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It dates to the 1930s under Roosevelt and became common again in the 1970s and has remained fairly common since then:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czar_(political_term)#Modern_u...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._executive_branch_...

oh, right. thanks for the clarification. I can understand that it might have come from a certain, limited exposure to the tsardom, but it's still is kind of f*cked up considering the state of Russian Empire at any stage of existence. Especially during the first czar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible

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