Driving in a golf buggy with Donald Trump recently, his 18-year-old granddaughter Kai asked him if there was a dream he was still trying to chase.

“You become president — that’s the dream, right?” Trump replied in a video that Kai posted to her 2.5 million Instagram followers. Then he added: “Now you’re president, your dream is to become a great president.”

It was a rare personal insight into 79-year-old Trump’s grand ambitions a year after he won a second term in the White House, capping an astonishing political comeback.

Yet for Trump, being a “great president” more than ever involves exercising executive power on a historic scale.

And in recent weeks Trump has accelerated these power moves, taking revenge on his political opponents, sending more troops into more US cities, muzzling

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