Did Trump make it clear on the campaign trail that he wants to be unrestrained by Congress or courts? Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times/Redux It’s pretty clear, and not especially surprising, that the second Trump administration has immediately launched a number of initiatives aimed at testing the outer limits of presidential power. This is a chief executive, lest we forget, who once said of the Constitution, “I have an Article II where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.”