Hasan Piker expresses concern that the Trump administration's use of tariffs represents an expansion of executive power that lacks a logical basis.

“I'm officially placing Trump in the unique position that I've only placed one other Global leader on the Vladimir Putin Insanity position okay that's it official I'm done looking for I'm done looking for reason behind his actions”

President Trump is correctly utilizing executive power to assert control over the federal bureaucracy and challenge the existence of an unelected fourth branch of government.

“And President Trump, as I said before, he lives in reality, and for President Trump there's no there's no set of rules where there are two sets of rules, right? There either there's either one set for everybody or there ain't no rules. Yeah. he says there's one set of rules for everybody, I'm the pr”

The federal government is creating its own police force, which is an unprecedented assertion of power as policing has traditionally been a local and state responsibility.

“the federal government is creating its own police and this is uh this again is um uh unprecedented and and it's one of the things that historians like me are um are um watching really very carefully”