Two Kings

 

      His Majesty King Charles III is on a four day trip in the United States and today was his state visit to Washington DC. During his visit today, he addressed a joint session of Congress and Republicans somehow kept their shit together long enough not to boo him even as he disagreed with Trump, in his unfailingly British way, on key issues, including the war in Ukraine.

     Of course, Trump doesn't intend on following any of the British monarch's initiatives because the only guy to whom he listens with rapt attention is the sawed-off little psychopath who invaded Ukraine in the first place.

     Of course, some idiot at the White House in charge of its Twitter account couldn't resist trolling everyone with this post that was simply captioned, "Two Kings." It was obviously intended to tweak out the 9,000,000 liberals who came out for the third, latest and largest No Kings protest. Laura Ingraham, who sleeps with posters of Adolf Hitler in her bedroom, gleefully called us "humorless liberals" while blithely forgetting the current right wing meltdown over Jimmy Kimmel's jokes.

     I'd like to think every schoolchild in America knows what happened in Philadelphia 250 years ago. Our Founding Fathers signed a Declaration of Independence declaring our freedom from British tyranny and rejecting the very concept of a monarchy. No more monarchs, no more rule by royal fiat. A government with three branches, with each intended to act as independent checks and balances on the other two. 

     Trump has shown nothing but contempt for our democratic system of government because he loathes anything and anyone who imposes any constraint on the power that he's convinced himself he has. He's talked himself into believing that he can rule this country by the divine right of kings, despite having no respect for any divinity.

     Maybe Trump thinks he can absorb royal panache by osmosis just as he thinks being related to an MIT professor somehow confers scientific wisdom on him through genetics. He's always shamelessly sucked up to the Royal Family because even in his dim brain he knows the British royals are still the gold standard for monarchies. It obviously doesn't matter to him that since the end of Victoria's reign 125 years ago, the British Royal family has been essentially powerless and relegated to ribbon-cutting ceremonies for British supermarkets.

     Trump is a fucking fool who thinks mere proximity to actual history or having Purple Hearts and Nobel Peace Prizes given to him by other fools, plastering Mar a Lago with fake Person of the Year Time covers equates to actually earning them. Trump is a bottomlessly superficial little boy trapped in an aging, bloated body who knows he's achieved nothing truly great in this world. 

     He knows he's a failure, that he's bumbled his way to the top on the shoulders of tens of millions of other idiots who think he's one of them. And he knows it when lie's alone in bed (because his gold digger wife can't stand sharing a bedroom with him) smearing his greasy thumbs on his iPhone as he insults and attacks seemingly everyone under the sun. He has just barely enough animal cunning to know his time is coming and that the truth will come out when that blessed day finally arrives.