The larger problem is that the office of president is out of check since 1945.
For the system to work, no one should believe this one position determines the course of the entire government, but since the 1980s you would be a fool not to.
Given the office of president is out of check and it gets to apply discretion to (in this example) how media companies will be treated both in actual law and whether cases are run, it is only a matter of time before a president builds his route to dictator. Members of whichever party puts him in will be happier for a decade at most, then it's soylent green for everyone.
For the system to work, no one should believe this one position determines the course of the entire government, but since the 1980s you would be a fool not to.
Given the office of president is out of check and it gets to apply discretion to (in this example) how media companies will be treated both in actual law and whether cases are run, it is only a matter of time before a president builds his route to dictator. Members of whichever party puts him in will be happier for a decade at most, then it's soylent green for everyone.