Trump vowed, 'I alone can fix it.' But he discovers power has limits.

By Karen Tumulty and David Nakamura February 6 at 6:00 AM

Donald Trump, elected on a promise to bring an unabashedly autocratic leadership style to the presidency, is rapidly learning that even the most powerful job in the world has limits.

“I alone can fix it,” he declared in the most memorable line of his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last summer.

But as he heads into his third full week in office, Trump has seen his controversial immigration order blocked by a federal judge. Republican allies in Congress are grumbling about not being consulted. Foreign leaders are refusing to buckle to his bluster. A rebellion is brewing within the emboldened federal bureaucracy.

Meanwhile, his own aides are bickering and providing the news media a steady stream of leaks about palace intrigue.

The establishment that he vowed to blow up is more potent in practice than it seemed when he was making it his political foil during an election season.

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