The king’s jester
Donald Trump has called himself a king.
In a post to Truth Social on Wednesday, Feb. 19, the president, 78, praised his own efforts in attempting to revoke revoking New York City’s recently reinstated congestion pricing system.
“CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan and all of New York, is SAVED,” he wrote, adding, “LONG LIVE THE KING.”
Hur hur, so funny, he’s such a card, hur hur.
Weird that other presidents haven’t made that joke though. Maybe they thought it would be inappropriate, unfunny, narcissistic, trashy?
Also of course you don’t save Manhattan by promoting more and more and more traffic. Manhattan isn’t built for a lot of traffic. It’s a skinny island: there isn’t room for a lot of traffic, so the more of it you have the more gridlocked it gets.
Shortly afterwards, the official White House Instagram account shared a fake Time magazine cover, depicting Trump wearing a crown. In place of the magazine’s title was Trump’s name in big letters — and again, at the left corner, read the words, “Long live the king.”
He’s not the king, he’s the hitler.
H/t iknklast
To quote the late British writer Mervyn Jones:
The insuperable objection to monarchy is that the king or queen is elevated, and respect is accorded, for no reason other than birth … No one who believes either in the claims of merit or in the pursuit of equality can defend the system.