This is something FDR did heavily in the 1930s to expand his own power and bully congress into passing the New Deal. https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/purge-1938 He also used legally questionable executive orders like crazy.
There's lots of other examples, such as the various emergency powers, including a large string of them for terrorism during Bush and expanded during Obama.
I've been posting about this issue on HN long before Trump was in power and plenty of journalists were documenting it.
Attacking FDR, someone who stood up against business interests to defend labor, kinda exposes the game here.
Congressional Republicans confirmed every single one of his cabinet members.
So perhaps he demands it, but does not give congress a pass. At all. They chose to let him.
He borrowed just enough of the stuff socialists were promising, and bolted it onto the government to mollify the working class who'd been absolutely ravaged by oligarchs for the preceding decades. You only have to look at the rest of the world to see how things might've turned out without FDR's very reasonable interventions.