One year later, it’s clear Donald Trump is the most consequential president of our lifetime

Trump's second term–one year in, with Stephen Walt

It’s been a year since President Trump returned to office, this time with fewer constraints, a better understanding of how government works, and a much more muscular view of US foreign policy. This week on the GZERO World Podcast, Harvard’s Stephen Walt joins Ian Bremmer to help answer a simple question with complicated answers: what kind of presidency is he building this time around?Over the past year, we’ve seen a dramatic expansion of preside…

One year of Donald Trump: Alarms sound over relentless expansion of presidential powers • West Virginia Watch

President Donald Trump tours the assembly line at the Ford River Rouge Complex on Jan. 13, 2026 in Dearborn, Michigan. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump promised during his bid for another White House term that he would be a dictator only on “day one.” Before a town hall audience in Iowa in December 2023, Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Trump, “Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, y…

One year of Donald Trump: Alarms sound over relentless expansion of presidential powers

President Donald Trump tours the assembly line at the Ford River Rouge Complex on Jan. 13, 2026 in Dearborn, Michigan. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump promised during his bid for another White House term that he would be a dictator only on “day one.” Before a town hall audience in Iowa in December 2023, Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Trump, “Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, y…

'An enduring threat to democracy': Alarms sound over Trump's relentless expansion of presidential powers

President Donald Trump tours the assembly line at the Ford River Rouge Complex on Jan. 13, 2026 in Dearborn, Michigan. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump promised during his bid for another White House term that he would be a dictator only on “day one.” Before a town hall audience in Iowa in December 2023, Fox News host Sean Hannity asked Trump, “Under no circumstances, you are promising America tonight, y…

One year later, it’s clear Donald Trump is the most consequential president of our lifetime

No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt, almost a century ago, has been so powerful