"On Saturday, nearly 7 million Americans took to the streets in the largest one-day protest in the nation's history to oppose Donald Trump's authoritarianism under the slogan "No Kings!" Despite the absurd Republican smear of protesters as violent extremists, the marches were peaceful, patriotic, and perhaps even too high-minded for their own good. Certainly, the phrase "No Kings" evokes a venerable civic-minded small-r republican heritage that transcends ideological and party lines."
"In an interview with Fox recorded on Friday, Trump contested the critique that he's a would-be monarch, saying, "They're referring to me as a king. I'm not a king." But on Saturday, Trump posted on Truth Social a disturbing video, almost certainly created by AI, that indicated he was less inclined to refute the accusation of royal aspirations than to revel in the fantasy of being a sovereign who could degrade his subjects with impunity."
Nearly 7 million Americans took part in the largest one-day protest in U.S. history under the slogan "No Kings", opposing Donald Trump's authoritarian tendencies. The marches were peaceful, patriotic, and rooted in a small-r republican civic heritage that transcends party lines. Right-wing pundits shifted from labeling protesters violent to mocking age and vitality. Trump denied monarchic aspirations in a Fox interview, then posted an AI-like video on Truth Social showing him crowned and piloting a "King Trump" jet dumping brown liquid resembling feces onto protesters. The post signaled a relish for sovereign degradation and underlined ugly emotional fuel behind authoritarian rule.
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