Also it's very striking to me that this administration and many of its hangers-on seem to see Christmas primarily as a tool to trigger the libs/non-Christians. Utterly miserable, joyless people.

Libertarians have been warning about the imperial presidency for decades, entirely because of situations like this.

Trump isn't the first wannabe dictator to become President. Adams, Jackson, Johnson, Wilson, Nixon... But none of them had the level of power afforded to the modern executive branch.