The Anthony Cumia Show - June 25, 2025


The Constitution and War Powers ｜ 06-22-25


Episode Stats


Length

7 minutes

Words per minute

113.98

Word count

894

Sentence count

85

Harmful content

Toxicity

6

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Hate speech

5

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Summary

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Trump strikes Iran, and it's all over the internet. What does that have to do with the Constitution? And why does it matter if it's legal or not? Plus, FanDuel introduces a new feature that keeps your bets in until the end of the match.

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00:01:00.100 Listen, all you New Yorkers.
00:01:02.620 You ain't taxi.
00:01:04.020 Okay, do you want to look around?
00:01:05.300 This is the 77 WABC
00:01:08.380 minicast.
00:01:10.460 There are a couple of more
00:01:11.760 great politicians
00:01:13.620 and, of course, the news, and
00:01:15.900 what they're telling you
00:01:17.720 at this point is that
00:01:19.920 Trump and company
00:01:22.260 has thrown away the constitution how many times during trump's administration so far have the
00:01:30.520 democrats uh dubbed him having thrown away the constitution stepped on it i use it as toilet
00:01:39.280 paper when i'm out of paper on my golden toilet that's what they uh make of uh donald trump that
00:01:47.260 He throws away the Constitution.
00:01:50.060 There's a couple of clips here.
00:01:51.800 Here's the lovely and talented Jasmine Crockett talking about how it's unconstitutional that Trump did not inform Congress before declaring war, I guess is how they feel, what he's done.
00:02:13.640 An airstrike on Iran.
00:02:16.500 on let's listen to uh jasmine oh you don't have the jasmine crockett bit oh what happened there
00:02:22.480 you see thought i sent that one well uh then i'll i'll just i'll read the pelosi bit because it's
00:02:30.540 pretty much the same thing tonight the president ignored the constitution ignored it by unilaterally
00:02:39.300 engaging our military without
00:02:41.020 congressional authorization.
00:02:44.020 I join
00:02:45.300 my colleagues. Who are
00:02:47.280 your colleagues, Nancy?
00:02:49.260 Drunks at the local gin
00:02:51.200 mill? Those are
00:02:53.260 her colleagues.
00:02:55.200 People that
00:02:56.300 get insider information
00:02:59.000 at the stock market to
00:03:01.200 make gazillions of dollars
00:03:03.500 after
00:03:05.140 having information you're privy to?
00:03:08.100 Hmm. Are those
00:03:09.260 your colleagues i join my colleagues uh in demanding answers from the administration on
00:03:17.280 this operation administration operation which endangers american lives and risks further
00:03:22.780 escalation and dangerous destabilization escalation destabilization of the region well this and
00:03:33.820 Crockett said the same thing, only she added in a few y'alls and mm-hmm.
00:03:40.460 But it's this thought that because Trump made these airstrikes in Iran,
00:03:49.880 that somehow he thwarted the Constitution by not informing Congress beforehand.
00:03:58.840 Well, there are many laws.
00:04:01.600 I see people tell me, don't hit the bottom of the mic stand, and I do it.
00:04:05.900 I've got to keep my hand away.
00:04:07.040 I'm listening.
00:04:07.940 I listen to you people.
00:04:11.360 Yeah, there isn't a rule, a law, that says that the president can't, on his own accord,
00:04:22.200 as commander-in-chief of the military, take military action.
00:04:26.720 He has to inform Congress within 48 hours of whatever military action he's doing, which he absolutely did.
00:04:38.540 He got in front of the American people after it happened.
00:04:41.940 And I assume Congress was watching.
00:04:46.020 And this is totally legitimate, totally legal.
00:04:49.140 There are many instances.
00:04:53.280 Reagan.
00:04:54.280 Yes.
00:04:55.640 Operation. 0.97
00:04:56.720 Well, El Dorado Canyon, those were my Libya strikes. 0.99
00:05:02.920 Remember back in the day?
00:05:04.880 Reagan would do that.
00:05:06.620 No declaration of war.
00:05:09.240 George H.W. Bush, Operation Desert Storm.
00:05:12.420 The Iraq invasion was a U.N. resolution.
00:05:16.960 No formal war declaration.
00:05:20.060 So even that, for how huge that was, it didn't fall under that.
00:05:26.720 Bill Clinton, Operation Deliberate Force.
00:05:31.060 That's what I forced.
00:05:32.280 Yeah, we get it.
00:05:33.200 Scar, the whole thing.
00:05:34.740 And the Bosnian airstrikes.
00:05:36.760 You would have thought the United States was at war with Bosnia.
00:05:41.700 And then the Kozobo airstrikes, Bill Clinton in 99, Operation Allied Force.
00:05:49.740 Somalia.
00:05:51.300 You might recall that debacle.
00:05:53.480 It's a great movie.
00:05:55.320 Black Hawk Down.
00:05:57.640 2001, George W. Bush, invasion of Afghanistan.
00:06:02.180 That sure looked like a war to me, but it didn't.
00:06:06.360 It fell under the AUMF.
00:06:09.820 AUMF, get over here.
00:06:13.720 But no declaration of war.
00:06:16.320 2003, George W. Bush, initial Iraqi airstrikes, part of the broader invasion.
00:06:22.340 Barack Obama, Operation Odyssey, dawn.
00:06:26.720 We got, like, what do we have?
00:06:30.260 Midnight Hammer.
00:06:31.840 Trump has Operation Midnight Hammer.
00:06:34.020 And Clinton or Obama's Operation Odyssey Dawn.
00:06:40.560 This is a beautiful operation.
00:06:42.820 Picture Odyssey in dawn, the rising light of the sun.
00:06:51.020 Donald Trump, Syrian airstrikes, response to chemical attacks, 2017 and 18.
00:06:56.720 And then Sleepy Joe, Sleepy Joe, 2024, Joe Biden strikes against the Houthi rebels and Yemen airstrikes that went on many, many times in 2004 during his entire administration. 0.99
00:07:12.760 So when these idiots get out there and talk about how he needed to have some congressional approval, get out of here. 0.97
00:07:23.180 it's the only reason by the way that there wasn't a leak these people didn't know the 1.00
00:07:30.600 democrats didn't know and they got blabber mouths and this went off without a hitch 1.00
00:07:36.560 and no one knew it was happening because these democrat idiots and even republicans in congress 1.00
00:07:44.020 were not told this was happening so plug the leaks and maybe you'll be privy to the info next time 1.00