The contrast couldn’t be clearer.
While Democrats spent years painting President Trump as the man who would torch the Constitution and defy the courts, a pair of videos posted by Townhall Media flip the script and show exactly who the real threat to the rule of law was from the start.
In one clip, the current President sits in the Oval Office and accepts an unfavorable Supreme Court ruling.
A reporter asked Trump, in the context of a few rulings earlier today that went against him, whether he would accept the Court's decision on birthright citizenship, which is expected tomorrow.
"Well, I guess I'll have to accept it," he responded. "It's the Supreme Court, so I'll accept it."
In the other clip, his predecessor stands at a podium and brags that, even though the Supreme Court blocked his student debt forgiveness scheme, they didn’t stop him from simply ignoring the ruling. Biden tells a crowd of supporters how he circumvented the highest court in the land.
"The Supreme Court blocked me from relieving student debt," he boasted. "But they didn't stop me."
TRUMP after SCOTUS ruling against his agenda: I guess I’ll have to accept it
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 29, 2026
BIDEN after SCOTUS ruling against his agenda: Supreme Court blocked me, but they didn’t stop me. pic.twitter.com/nb3d4UBTIr
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Who else is old enough to remember Democrats setting their hair on fire over the idea that if Trump somehow managed to find his way back into the Oval Office, that he'd run roughshod over the Supremes and simply ignore/defy their rulings?
And here it turns out that was Biden. It's always projection with the Democrats, isn't it?
Beyond the student loan stuff, the Biden team caught a lot of heat for pushing back against or working around Supreme Court rulings in other areas, too. Take the eviction moratorium—after the justices had already said the CDC didn’t have the power to keep extending it through the pandemic, Biden went ahead and signed off on yet another one anyway, basically daring the Court to slap it down again.
They did.
JUST IN: Supreme Court blocks Biden administration's latest ban on evictions https://t.co/QNAC9E5u0I
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 27, 2021
On affirmative action, after the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling that ended race-based admissions at colleges, many critics jumped on the Biden Education Department’s revamped guidance. They suggested it basically gave schools quiet ways to keep pushing diversity goals without running afoul of the decision.
Amazing how Supreme Court rulings only apply to Republicans. https://t.co/lffHVnBLVQ
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) April 8, 2024
One president openly accepts the Supreme Court’s word even when it hurts his agenda, while the other bragged about finding ways around it. Democrats spent years warning that Trump would be the one to torch the rule of law and defy the justices.
Turns out the real threat to the separation of powers and democracy came from their side all along.
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