57 to 43 in the Senate, as well as by the Wisconsin Supreme Court and anyone whose IQ reaches room temperature – and given that you have not been cleared by two thirds of each house to run again, you were in point of fact ineligible to run for office in 2024 per section 3 of the 14th amendment of the US constitution.

To be crystal clear, in Trump v Anderson, the Supreme Court did not dispute that you engaged in an insurrection. Nor did it argue that your “acquittal” – the failure by the Senate to ceremoniously impeach you by a two thirds majority, to remove you from office after you had already vacated office – absolved you from that crime and its consequences.

What it asserted was that states could not enforce the 14th amendment, section 3, against federal officeholders or candidates, and that only congress “enjoys power to enforce the Amendment through legislation pursuant to Section 5”.

Accordingly, it is imperative that congress sees to it that you are promptly cleared as president by a resolution backed by a two thirds majority in both chambers, or that legislation is passed by these margins in each chamber, followed by an additional ratification by three quarters of the states, which would be the higher threshold required to amend the constitution and remove this hurdle.

Regardless of whether one agrees with your agenda or actions, and how disgraceful and odious you might be to true followers of the constitution and of the word of God, which you pretend to be on both counts, this would at least make your presidency legal beyond doubt.

In the absence of the above or of a clarification by the Supreme Court, you are, legally speaking, little more than an uncouth, lawless squatter, with multiple bankruptcies, convictions and divorces, a draft-dodging adulterer, accused sexual predator and friend to a paedophile, a failed businessman peddling Bibles and cars on the White House lawn, eroding the neighbourhood’s property values – and along with that, America’s confidence in the rule of law, and the world’s faith in America’s word and its moral leadership.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, you are, according to Grok, the president who has been the greatest enemy of the constitution and of the American people and you should be removed from office.

It is correct.

PS: Grok has also claimed that you are in the Epstein files.

Dr Philip Low is the chairman, chief executive, founder and supermajority owner of NeuroVigil, a former adjunct professor at the Stanford School of Medicine, a recipient of the MIT TR35 Top Young Innovator Award, the inventor of the iBrain™ and the author of The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness. Dr Low is formally regarded by the US government as an individual of “extraordinary ability”, including in neurotechnology and AI – fields in which he has advised the US military.

This article was first published in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on July 19, 2025 as "Donald J. Trump: Are you an enemy of the constitution?".

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