President Donald Trump insists he’s no monarch—just hours before thousands of protesters plan to remind him of that fact.
In a clip aired Friday on Mornings With Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, the president rejected claims that the ongoing government shutdown was timed to coincide with the “No Kings” rallies scheduled for this weekend.
“No. I mean, some people say they want to delay it for that,” Trump said. “A king… this is not a king. You know, they’re saying, they’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king.”
He doesn’t want to be a king, he wants to be a dictator. Kings actually have a responsibility to their people. Dictators couldn’t care less.
Accidental-Hyzer on
If he didn’t want to be criticized as acting like a king, maybe he shouldn’t act like a king, or [make a social media post calling himself king](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna192912), you know, the very thing that kicked off the “no kings” protests? Maybe it’s the dementia as to why he doesn’t remember what he posted just a few months ago?
Does it worry MAGA just how many folks in this country aren’t boot lickers?
Anon3580 on
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Expensive-Ad-1705 on
God Emperor is his preferred pronoun /s
ObservationMonger on
Y U NO make me kingh ?
Fickle-Ad5449 on
This has so many parallels to the Emperor’s New Clothes.
Life is imitating art.
bopgame on
He prefers Nazi Overlord
rowdydionisian on
Did he want to become a King just like in England, so he could be the head of both State and Religion? It would make sense at least, as that would keep him out of prison that he knows he should be spending the rest of his life in for human trafficking rape and so much more. Secondly, he knows that he isn’t getting into heaven by default, his only chance of entering the pearly gates to paradise would be to have some sort of religious authority. Too bad when the files release his little dreams will shatter and scatter like dust on the wind.
irishguy_2012 on
is he realizing not everyone loves him? lol.
AggravatingFox8855 on
“Trump’s perceived authoritarian drift”. Really telling it like it is Daily Beast. So brave.
Depressed-Industry on
He’s not a king, he’s the (movie) Mandarin. A figurehead for TV living life like a god while others like Vought and Miller pull the strings of power,
PoliticalNerdMa on
Remember: Trump genuinely has believed this entire time everyone wanted him to be king despite the resistance. Narcissistic people construct a false reality that is so god dam distorted no amount of evidence changes their perception. I bet he still thinks people in mass want him to be king.
J-the-Kidder on
Right… I know it’s shocking but I don’t believe him.
couldbutwont on
They just want the protests to end and it’s up to the people to make sure they never do
Diligent-Engineer428 on
I think he said that because he knows Project 2025 is getting ready to oust him and put Vance in his place. This is why he needs to be removed as a traitor, this way Vance and any other shithead in that administration would be removed too. We can’t be nice, this is all to horrific to just do an impeachment. Charge him or the next president will finish what Trump started
Vanillaquilted on
Classics Trump move; play the victim when the heat get s too intense
chesterforbes on
Probably because “Emperor” has a nicer ring to it
Atlusfox on
As the protest gets closer a lot of MAGA are trying to protect themselves. Either they pretend that the left actually thinks Trump is a king, hence the name no kings protest point and go, “look at those dumb people”. Or they just sit and explain how they are just going to make fun of the protesters. It’s really dumb but I will say if Trump honestly thinks people are protesting him because they think he is an actual king. That would be actually funny. The idea behind the protests are pretty clear. The only reason why anyone thinks otherwise is because they live under the MAGA rock.
jacobriprap on
I live in a country with a king (Denmark), and he doesn’t not behave in any way like trump try to…
Gambitzz on
Maybe as starting he should point chill out and remove the tacky gold everywhere? lol
Caraes_Naur on
This isn’t about kingship.
Trump can’t stand the prospect (and creeping reality) that he is unpopular.
clovisx on
I can’t until we don’t have to see him as anything but a bad memory.
Sensitive-Option-701 on
> “They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king, just a fascist dictator.”
FTFY
No kings.
No Nazis.
No fascists.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people.
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President Donald Trump insists he’s no monarch—just hours before thousands of protesters plan to remind him of that fact.
In a clip aired Friday on Mornings With Maria Bartiromo on Fox Business, the president rejected claims that the ongoing government shutdown was timed to coincide with the “No Kings” rallies scheduled for this weekend.
“No. I mean, some people say they want to delay it for that,” Trump said. “A king… this is not a king. You know, they’re saying, they’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king.”
Read the full story, [here](https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-suddenly-doesnt-want-to-be-a-king-as-massive-protests-loom/).
Guys, guys.. he just prefers the term Fuhrer.
He doesn’t want to be a king, he wants to be a dictator. Kings actually have a responsibility to their people. Dictators couldn’t care less.
If he didn’t want to be criticized as acting like a king, maybe he shouldn’t act like a king, or [make a social media post calling himself king](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna192912), you know, the very thing that kicked off the “no kings” protests? Maybe it’s the dementia as to why he doesn’t remember what he posted just a few months ago?
Nah I’m pretty sure he still does.
He didn’t seem to mind so much when [a certain children’s book](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/trump-fbi-pick-kash-patel-childrens-books) by current FBI Director Kash Patel was published.
Does it worry MAGA just how many folks in this country aren’t boot lickers?
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
God Emperor is his preferred pronoun /s
Y U NO make me kingh ?
This has so many parallels to the Emperor’s New Clothes.
Life is imitating art.
He prefers Nazi Overlord
Did he want to become a King just like in England, so he could be the head of both State and Religion? It would make sense at least, as that would keep him out of prison that he knows he should be spending the rest of his life in for human trafficking rape and so much more. Secondly, he knows that he isn’t getting into heaven by default, his only chance of entering the pearly gates to paradise would be to have some sort of religious authority. Too bad when the files release his little dreams will shatter and scatter like dust on the wind.
is he realizing not everyone loves him? lol.
“Trump’s perceived authoritarian drift”. Really telling it like it is Daily Beast. So brave.
He’s not a king, he’s the (movie) Mandarin. A figurehead for TV living life like a god while others like Vought and Miller pull the strings of power,
Remember: Trump genuinely has believed this entire time everyone wanted him to be king despite the resistance. Narcissistic people construct a false reality that is so god dam distorted no amount of evidence changes their perception. I bet he still thinks people in mass want him to be king.
Right… I know it’s shocking but I don’t believe him.
They just want the protests to end and it’s up to the people to make sure they never do
I think he said that because he knows Project 2025 is getting ready to oust him and put Vance in his place. This is why he needs to be removed as a traitor, this way Vance and any other shithead in that administration would be removed too. We can’t be nice, this is all to horrific to just do an impeachment. Charge him or the next president will finish what Trump started
Classics Trump move; play the victim when the heat get s too intense
Probably because “Emperor” has a nicer ring to it
As the protest gets closer a lot of MAGA are trying to protect themselves. Either they pretend that the left actually thinks Trump is a king, hence the name no kings protest point and go, “look at those dumb people”. Or they just sit and explain how they are just going to make fun of the protesters. It’s really dumb but I will say if Trump honestly thinks people are protesting him because they think he is an actual king. That would be actually funny. The idea behind the protests are pretty clear. The only reason why anyone thinks otherwise is because they live under the MAGA rock.
I live in a country with a king (Denmark), and he doesn’t not behave in any way like trump try to…
Maybe as starting he should point chill out and remove the tacky gold everywhere? lol
This isn’t about kingship.
Trump can’t stand the prospect (and creeping reality) that he is unpopular.
I can’t until we don’t have to see him as anything but a bad memory.
> “They’re referring to me as a king. I’m not a king, just a fascist dictator.”
FTFY
No kings.
No Nazis.
No fascists.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people.