Pres. Trump tinkers with executive apparatus to promote one-man monarchy!

Today, President Trump inaugurates his campaign for the 2020 Presidential election.  The first term of his Presidency has been marked by his attempts to establish a monarchical reign in the US, using aspects of the US Constitution as his springboard.

That the US Constitution can enable a President to act as a monarch I knew since I worked on fitting features of the US constitution for Russians who wanted it as a springboard for generating their own Constitution in the late 1980s.  Indeed, aspects of the US Constitution were incorporated into that of their own, a Constitution still in effect in Russia today.  In this item, however, I want to point to devices President Trump has made use of to place the Executive Branch of the US government in such paramount position as to approximate a monarchical form of government--seemingly, the only feature not of the US Constitution in its original form that blocks creating a monarchy being the Congressional hold over the budget:  Congress must approve budgetary appropriations of the Executive departments.

Nonetheless, in the US, the Executive branch has whittled away the will of the other two branches of the US government--the judiciary and the Congress.  (I leave it to historians of the US to demonstrate this conclusion.)

The features especial to Trump's move to make the Executive the overarching branch are (1) his use of the executive order, thereby circumventing the Congress to pass legislation establishing national policies and rules, and (2) his recent deployment of the tariff to gain foreign country compliance with his policies--The latter to "convince" the Mexican government to open its country to those immigrants seeking asylum from their own country of origin; or to convince them to return to their homeland.

What is more, he has even made inroads to erode Congress' control over the US government's budgeting.  He has learned that he can cite some emergency existing in the land that causes budgetary plans to be revamped--as in the need he cites to complete building a wall to separate the US and the Mexican border.

Currently, he and his executive staff are trying to convince Congressional Republicans and his loyal voters that Iran is the government-culprit in attacking ships in Middle-eastern international waters.  Republicans. since the Reagan era, have detested the Iranians and sought means to encourage the overthrow of its government.  And, the drum beat goes on...to this day, even from the days of Cheney and the Second Iraq war.