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With his rule by decree at home and expansionist agenda abroad, Donald Trump has transitioned from the President of the United States into Emperor of America

In his second inaugural speech, US President Donald Trump promised to usher in a “golden age”. In his first month in office, he has surely ushered in the age of empires.

From the President of the United States, Trump has transitioned into the Emperor of America as he is ruling by decree at home and reshaping borders abroad like the colonial powers of the 18th and 19th centuries.

If there were any doubts about how Trump saw himself, the White House quashed it with a post on Wednesday that showed Trump in robes and a crown.

The Founding Fathers of the United States set up the Congress and Judiciary as separate branches of the federal government equal to that of the Executive, but the separation of powers is now essentially dead. While the Republican-controlled Congress has been reduced to a rubber-stamp body, the Supreme Court is in Trump’s pocket — it has a 6:3 conservative majority and three of those six conservative judges are Trump’s appointees.

The result is that Trump has not stretched the limits of Executive powers with maximalist interpretations of law, he has bulldozed longstanding legal precedents and even constitutional provisions.

Trump’s emperor-like rule is not just limited to domestic agenda. In a throwback to centuries gone by, he has sought to expand American territory by annexing Denmark’s Greenland island, Panama Canal, the nation of Canada, and Palestinian enclave of Gaza Strip. For Panama and Greenland, he has threatened their governments with invasions.

Vice President JD Vance said that “judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power”, Musk suggested that Trump has a right to do whatever he wants to do as he has been elected, saying “if the will of the president is not implemented and the president is representative of the people, that means the will of the people is not being implemented and that means we don’t live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy”, and Trump himself has stated he is above the law.

“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” said Trump in a post on X.

With friend in Moscow, Trump carves world in spheres of influence
In 1884-85, the United States, major European powers, and the Ottomon Empire gathered in Germany’s Berlin to decide the future of millions in Africa. On a map spanning 5 feet, they carved out Africa for themselves. The borders that they decided at the time —with no involvement of Africans— continue to divide the continent to this day.

With Russian leader Putin, Trump appears to be carving out similar spheres of influence today in the world.

Gone are the days when the United States sought to topple communist dictatorships abroad and promote democracy, garnering the US leader the title of the ‘Leader of the Free World’. In New America, Trump has brought back imperialism from the 19th century when the United States expanded westward, sought overseas presence in the Pacific Ocean, and carved out spheres of influence.

In a revised version of ‘Monroe Doctrine’, Trump appears to have come to an arrangement with Putin where the United States would withdraw from Europe and focus on the Western hemisphere. That would explain why he has left Europe and Ukraine to their fate in the wake of unprecedented aggression from Russia.