US EditionDick Cheney’s Expansive Vision of Presidential Power Lives on in Trump’s Agenda
Cheney’s theory enables presidents to exert near-total control over executive agencies, shaping Trump’s 2025 presidency and gaining strong Supreme Court support.
- On Nov. 3, 2025, Former Vice President Dick Cheney died at age 84, known as a dominant post-9/11 wars figure and one of the most powerful vice presidents.
- Rooted in his Ford-era experience, Cheney argued Congress had overreached after Watergate and backed repealing limits like the War Powers Act.
- Cheney influenced policy by directing intelligence and drafting strategy papers that bolstered the Iraq invasion case, while promoting the Defense Planning Guidance and PNAC advocating permanent U.S. military dominance and preemption.
- This year the U.S. Supreme Court issued rulings upholding firings of agency officials and signaled readiness to revisit anti-unitary precedents, while President Donald Trump used dozens of executive actions.
- Although Cheney warned against Trump and backed Kamala Harris in 2024, his doctrines helped enable a presidency that critics say centralizes power and erodes civil liberties.
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Dick Cheney's vision of presidential power culminates in Trump
Former Vice President Dick Cheney will be remembered for many things. He was arguably the most powerful vice president in American history. He was a paragon of conservatism. He was the architect of many of the more extreme measures in President George W Bush’s “war on terror.” But Cheney’s legacy, after his death on November […] The post Dick Cheney’s vision of presidential power culminates in Trump appeared first on Asia Times.
Trump’s imperial presidency is Dick Cheney’s final legacy
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney in 2011. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s final political act was also his most admirable. Warning that then-candidate Donald Trump “can never be trusted with power again,” Cheney, a Republican, urged 2024 voters to elect Trump’s Democratic opponent, then-Vice President Kamala Harris, as president — a rare example of a prominent political leader placing principle over party. Yet…
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