When King Charles recently visited the United States, it was a diplomatic mission intended to repair the U.S.-British relationship that Trump had damaged.
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Charles spoke to Congress and showed more support for democracy in the United States and around the world than Trump ever did.which is surprising because King Charles is a monarch and Trump is a democratically elected president, whereas a king is more pro-democracy than an American president.
Trump doesn’t understand anything beyond the most superficial elements, but he really wants to be king.
He wants to be what he thinks a king is, which is why he transformed the Oval Office into something a person without any concept of taste or royalty thinks a palace should look like.
Here’s what Trump did in the Oval Office:
Now imagine being a person on a diplomatic mission who is overpaid for their ceremonial duties, but whose only job is to be as polite and diplomatic as possible, and he appears in the image above, as Donald Trump beams with pride.
At a White House event, Trump showed his helplessness by revealing to reporters what he thought was a compliment from King Charles, but it certainly wasn’t.