Institute of presidential power in the USA: in search of a model of modern identity

This article analyzes the growing problems of the functioning of the institution of presidential power in the United States in the first third of the twenty-first century. It is emphasized that the modern features of the search for the role-playing model of the president are determined by two main factors: the historical tradition of the emergence of the «great» American presidents and the gradual increase in the role of the US president as the world leader of the «collective West». The latter role dramatically expands the sphere of responsibility and the scale of assessments of the effectiveness of the president’s activities as head of the executive branch of government. As a result, the general result of the activities of many US administrations and presidents was the growing dysfunctional syndrome of the institution of presidential power, expressed in the inability of the White House to simultaneously solve the increasingly complex of internal and external problems facing the United States, especially in the context of globalization. As a consequence of the inability to maintain a balance of domestic and foreign policy problems in the XXI century. the phenomenon of the «imperial presidency», which is defined as the systematic exit of the institution of presidential power beyond the limits established by the US Constitution, begins to play an increasing role. The phenomenon of the «imperial presidency» was especially pronounced during the years when President D. Trump was in power (2017-2019). It is concluded that by electing the presidency with the model image of the president of the first third of the XIX century. E. Jackson (1829-1837), D. Trump relatively quickly found himself in a situation of chronic crisis of his presidential identity due to the need to become at the same time the «great» American president and the most authoritative American World leader of the newest historical period. As a result, D. Trump found himself in a kind of historical trap, having managed to carry out only one large-scale reform in the field of federal taxation during the first years in power, and simultaneously entered into serious foreign policy conflicts, far from being resolved, with all the centers of world politics, including even the closest geographic neighbors of the United States - Mexico and Canada.

политическая система США, функции института президентской власти, мессианство, Д. Трамп, «имперское президентство», налоговая реформа 2017 г, комиссия Р. Мюллера, functions of the institute of presidential power, messianism, D. Trump, «imperial presidency», world leadership, tax reform in 2017, commission R. Muller, political system of the USA, мировое лидерство

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