Benny Johnson praises Supreme Court decision expanding Trump's power
“It says that the executive power, the executive branch is in one man, and that one man makes the decision for the entire branch. He is the king in the sense of this branch of government.”
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From the June 30, 2026, edition of The Benny Show, streamed on YouTube
BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): But I do want to get to a win yesterday. Obviously, Amy Coney Barrett decided on a very narrow question about the — about votes being counted after election day. That was very, very bad, but I think that we can win that over time. I think that that's something that can be won and argued in a different way. It had to do with Mississippi in a very specific narrow question, and I think there's a lot of fixes to that, frankly. A lot of them are in Congress, and Andy Ogles will be on to pop off about it.
President Trump was given more power than any president in the last hundred years yesterday. Ladies and gentlemen, there's something called the vesting clause in Article Two. Executive power shall be vested in the president of the United States Of America. This is very unique. Andy Ogles will be on. He's a member of Congress. The legislative power is vested in hundreds of men and women in Congress. OK? There's only one branch of government that is imbued into a single sole man, and that's the executive branch, and it's awesomely powerful. Makes the executive branch as certainly as close to a mandate from heaven as we got in this country. It's as close to a king as we have in this country. That's why the founders argued over the executive branch more than any other branch. The judicial branch is obviously reduced all the way through, like, hundreds of different branches of the judiciary. So it's, like, extremely just, you know, distributed. The executive branch is the vesting clause, and this is critical.
It says that the executive power, the executive branch is in one man, and that one man makes the decision for the entire branch. He is the king in the sense of this branch of government. Three coequal branches. Well, ladies and gentlemen, President Trump went ahead and fired people in the executive branch, and the Supreme Court said, yeah. You can do that. They overturned a 90-year-old precedent that says that there are independent agencies that exercise executive power, but cannot have executive power exercised over them. What the hell is that? You wouldn't run a — you can't be a CEO of a Fortune 500 company if there are separate parts of the company that can betray you and defy you. You can't be a general of an army if there's a bunch of units that can betray you and defy you. You have to have full authority to immediately slit throats, hire, fire, reduce, pay, totally end entire segments of the country, or make decisions on the battlefield. If you want a leader, you have to have the leadership power. Otherwise, there's no point in it. And so that's what's been done. They — this is the deep state. If there's anything that's the deep state, it's this. It's the institutional executive that weaponizes the power of the presidency without any oversight from the people. And the Supreme Court ended it yesterday, and it's critical, ladies and gentlemen, a massive victory.