The President of the United States of America美国总统英文简介

The President of the United States of America (POTUS)is the elected head of state

and

head

of

government

of

the

United

States.

The

president

leads

the

executive

branch

of

the

federal

government

and

is

the

commander-in-chief

of

the

United

States

Armed

Forces.

The President of the United States is considered one of the world's most powerful

people, leading the world's only contemporary role includes being

the commander-in-chief of the world's most expensive military with the largest

nuclear

arsenal

and

leading

the

nation

with

the

largest

economy

by

real

and

nominal

GDP. The office of the president holds significant hard and soft power both in the

United States and abroad.

Article II of the

U.S.

Constitution vests the executive power of

the United States

in

the

president.

The

power

includes

execution

of

federal

law,

alongside

the

responsibility

of

appointing

federal

executive,

diplomatic,

regulatory

and

judicial

officers, and concluding treaties with foreign powers with the advice and consent

of the Senate. The president is further empowered to grant federal pardons and

reprieves, and to convene and adjourn either or both houses of Congress under

extraordinary

president

is

largely

responsible

for

dictating

the

legislative agenda of the party to which the president is enrolled. The president

also

directs

the

foreign

and

domestic

policy

of

the

United

the

founding

of

the

United

States,

the

power

of

the

president

and

the

federal

government

has

grown

substantially.

The

president

is

indirectly

elected

by

the

people

through

the

Electoral

College

to

a four-year term, and is one of only two nationally elected federal officers, the

other being the Vice President of the United Twenty- second Amendment,

adopted in 1951, prohibits anyone from ever being elected to the presidency for a

third full term. It also prohibits a person from being elected to the presidency

more

than

once

if

that

person

previously

had

served

as

president,

or

acting

president,

for more than two years of another person's term as president.

The current President is Barack Obama

，

who took office on January 20, 2009.