RETURN OF THE IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY

Pres. Truman, "The Buck Stops Here." (A sign on his desk with this saying)
Pres Carter, "The Buck Stops Here." (Borrowed the sign from the Truman Library)
Several other President's have spoken this phrase.
Pres. Trump, "The Buck Stops With Everybody." (Over the partial government shutdown now in its       31st day)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_passing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/president-trump-is-where-metaphors-go-to-die/2019/01/11/f1ff1644-1522-11e9-90a8-136fa44b80ba_story.html?utm_term=.b834b3ebb61b

So far I have not heard anyone refer to President Trump as Your Excellency ... Yet.  His desires, however, are supported by the Senate, especially by the Senate leader McConnell.  It was rabidly supported by the Republican-dominated House of Representatives.  But the American voters got wise and changed the House to being Democratically controlled.  This may be enough to save the American style of Democracy.  At least I hope so.

President Trump has a mental illness of some sort that makes him constitutionally unable care for people.  Though Trump is not yet a full-fledged dictator, he has the characteristics of dictators in being unable to display empathy or compassion.  He also is constitutionally unable to take responsibility for anything and seems to be unable, to tell the truth.  See italics above. (Though originally he said he would take responsibility for the government shutdown.)

Examples of his lack of empathy and compassion are abundant such as separating illegal immigrant children from their parents at the Southern border with Mexico with no intention of reuniting them with their parents. It doesn't bother him to put around 800 thousand Federal government workers in a government shutdown as well as at least an equal number of contract workers* without pay to try to get a whim of a border "wall you can see through."  Though at one time, he seemed to show some sympathy for children of illegal immigrants who were brought to this country as youngsters, he backed off on this and is now happy to let them dangle with the fear of being deported to lands they are not familiar with.  These DREAMERs had to arrive in our country prior to 2007 so their status has been uncertain going on for 12 yrs now.

The news media is now addressing the "ripple effect" of the shutdown, particularly among small businesses such as mom and pop groceries and restaurants and, perhaps, others such as clothing stores.  But the shutdown is thought to impact larger companies as well as it continues like Best Buy and Bed Bath and Beyond.  Delta Airlines feels the shutdown has cost them $25 million in lost travel.**

All this is going on while the U.S. is in a global tariff war that is rising prices to American consumers.

Will Donald Trump succeed in his desire to be coronated?

* Though the government employees will eventually get back pay to recover lost wages from the shutdown, many/most contract workers will probably get stiffed though some special cases are being paid.
Government employees typically receive back pay after the shutdown is over, but contractors are paid directly by companies that can’t bill the government for services when it’s shut down. Because these companies won’t get paid, they, in turn, aren’t able to pay their workers.
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Contractors at the Statue of Liberty are being funded by the New York state government during the partial shutdown, for example.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/27/18157684/government-shutdown-contractors-janitors
** https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/2019/01/15/delta-ceo-government-shutdown-costs-25-million-lost-business/2576031002/