What Does the U.S. President Control?

As illustrated in the brief discussion below, it’s always easy to pick something that’s going wrong in the world, and blame a politician you don’t like for it.   I don’t fault Trump for being unable to keep Kim Jong-un from testing nuclear weapons or failing to end Israeli/Palestinian hostility, though he is certainly culpable as a liar and a criminal.

Reader: And that’s just 4 months! Imagine what this illegal, unelected administration can do in 4 years. In just 4 months President Trump (the real PRESIDENT) had made so many changes for the good. Anyone who defends this current dictator is out of their mind.

Me: I have an embarrassing admission to make.  Maybe I don’t fully understand civics, but I had no idea that the President of the United States controls the supply and demand conditions that determine commodity prices. How exactly does that work?

OK, that was sarcasm, but this isn’t: these numbers are fiction.  The average daily closing price for a bushel of wheat in 2020 was $5.498.  You just make up numbers?  What type of person are you?  And you think Trump won the election and that all the lower courts, the appellate courts, and the Supreme Court unanimously say he lost. Imagine that.