yeah. And the president can’t tell GM how much to pay their executives, nor can he appoint czars over everything with no congressional oversight, nor pull a trial of war criminals away from the military and into a civilian court...
Why that’s utterly out of the question!
Congress, stupidly, authorized him to do exactly this. You can make an excellent argument that Congress had no constitutional power to do so, but it wasn't a unilateral assumption of power by the president.
nor can he appoint czars over everything with no congressional oversight
The whole czar thing is overblown. A "czar" is merely a special presidential assistant. He has no statutory or legal authority other than what is delegated to him by the president. IOW, he can't do anything the president doesn't already have the power to do personally.
nor pull a trial of war criminals away from the military and into a civilian court
Commander in Chief of the military and chief law enforcement officer of the United States. He had every legal right to make this decision, regardless of how stupid I think it might be.
That's quite different from making the claim that a president has the authority to pardon an offender against a state law. Not to mention that politically he would never consider doing any such thing. Even most liberals would be appalled. Hyperbole can be fun, but it isn't very helpful.
Nor would he comment on a local CAMBRIDGE police matter either. Beer anyone?