Trump: I have 'scary' amount of power if Supreme Court says DACA can't be dismantled

President Trump said [in January] he would have a "scary" amount of power if the Supreme Court were to decide it's illegal to dismantle the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program created by former President Barack Obama.

"If the Supreme Court rules that President Obama was wrong, which they should because — by the way, if he was right, then I've been given tremendous power," Trump told reporters at the White House Wednesday. "Can you imagine me having that power? Wouldn't that be scary?"

"If President Obama is allowed to do what he did on DACA, then I'm allowed to do whatever I want to do on things that, you know, probably a president ... doesn't have the right to do," he added.

DACA allowed younger immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children stay in the U.S. and work. Trump and other opponents of the program argue that Obama created it without any input or authority from Congress and that Trump should therefore be able to disband the initiative just as easily.

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