Donald Trump, however, seems to see Article II of the constitution, which lays out the president’s powers, as a blank cheque. He has a tendency to explain to friendly audiences, “I have the right to do whatever I want as president.

The President has signed an executive order which requires independent agencies to consult with the White House on priorities and performance standards.

Donald Trump has signed an executive order that could make him the most powerful president in history, using a controversial Constitutional law theory to potentially get his way.

T HEY HIT me and I hit them back harder and they disappear,” Donald Trump said in 2016, during his first presidential campaign, explaining an ethic developed in New York’s savage real-estate market. That ethic in a nutshell explains the early Trump administration’s torrent of attacks on the federal bureaucracy that Mr Trump believes,