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It's Good to be a Dictator (But It's Better to be a King)
And Trump wants to be a king.
Donald Trump's latest love affair? Himself, of course. But more specifically, himself as a king.
Trump recently posted on his Truth Social, "LONG LIVE THE KING!" and then repeated his boast on The White House account with an AI-generated image of himself wearing a smug grin and crown perched atop his combover.
Ironically, the same base that collectively shrugged at fascism fell into apoplectic fits over Trump branding himself a king. One future supplicant responded, "i'm a republican who voted trump, but no one man is a king. that's the ideals of our nation, no kings."
The plebs have spoken. A king? No, no, no — they wanted a strongman, a fighter, an authoritarian, not some powdered-orange monarch cosplaying Your Majesty. Ideological consistency is for nerds.
Consequently, many pundits have called Trump a dictator, but a dictator consolidates power by coup or state capture, often suppressing opposition brutally. (See Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini.)
Trump is trying and failing spectacularly there. Judges have laughed at his attempts to revoke birthright citizenship and reminded him repeatedly that he cannot withhold federal funds because of a little thing called Congress…
