President Trump's social media post over the weekend,

he who saves his country does not violate any law, implying that he is above the law,

triggered alarm bells from experts who were already concerned about the legal and constitutional boundaries

tested in President Trump's first few weeks in office.

Kim Lane Sheppily is the Lawrence S. Rockefeller

professor of sociology and international affairs at Princeton University. She studies the rise

and fall of democratic governments. Omna spoke with her earlier as part of our new series on democracy.

Kim Lane Sheppley, welcome back to the news hour. Thanks for being here.

Very nice to be here.

So many of President Trump's actions we've seen so far that are already being challenged

on the basis of their legality or constitutionality, these are things he promised to do,

said he would do as president.

He would say now this is what voters want him to do, and so he's doing it as fast as he can

through executive orders. How do you see it? Well, it's true. A lot of these are things he promised,

but democracy isn't just about getting elected and meeting promises. You have to fulfill the

promises if you're going to do them in the proper legal way. So what he's just been doing

is signing a lot of executive orders. And a lot of these executive orders directly conflict

laws passed by Congress. They directly conflict with constitutional provisions. And that's not the

way that you can do it. This is also a president who has praised strong men in other countries, authoritarian leaders

in other nations, people like Vladimir Putin, in Russia, Jaire Bolsonaro, in Brazil, Viktor

Orban, in Hungary.

As someone who has lived in both Russia and Hungary, are you seeing patterns here that mirror what you saw there?

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