{"id":90288,"date":"2025-08-31T11:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=90288"},"modified":"2025-08-30T19:05:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T19:05:32","slug":"trump-pushes-the-limits-of-presidential-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/trump-pushes-the-limits-of-presidential-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump pushes the limits of presidential power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k4eeI4iv1FZ6MlDKdLC\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p>\nUS President Donald Trump is facing sharp criticism from Democrats, who accuse him of pushing the limits of presidential power. The latest flashpoint is Trump&#8217;s deployment of the National Guard to tackle crime in Washington DC and now he&#8217;s warning Chicago and New York could be next. California Governor Gavin Newsom called Trump&#8217;s tactics akin to those of a dictator, when Guard troops hit his state back in June. But Trump insists it&#8217;s a necessary move to restore order in America&#8217;s cities. In Perspective, we spoke to Tristan Cabello, a historian and lecturer at Johns Hopkins University.<\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump is facing sharp criticism from Democrats, who accuse him of pushing the limits of presidential power. The latest flashpoint is Trump&#8217;s deployment of the National Guard to tackle crime in Washington DC and now he&#8217;s warning Chicago and New York could be next. California Governor Gavin Newsom called Trump&#8217;s tactics akin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1539],"tags":[38230,975],"class_list":["post-90288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-presidential-power","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90290,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90288\/revisions\/90290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}