You're not going to be a dictator, are you?

I said, no, no, no, other than they won.

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,

we uncover the stealth plot to create an all-powerful president, or as some call it,

a unitary executive, the unitary executive, the unitary executive. Our journalists reveal the

hidden scheme to eliminate checks and balances, crush democracy, and turn government by the people

into government by one man. I have the right to do whatever I want as president.

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The assignment with me, Audie Cornish.

The Oscars will be out, like the Golden Globes will be out.

There's a Super Bowl coming up with Bad Bunny.

Yeah. The start of the year every year is really a time where some of these water cooler moments kick off.

People really need anything that's galvanizing or hopeful.

You seem like you're embodying cringe right now.

Yeah, it's weird to see the cringe process running course through me in real time.

Listen to the assignment with me, Audie Cornish, streaming now on your favorite podcast app.

Right now we are living through some of the most tumultuous political times our country has ever known.

I'm David Remnick and each week on the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'll try to make sense of what's happening, alongside politicians and thinkers like Corey Booker, Nancy Pelosi, Liz Cheney, Tim Walts,

Katanji Brown Jackson, Newt Gingrich, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Charlemagne the God,

and so many more.

That's all in the New Yorker Radio Hour, wherever you listen to podcasts.

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