Preserve, protect, and defend

Maybe this is just a minor semantic nit, but would someone please remind the President that he took an oath not to protect America, not to protect American families, not to protect American citizens? He took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Listening to him, he seems confused about this. He seems to think that it's his job to protect America, and that it's okay to toss the Constitution in pursuit of this goal, that in fact, it's his obligation to ignore the Constitution in pursuit of protecting Americans.

Protecting the Constituion is more important than protecting America. You may argue that without America, we have no constitution, but surely, without the Constitution, we have no America.