Critics rounded up Donald Trump on Sunday for comparing himself to Napoleon in “dictatorship.” Social Media Posts It reflects the French emperor's claim that “those who save their country do not violate the law.”
The post came at the end of another turbulent week early in Trump's second presidency. Meanwhile, Acolite questioned the legitimacy of making a series of rulings to stop his administration's offensive seizure or dismantling the federal government's institutions and budgets.
His Some rebellion of those orderswho ordered funding to restore funding to institutions such as the National Institutes of Health, has led to several of the president's opponents declaring a constitutional crisis.
“He is the most lawless president in US history,” U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich wrote in the Guardian on Wednesday.
“This is weird. In the government system, it's up to the court to determine whether the president is using power “legally” rather than the president. ”
Trump set his position in a tweet posted on Saturday afternoon Golf Round At his Florida resort. As internet detectives quickly discovered, the quote is a version of the phrase Due to Napoleon “Celui Qui Sauve Sa Patrie Ne Viole Aucune Loi,“Translation: “Who saves your country doesn't violate the law.”
Another version has arrived 1970 film WaterlooRod Steiger declares Emperor on a rough ride on the French Constitution and stars as a dictator who pursues world domination before his uppuppupance in the battle of extreme 1815, when the film's title was derived.
The senior Democrats led the president's criticism. Virginia Sen. Tim Kane, a fellow running member of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election that Trump won, told Fox News that the White House occupation was not an order to ignore the courts.
“The president has the powers, but the president must follow the law,” he said.
“There's this law, but the Empowerment Act says that when Congress allocates dollars for a specific purpose, the president says, “Yeah, I don't like it. I'm going to spend this money, but with that money, there is no.”
“So, so far, there have been a lot of successful cases. They pass the Court of Appeals, but many of the president's extreme enforcement actions that hurt people are now being challenged in court.”
The administration has at least 70 nationwide, from attempts to eliminate birthright citizenship to freezing federal grants and funds, and access to sensitive computer systems and data by informal entities, according to the Associated Press. faces a lawsuit.
Trump's wrecking ball approach comes from deeper invasions into federal agencies by Elon Musk's so-called “Doctors of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) since taking office since January 20th, and the latest layoffs of a huge number of employees It continued.
Sunday, Bloomberg Reported a new wave of fire Health Department agencies, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Other institutions where the workforce is reduced are Ministry of Homeland Security, Food and Drug Administrationthe US Forest Service and National Park Service, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Department of Education.
Critics are shouting from many important taxpayer-funded services, particularly in healthcare, support for veterans, and military and defense spending, which is a counter-finance finance that is beneficial for private companies, including those owned by Musk. I believe this will accompany a fall in the target wind.
Musk, the world's wealthiest person and Trump Acolyte to be awarded the status of “special government employee,” has called on the administration to “remove the entire institution.”
“I don't like the fact that Donald Trump is shutting down the government as we talk about,” Kane told Fox.
“He says he wants to close the Department of Education and reduce the USAID staff to 250. That's a shutdown that has not been permitted by Congress, contrary to the law.
“My anger is who they are hurting. I don't like unelected officials, those doj guys, Post information categorized on their website. People should not go wild through offices that categorize information. ”
The administration's decision to ban Associated Press journalists from their oval offices and Air Force 1 has created more confusion as it refused to comply with Trump's executive orders attempting to rename the Gulf of Mexico the US Gulf.
The White House said that Legal Geographic Name Changes”. The AP noted that while the agency serves international audiences and recognizes Trump's order, it will continue to refer to the waters with globally accepted names.
in statementAxios said the right of news organizations to report how they thought it was appropriate was “a bedrock of free press and durable democracy.” Nevertheless, he said he would use the name of the American Gulf, as “mostly our viewers are based in the US compared to publishers with an international audience in the US.”
The Atlantic View What the AP should have avoided was nausea. “The cave is now to surrender on constitutional issues. But this is a battle that Trump is clearly pleased with, especially from the extent to which he is worse humiliated to the public interest and the rule of law. “He said.
Meanwhile, economic headwinds continue to emerge for the fledgling Trump administration as analysts prepare to impose new tariffs on trading partners that they predict will lead to international trade wars and job losses. Government figures show that inflation rose to 3% in January despite Trump Promising during the election campaign That price “decreases and they fall faster.”
By Thursday, the message had changed. “Prices could rise slightly in the short term,” Trump said when he decided on a tariff plan before pledging to fall again at one point.
