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That's not how this works. We are a country of laws. The president is not a constitutional monarch.

• skissane 2y ago
  > The president is not a constitutional monarch. Not everyone agrees on that: "Great Britain is a republic with a hereditary president, while the United States is a monarchy with an elective king" (The Knoxville Journal, 9 February 1896)
• krapp 2y ago
  >The president is not a constitutional monarch. The president has carte blanche to create laws through executive order, nullifying the legislative branch. The president has carte blanche to pardon Federal crimes, nullifying the judicial branch. The president has sole command of the military. Going through Congress is a formality at best. If he says we're at war with Greenland tomorrow, we're at war with Greenland tomorrow. And per SCOTUS, nothing the president does while in office in their official duties can be prosecuted as a crime. And none of that "balance of powers" stuff means anything when party loyalty and loyalty to one person transcends the boundaries of office. The president not be a monarch in theory, but in practice power has been accumulating in the executive branch for decades. The American people fundamentally fear and mistrust government, but they worship celebrities. They want to be ruled, if not by a king, by a CEO in chief.
• rayiner 2y ago
  You have to understand that phrase in the context of the tripartite system of government. We do not have a system of “legal supremacy,” where the lawyers overseeing compliance with the law are effectively a fourth branch of government above all the other branches. The framers were very concerned about the “who watches the watchers” situation.