Posted on 04/25/2025 2:03:05 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
President Donald Trump defended his use of the power that comes with the presidential office, denying that he is “expanding” it while maintaining that he is “using it properly” in an interview on his first 100 days as the 47th president with TIME.
Trump, who will have served 100 days of his second term on April 30, gave the extensive, bombshell interview to the outlet from the White House on Wednesday.
The interview started off with a pointed question from TIME senior political correspondent Eric Cortellessa and editor-in-chief Sam Jacobs, who asked, “Why do you think you need more power?”
“Well, I don’t feel I’m expanding it. I think I’m using it as it was meant to be used,” Trump replied. “I feel that we’ve had a very successful presidency in 100 days. We’ve had people writing it was the best first month and best second month, and really the best third month. But that you won’t know about for a little while, because it takes a little time in transition.”
Going on to bring up his widely-publicized actions to impact international trade with tariffs, the president said he has used his power to reset the “table”:
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Will be read by hundreds.
Time Magazine employs some really stupid people.
Trump has not expanded any powers and arguably by moving to attempt to abolish agencies Trump is slimming powers down. These things if abolished would be moved either to Congress or to the States, or the people directly.
Exactly what the Founders envisioned.
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