Donald Trump has responded to planned “No Kings” protests against his leadership, saying “we’re not a king at all.”
Demonstrations targeting him are planned nationwide on Saturday, the same day as a military parade celebrating the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary in Washington, D.C, which coincides with the president’s 79th birthday.
“A king would say I’m not going to get this…he wouldn’t have to call up [House Speaker] Mike Johnson and [Senate Majority Leader John] Thune…” Needs to change up his statement to say "…he wouldn’t have to call up all of his blindly loyal ‘yes men’ " Because that’s just so much effort for him.
Can’t even read that shit hole with all the pop ups
Poop ups
What is with people not using the proper intenret protection thats standard nowadays? Get ublock origin.
Ublock doesn’t work on all phones homie
Why’d you get one where it doesn’t? 🤔
Trump isn’t a king like Augustus wasn’t a king—they turned themselves into something even more extreme while dressing themselves up in the shells of the institutions they destroyed.
Not in real life but he plays one on TV
Problem is, he plays one in real life too.
The use of the royal “we” seems to indicate otherwise…
To be honest, it probably actually was a slip of the tongue. He’s nowhere near that clever.
Right, he’s legitimately not intelligent enough to realize he came close to an actual fucking joke.
He says “we” all the time to refer to himself.
The royal “we”
That’s a common point of confusion—he’s actually using the caesaropapal “we”.
You, Lemonspeed, and I all joined Lemmy the same day.
JUNE 13TH WOO! 🎂
I was curious so I checked and apparently I beat you by one day. I wonder what the date distribution looks like around that time for people joining.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy
The resulting outcry from the Reddit community ultimately led to a planned protest, from June 12 to 14 in which moderators for the site would make their communities private or would restrict posting.
You must’ve been smarter than us.
A pretty high peak I’m guessing. My two years is in 3 days.
Funny, I thought it was the godly we as in the father, the son, and the orange doofus.
Not going to lie, I’m really irritated that his birthday falls on the exact date of this anniversary… He can have his birthday dictator worship and claim that’s not what it’s for and make us look “ungrateful to the army” for protesting it…
The entire Donald Trump arc is proof that God exists and wants to punish humanity.
Might get lucky this year and cancel the military parade due to thinderstorms
One service member already died in training for the parade. I’m sure a few more aerial vehicle and crew won’t bother him.
Wait what?
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"Calm down folks, and I mean folks, there are no kings here. Just one, me! The best king with the very most words. Make my bank account Grat again and go fuck yourself! See you in the Golfclub losers. "
It says “No kings”. We’re allowed to have one.
/s
No. Fuck you.
Strange, he was the one to lable himself a king first, followed by the whitehouse…
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1892295984928993698
What was the prompt? Trump as King Disco Elysium style?
Ohhhh, look who’s trying to weasel out of his customary BEHEADING.
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Beautifully stated, thank you.
His reasoning as to not being a king is that he’s trying to be a king and it’s harder than he expected? Is the sword of damocles too scary for him??
Completely unrelated, but the band Sleep Token released a song title Damocles in their recent album, and it’s great. The whole album and everything they release is great, but I am particularly fond of Damocles.
Damoclese is dope. Caramel hits hard in the feels for me. Just feel for Vessel.
I love the whole album. Caramel definitely has some weight to it. I don’t know Even in Arcadia is better than Take me Back to Eden, but it’s close if it’s not.
Yeah, both albums are stellar. Can’t really choose between them.
Arguing over the technicality of a word vs his actions. Children do this.
And we are not amused.
So quit acting like it you orange piece of shit.