Hey, it took him a whole month to get here. And he hasn’t even shot anybody on 5th Avenue, that’s probably next. Trump has proclaimed himself a monarch. First he tinkered with being an emperor, with his Napolean-attributed quote, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” which is an interesting way of expressing the thought, the end justifies the means. It’s also a way of giving Trump carte blanche to do whatever he wants under the guise of “saving” the country. But today he got even weirder still. This is what he posted on Truth Social.
He’s referring to a toll program that was controversial and that’s neither here nor there for purposes of this discussion. The fact that Trump is crowing about being “THE KING!” in all caps is what is noteworthy. And it’s gotten plenty of notice.Â
Well…it only took him a month to declare himself King,” said The Nation’s legal analyst Elie Mystal on Blue Sky.
After political commentator Keith Olbermann posted the screen capture, Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Will Bunch promised, “I’m sure he means the Pastrami King, which people will now again be able to drive to in their massive SUVs.”
Politico commentator and host Nicole Sandler quipped, “Democracy is panicKing.”
“Any Republican who pretends they don’t know where this is going is lying to you,” YouTube political host Keith Edwards commented.
Yale Law School Professor Scott Shapiro asked, “Which law professor(s) will write an op-ed arguing that Trump really is king?”
Longtime writer and reporter David Itzkoff suggested the reasoning would be, “The text of the US Constitution doesn’t contain the word ‘king,’ therefore it is impossible to say the framers were opposed to one.”
“He’s not talking about Elvis,” explained Gizmodo tech reporter Matt Novak.
“Well, I was going to write today about Trump throwing our allies and democratic values under the bus for Putin…then GOP said they’ll cut Medicaid, so I wanted to write about that…now Trump is coming out and saying he’s King after quoting Napoleon a few days ago…” confessed Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali.
Civil rights lawyer Joshua Erlich predicted the New York Times would respond to the post with a headline like “Is Trump King? Legal Experts Differ.”
“He’s managed to effectively fuse the technocrat/’libertarian’ arm of the party, which wants a secular dictator, with the fundamentalist arm of the party, which wants a theocratic sovereign. And both arms are OK with the idea of a king. It’s wild. Once again, people look at Trump & see what they want,” assessed astrophysicist and professor Mike Boylan-Kolchin.
People do project onto Trump what they want to see. For my part, when he came on the scene I saw a conman, a moron, and a sociopath. Trump has never proven me wrong.
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The time has come to speak of many things, of shoes and sealing wax and cabbage and kings. This is NOT FUNNY anymore. We have most certainly gone down the rabbit hole and thru the looking glass. The camel has his nose under the tent. ENOUGH. If nothing else a one-day protest (I’m sure by only those opposed) to either not go to work or better still not to purchase anything from anyone. Either would send a shock wave thru the economy. BUT I’m a dreamer.
Felonious king of bullshit, for sure.
And who’s surprised?