Former French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte holds a lofty place in the minds of many world leaders, and President Donald Trump appears to be no different.

“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” Trump posted on Truth Social and X on February 15.

The White House official account on X also posted the social media message alongside the 47th Oresident’s photograph.

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Various iterations of the phrase are often attributed to the French general who crowned himself emperor in 1804 after ending the national bloodshed and reigning in the increasingly radical leftist French revolutionaries.

Some have condemned this statement. Sen. Adam Schiff (D., Calif.) responded to Trump on X with, “Spoken like a true dictator.”

Trump’s Former Vice President Mike Pence appeared to take a veiled jab at  Trump’s post. The unsuccessful 2024 presidential contender reshared an essay he had written over a decade ago titled “The Presidency and the Constitution.”

In this document, he wrote: “A president who slights the Constitution is like a rider who hates his horse: he will be thrown, and the nation along with him. The president solemnly swears to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. He does not solemnly swear to ignore, overlook, supplement, or reinterpret it.”

However, some of Trump’s supporters appeared to embrace Trump’s statement.

Elon Musk reposted Trump’s message on X with a string of U.S. flag emojis.

 

Jack Posobiec reposted Trump’s message, adding, “America will be saved” and “What must be done will be done.”

This exchange comes amid a national legal battle over Trump’s agenda that has raised questions about the jurisdiction of the federal courts.

Some district courts have issued injunctions to thwart the cuts that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has made in programs such as the United States Agency for International Development to eliminate perceived obsolescence and waste. On February 15, a federal judge in New York extended a temporary order stopping Musk and DOGE from accessing the Department of Treasury’s payment systems.

“DOGE’s access of BFS [Bureau of Fiscal Services] records puts vast amounts of funding for the States and their residents in peril and endangers the PII [personally identifiable information] of States’ residents whose information is stored on the payment systems,” plaintiffs, such as New York Attorney General Letitia James, have argued in court filings.

Vice President JD Vance disagrees with the court orders. On February 9, he posted on X that “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”

Benjamin Weingarten at The Federalist reposted clippings from Justice Clarence Thomas’ opinion in Trump v. Hawaii (2018), in which the Supreme Court Justice argued that universal injunctions are unlawful.

“[Universal injunctions] at best ‘boil down to a policy judgment’ about how powers ought to be allocated among our three branches of government … But the people already made that choice when they ratified the Constitution,” wrote Thomas.

“In sum, universal injunctions are legally and historically dubious. If federal courts continue to issue them, this Court is dutybound to adjudicate their authority to do so,” Thomas added.