Donald Trump is putting an overly literal spin on the words in his presidential seal — e pluribus unum, meaning, “out of many, one.”
In a head-spinning week, the president further focused his presidency on benefiting the one — himself — while looking even more oblivious to the many — the millions of Americans trapped in an affordability crisis.
And even normally pliant Senate Republicans aren’t standing for it.
Every president flexes power to pursue policy and political goals, some arising from their own obsessions. But Trump is going further than any of his recent predecessors to use his office as a vehicle of personal power.
In the week’s most extraordinary move, Trump used his executive power to extraordinary personal advantage, with his Justice Department “forever” barring IRS audits into past tax affairs of the president and his family.
