Trump Just Declared Himself Dictator – "L’État, C’est Moi"

Trump Vests All Executive Power In Himself

• Trump Declares The “Policy Of the US” Via Executive Order – Arrogates And Over-Rides Congress’ Legislative Powers

• Executive Order On The “Unitary Executive” Cites Supreme Court Support

[Update below]

I am now reading the incredible barrage of Trump Executive Orders – which are broader in scope and far more detailed than the Project 2025 Agenda.

But before getting into the policy and program issues they raise, we need to keep it simple and emphasize structural concerns.

Trump just did completely unconstitutional things via Executive Order and Executive Emergency Powers:

• He assumed the policymaking power for the United States:

Example:

Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to:

[(a)]

(b) efficiently and effectively maximize the development and production of the natural resources located on both Federal and State lands within Alaska;

That Executive Order not only illegally creates policy, but the policy stated (i.e. “maximize development and production“) conflicts with current law.

• He consolidated all Executive power in himself:

Example: (emphasis mine)

As the Constitution makes clear, and as the Supreme Court of the United States has reaffirmed, “the ‘executive Power’ — all of it — is ‘vested in a President,’ who must ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.’” Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 591 U.S. 197, 203 (2020).

As a result, the US is no longer a Constitutional democracy and Trump is a Dictator.

This can not stand.

More to follow.

[End Note: and under Trump's "emergency" declarations, compliance with almost all laws is waived, as determined by Trump!

This is Trump's version of Hitler's Enabling Act - with the even worse abuse in that he did it via Executive power!

Trump has also threatened to impound and/or reallocate funds appropriated by Congress (e.g. Inflation Reduction Act, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, et al), thereby over-riding Congress’ exclusive power of the purse. I haven’t yet read all of the Executive Orders to determine whether he did so on day one.

[Update: 9/27/25 - Here we are, 8 months later, and all of these warnings have been realized by Trump’s gross abuses of power.

Regarding my predicted usurpation of Congress’ budget powers via impoundment, yesterday, in another “emergency docket”, the Supreme Court 6-3 signed off on that. In a strong dissent, Justice Kagan clearly framed the issue and blasted the right wing majority (emphases mine):

This emergency application raises novel issues fundamental to the relationship between the President and Congress. It arises from the refusal of the President and his officers to obligate and spend billions of dollars that Congress appropriated for foreign aid. Prospective beneficiaries of those funds challenged the decision to withhold them as an unlawful impoundment—essentially, a Presidential usurpation of Congress’s power of the purse. ~~~ end update]