It isn't, this is the executive part of the government.
That aside misgivings and thoughts of bad faith by the opposing side are not special phenomenon.
I remember when Obama got in, Fox News got a temporary (1 year?) ban attending the whitehouse press conferences and panicking gun owners were making the cost of ammunition soar. He also has had a tendency to intervene in partisan issues, albeit most presidents are a little guilty of that.
Before that G.Bush was going to put all the atheists into Jesus Camp according to the websites I was visiting then. This later turned out to be preposterous. An imperfect president but not a totalitarian one.
A president/king is in the position where he has to balance power among multiple parties in order to accomplish a task. Even the likes of Saddam Hussein were in the same position.