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How Trump could trigger the third constitutional presidency

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Julian Zelizer : Less than a month into the second Trump presidency, we may already be witnessing a remaking of the constitutional presidency.

He says the presidency has gone through several important developments throughout its history, and now we may be witnessing the next.

Zelizer says the next constitutional presidency may be antithetical to the Constitution itself.

Is Trump ’s presidential style the next rhetorical presidency? Are we witnessing the formation of the third constitutional presidency? If so, any president who enters without promises to fire everyone their predecessor dared hire, without a mission to steamroll government, risks being seen as a failure.

Under this edict, the government will be understood to be presidency-focused.