You've been elected to be President. Supreme executive power is yours to be had.

You must now issue edicts that will affect millions..even billions. Pandemics, energy policy, monetary policy, kinetic warfare - including first use of nuclear weapons without warning.

Pretty technical questions. You can "google it", or you can call in "the experts", who've been in their bureaucracies for decades while you've spent most of your life raising cash from donors for your campaigns. They were never elected, you've no way to independently evaluate their competence or abilities (because odds are, you have a law degree which you hardly ever used in litigation or anything, really).

You'll go with what the experts tell you. Except their expertise is in extremely narrow and focused fields: they don't have a holistic meta view of government because that's not what they're paid for.

This is rule by a managerial elite.

If you make the decisions "by the seat of your pants" for the issue of the moment based on gut feelings, you're like a monkey using a dart board to pick stocks.

If you have a long term vision that you're going to ruthlessly pursue, then you'd better be FDR and be willing to stick it out for 4 terms, pack courts, pack bureaus, reward friends and punish enemies, gleefully embrace machine politics and their inherent corruption, even court World Wars for national prestige and power. (I'm in absolute awe of FDR, to be honest)

Otherwise, do what the experts tell you, and you can enjoy the trappings of power (considerable) and financial benefits (extreme, when you get out), and if anything goes south your defense will be "I did the best I could with the information provided to me."

(/rant off. There's no correcting this; all of this is inherent to huge, global spanning powers. Voting is nothing more than a power-legitimacy tool in our current republic for the masses to feel like they're being heard)