Phony?

Chief of Emoluments

The so called president recently confirmed, yet again, his complete lack of understanding of the U.S. Constitution, and the very idea of laws or rules as they might apply to him, by referring to the emoluments clause of the Constitution as “phony.”

Nothing about the Constitution can be “phony.” The Constitution is the considered wisdom of the persons who founded the Republic. We have since found various important points on which we disagree with them, but we have addressed those disagreements, mostly, by amending the Constitution, which it expressly allows. No one has ever even suggested any amendment that would have any impact on either of the emoluments clauses.

They are not “phony.”

Article I, Section 9, paragraph 8 of the United States Constitution reads, “[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

Article II, Section 1, paragraph 7 of the United States Constitution reads, “The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.”