Analysis: Trump behaves as if he is the choice, whether he obeys the constitution

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The Americans learn how it is to live with a president who sees no restrictions on his actions and apparently feared that they will not pay for them.

In a flash of the latest political steps, legal challenges, comments and interviews, Donald Trump shows that he rejects the last restrictions on the moral and the long understanding of the public about how a president should behave.

In an interview with NBC's “Meet the press with Kristen Welker”, which was broadcast on Sunday on Sunday, Trump said, for example: “I don't know” when he was asked whether he had to maintain the constitution three months after flying an oath.

As always, Trump's attacks and expansive political initiatives seemed to destroy the normality and false enemies, while they create fear and the impression of unstoppable dynamics among his critics.

Trump also honors the supporters who are pleased about his attack on what they consider contemptuous and liberal-dominated political, legal, pedagogical, media and military institutions. Top adjutants argue that his extreme actions are justified by his election victory and his works – for example in his tribes of the southern border crossings.

Trump's behavior also indicates darker potential results of a second presidency, which is fueled by his conviction that after a second voting triumph that followed his despite personal legal problems and two attempts at attack, he has almost amazing power.

The administration repeatedly defies federal courts – in one case even the Supreme Court on the fate of a migrant without papers, the return of which the administration “facilitates”. Trump now has a huge executive power against institutions that he wants to silence, including law firms and universities.

And his feeling of personal omnipotence sometimes seems to lead the country to authoritarianism. He said on NBC that he did not end up with a third term in 2028 – as if it were a personal decision whether he followed the constitution that depends on the US democracy.

Trump's talent for Trolling also reflects his hybris and his striving for ultimate power.

A composed picture that he shared about the truth about himself in papal robes was certainly intended to upset critics. But the picture, an insulting Catholics who see the Pope the key to the kingdom of heaven as a guardian, is an knowing alluding to Trump's infallibility claims. It was also shared on the X -account of the White House, which means that one of the most extraordinary official documents that were ever published by the United States government.

And Trump's plan for a large military parade to celebrate the army's 250th birthday in June could be another sign that he adopted with dictatorship.

The event will probably go beyond the costs of the movement of tons of expensive troop formations and aircraft, at a time when the administration exploits the federal government to save money. Trump wanted such a spectacle since he took part in a Bastille day on France's National Day in his first term. But this parade is expected to take place in June on the head of the boss's birthday.

Monarchs have military commands for their birthdays, but the modern US presidents have got to avoid such personal exhibitions that blur the idea that troops serve the people in a republic and not an almighty ruler. The United States also had no need to boast its power over the type of propaganda jamborees, which was preferred by the leaders of the former Soviet Union and North Korea. But Trump said about NBC: “We have the biggest rockets in the world. We have the largest submarines in the world. We have the world's largest army.” He added: “We have the biggest weapons in the world. And we will celebrate them.”

This was characteristic of a growing administration – to imply that those who mutate in such presidential power are unpatriotic, hostile to military or humorless. This makes it possible to reject concerns about Trump's incessant effects for every symbol of sovereignty.

But Trump's power contracts can also bloom his political instincts.

While his tariff policy is intended to bring jobs and produce home and to lift working Americans, he is increasingly affecting their effects on normal people. This separation that other billionaires have shared in his cabinet could have risky effects on his own political assets and the Republicans in the case of intermediate elections, not to mention the economy.

For example, a few days after the warning, American children would have to be satisfied with fewer, more expensive dolls due to his trade war. In the NBC interview, Trump implied that the economy would be “ok”, even if it got into a recession. He also dismissed the effects of impending lack of supply chain on the population. “You don't have to have 250 pens. You can have five,” said Trump.

The effects of the China trade war go beyond pens and dolls. If there is no impending breakthrough, the US consumers lose access to many affordable and abundant goods such as sports equipment, shoes and clothing. This will exert enormous pressure on family budgets. Small companies based on the import of such products can now take the bust.

It is not the first time that Trump seems to be removed from the fights of ordinary families. He always insists that he has hired food prices for the cost of living in the 2024 elections. But every American buyer who goes to the supermarket himself knows that this is not true.

And Trump insisted in an interview with the time that “I have completed 200 deals” with nations who wanted to avoid tariffs. Despite the constant promise of impending trading packs that will change the US economy, the administration has not yet announced.

The question of the expression of the president in relation to reality is important and, due to Trump's earlier attacks on former President Joe Biden, assumes additional weight.

Such concerns are not alleviated in his NBC interview by a bizarre answer. “We lost $ 5 to $ 6 billion a day. Five to 6 billion,” he said to Kristen Welker and then explained his 145% tariff in China: “We did essentially trade relationships by creating so much tariff. And that is okay. We have become cold turkey. That means we don't lose.” In other words, Trump has restricted the trade deficit with China by the whole of the trade, a catastrophic option that could deeply scars the US economy.

The president comes with such rules because he learned from his first term and appointed new civil servants who do not challenge him. At a television festival of the sycopian last week, his cabinet members showed that they understand that their task is to praise him. And the republicans of the congress gave up their authority to check him.

“I do not want to reduce President Trump's leverage by undermining him,” said Jake Tapper from CNN on “State of the Union” on Sunday. “President Trump has a negotiating strategy, a style of negotiation. I think he throws the whole world out of balance.”

The democratic Senator Mark Warner said Tapper that the Republicans, although they were ready to buy in the public “Trust Trump” in public, were increasingly privately concerned. With regard to the attempts by the President, the secret service group, for example, too high, said Virginia's senator: “I let a member say:” Mark, they sound like our conscience. “I don't want to be your conscience. ”

Warner added: “I think we are getting closer to them and compete for them. … But the problem will be, how much structural damage will be before my Republican friends find their voice and voice, which they already say privately?”

President have even more power over foreign policy than at home.

And Trump plans to use it.

When asked whether he would use violence to fulfill his expansionist designs in Greenland, Trump said to NBC: “I don't rule it out. I don't say that I will do it, but I don't rule anything. No, not there. We need Greenland very urgently.”

The Arctic land mass is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark. So a US invasion would not simply be illegal. This would mean the violent annexation of land under the jurisdiction of a NATO member by the country, which was once the alliance's bulwark.

The Canadians, who are right in a choice that is shaped by Trump's demands, connect them as 51st state, will undoubtedly be relieved to know that they do not have to fear a US flash war. “I don't see it with Canada. I just don't see it, I have to be honest with you,” said Trump to Welker.

As with many wildest efforts by Trump, his followers argue that critics remove him from the context and ignore the genius of negotiations, which is behind his extreme positions.

It was up to date that Trump had excluded the use of violence against Canada. This alone shows how its second term in the long -term international, legal and constitutional norms inverted.