How Did The President Gain The Powers Of A King?
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The Lever
4.8 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're not going to be a dictator, are you? |
| 0:01.7 | I said, no, no, no, other than they won. |
| 0:04.0 | How did Donald Trump turn the presidency into a king? Well, it didn't start with him. It was the goal of a decades-long master plan. When the president does it, it is not illegal. I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. Where they won't act, I will. I'm David Serota from The Lever. On our new season of the award-winning master plan podcast, |
| 0:22.3 | we uncover the stealth plot to create an all-powerful president, or as some call it, |
| 0:27.7 | a unitary executive, the unitary executive, the unitary executive. Our journalists reveal the |
| 0:33.2 | hidden scheme to eliminate checks and balances, crush democracy, and turn government by the people |
| 0:38.8 | into government by one man. I have the right to do whatever I want as president. |
| 0:44.4 | Check out master plan season two, the kingmakers. Visit masterplanpodcast.com or search |
| 0:50.1 | master plan in your podcast app to start listening right now. |
| 1:03.2 | When Donald Trump was inaugurated like all presidents, he swore an oath to preserve, |
| 1:05.0 | protect, and defend the Constitution. |
| 1:10.7 | Instead, Donald Trump has decided to swerve, deflect, and abandon the Constitution and treat it like a terms and |
| 1:11.6 | conditions page. |
| 1:12.9 | I'm Professor Corey Brett Schneider. |
| 1:14.6 | And I'm deeply unqualified comedian John Fugleson. |
| 1:17.4 | We'd like to invite you to listen to the Oath in the Office podcast where every week we |
| 1:21.9 | interpret the Constitution and hold Trump accountable to his oath. |
| 1:25.8 | It's a podcast that offers real insight on how to take action against tyranny and mayhem, |
| 1:31.3 | because despair is not a strategy. |
| 1:33.3 | We'll hold him to his pledge, despite his threats to democracy and the law itself. |
| 1:39.3 | It's a podcast that's all about hope for what a real democracy should look like |
| 1:43.3 | from an esteemed, |
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