WASHINGTON, Today, in a world of fast-paced order-in-council executive decisions and the dynamic of the world order, President Donald Trump has set a new standard of what he can or cannot do: his own righteousness. In a stakes interview with the CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil on January 13, 2026, the President claimed that even though the Constitution and the courts exist technically, the primary obstacle to his activity was a personal sense of right and wrong.
Trump claimed it was restricted by his morality and he had a very high grade of morality and hence it was restricted as he gave the sit-down at a Ford assembly line in Dearborn, Michigan.
Morality vs. Executive Authority. The Constitution.
The remarks of the President have sparked a raging debate on the executive power and article II authority. Trump returned to the White House with a pace never seen before, ever since, signing hundreds of executive orders to help him achieve a unilateral redesign of federal agencies. In a question aimed at determining whether the Checks and Balances of the Courts and the Congress are still relevant, Trump implied that the legal obstacles could be never approached.
Trump said there would never come a time that we would get to the courts, the Constitution because I would want to know what was good in our country. The use of this Personal Restraint philosophy instead of judicial review is a major deviation of the conventional definitions of Constitutional Limits
2. Foreign policy: “Global Hegemony” and the Maduro Capture.
The U.S has nothing to do with the morality framework adopted by the President. Interview follows the dramatic Operation Absolute Resolve, January 3, 2026, military operation that saw the capture of the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
Outside of the Venezuelan Crisis, Trump is further redoubling his ego-politics approach:
• Acquisition of Greenland: Trump has identified the acquisition of the territory in Denmark as a national security priority based on the necessity to avoid Russian or Chinese control
. • Iran Protests: As the biggest Iran protests in years took place, Trump threatened the administration with a strong move assuming that the regime continues with anti-government executions.
In particular, the Erfan Soltani Case: In this case, the President referred to the planned execution of a 26-year-old Iranian Erfan Soltani, stating that Iranian patriots were getting help.
3. Domestic Economy: The War against the Federal Reserve.
Although the critics suggest that the President is too busy with the global ambitions, Trump maintains that he is still concerned with domestic Cost-of-living Concerns. He justified his record by relating the present growth to a mess of inflation which he had inherited by the Biden administration. Nevertheless, his fight against the Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is the most contentious domestic front.
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The Powell Investigation.
The Justice Department has also initiated a criminal investigation against Powell over a renovation of Federal office buildings to the tune of billions of dollars.
Trump, who has repeatedly called Powell corrupt or incompetent on the basis of his failure to reduce interest rates quickly enough, rejected the fear of political retaliation.
Disclaimer:
The news data included in this report is sourced on the trusted reports and sources and is dated January 2026. The updates provided by the official news sources should be verbalized by the readers since the situation with Iran and the Federal Reserve can still change.