Donald Trump has responded to planned "No Kings" protests against his leadership, saying "we're not a king at all."
Demonstrations targeting him are planned nationwide on Saturday, the same day as a military parade celebrating the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary in Washington, D.C, which coincides with the president's 79th birthday.
68 Comments
Lemonspeed@lemmy.world · 305 pts · 1y
The use of the royal “we” seems to indicate otherwise…
ceenote@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 1y
To be honest, it probably actually was a slip of the tongue. He's nowhere near that clever.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 1y
Right, he's legitimately not intelligent enough to realize he came close to an actual fucking joke.
xyzzy@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 1y
He says "we" all the time to refer to himself.
littlewonder@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
The royal "we"
docmark@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1y
He’s not using the royal “we”—that’s a common point of confusion. He’s actually using the caesaropapal “we”.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y
You, Lemonspeed, and I all joined Lemmy the same day.
orclev@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
I was curious so I checked and apparently I beat you by one day. I wonder what the date distribution looks like around that time for people joining.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy
You must've been smarter than us.
exixx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
A pretty high peak I’m guessing. My two years is in 3 days.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
JUNE 13TH WOO! 🎂
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Funny, I thought it was the godly we as in the father, the son, and the orange doofus.
AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee · 114 pts · 1y
Strange, he was the one to lable himself a king first, followed by the whitehouse...
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1892295984928993698
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
What was the prompt? Trump as King Disco Elysium style?
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 1y
Trump isn’t a king the same way Augustus wasn’t a king—they became something even more extreme, while dressing themselves up in the shells of the republican institutions they destroyed.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 1y
Arguing over the technicality of a word vs his actions. Children do this.
fake_meows@lemm.ee · 72 pts · 1y
The royal "we". Interesting.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 1y
Right? Real life once again proving to be shitty satire
dzsimbo@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
Not in this case. Real life is accidentally so shitty, it makes for passable satire. I mean if the dude would've conciously pulled it off, I'd almost be okay with him.
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 55 pts · 1y
Ohhhh, look who’s trying to weasel out of his customary BEHEADING.
TACO lil removed
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Beautifully stated, thank you.
match@pawb.social · 51 pts · 1y
His reasoning as to not being a king is that he's trying to be a king and it's harder than he expected? Is the sword of damocles too scary for him??
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Completely unrelated, but the band Sleep Token released a song title Damocles in their recent album, and it's great. The whole album and everything they release is great, but I am particularly fond of Damocles.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Damoclese is dope. Caramel hits hard in the feels for me. Just feel for Vessel.
BassTurd@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I love the whole album. Caramel definitely has some weight to it. I don't know Even in Arcadia is better than Take me Back to Eden, but it's close if it's not.
JigglySackles@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah, both albums are stellar. Can't really choose between them.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 37 pts · 1y
So he's too stupid to know about the royal "we."
That figures.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 1y
C'mon guys...everyone knows he prefers, "God Emperor".
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1y
Hm, enormous corpulent worm? Maybe
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 11 pts · 1y
Except that worm was Prescient. Trump has so far shown no sentience, let alone prescience.
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
Well, in this timeline, it's the Onion version of Dune.
ALL HAIL WEIRD AL
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 4 pts · 1y
Instead of encasing himself in Sandtrout, he covers himself in a fake tan
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Hog Emperor of Maracas
Depleto III
The Lies Must Flow
buy the whole set
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y
Wait wait wait
'Merica
'Merica Cult Figure
No More Children of 'Merica
Hog Emperor of 'Merica
Slaughterhouse: 'Merica
Worshippers of 'Merica
The Magat Jihad
'Merica: The Human Crusade (see what I did there, freaking brilliant)
'Merica: The Battle of Cleveland
Shoppers of 'Merica
Wormthings of 'Merica
(I haven't read the other books, I'm actually kind of surprised Brian kept going)
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 32 pts · 1y
"We are not a king. We are Venom!"
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 1y
I think you misspelled "Vermin"
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Don’t do Venom dirty like that.
dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 1y
"Calm down folks, and I mean folks, there are no kings here. Just one, me! The best king with the very most words. Make my bank account Grat again and go fuck yourself! See you in the Golfclub losers. "
Nollij@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 1y
It says "No kings". We're allowed to have one.
/s
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
+1, but one small edit, "...in the Golfclub SUCKERS and losers."
Asafum@feddit.nl · 24 pts · 1y
Not going to lie, I'm really irritated that his birthday falls on the exact date of this anniversary... He can have his birthday dictator worship and claim that's not what it's for and make us look "ungrateful to the army" for protesting it...
Placebonickname@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Might get lucky this year and cancel the military parade due to thinderstorms
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1y
One service member already died in training for the parade. I'm sure a few more aerial vehicle and crew won't bother him.
in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
Wait what?
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/army-pilot-killed-helicopter-training-accident-fort-campbell-kentucky/
socsa@piefed.social · 7 pts · 1y
The entire Donald Trump arc is proof that God exists and wants to punish humanity.
floo@retrolemmy.com · 21 pts · 1y
bdjukeemgood@lemm.ee · 18 pts · 1y
Can’t even read that shit hole with all the pop ups
dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 1y
Poop ups
Goretantath@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
What is with people not using the proper intenret protection thats standard nowadays? Get ublock origin.
bdjukeemgood@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Ublock doesn’t work on all phones homie
logi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Why'd you get one where it doesn't? 🤔
bdjukeemgood@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
I mean we can get mad at phone manufacturers all we want but the problem exists before them and ublock. If everyone had a blocker they’d just find a way around it.
jmf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
There are comparable adblockers on every major phone type nowadays, anything too old for them probably won't be compatible with modern web anyways....
Zenith@lemm.ee · 15 pts · 1y
Quadhammer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Don't forget meth gnome and the world's oldest boy
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 1y
I gotta ask, who is the Meth Gnome? Cause that's an awesome insult.
Manalith@midwest.social · 1 pts · 1y
Kristi Noem I'd assume, look at SD's meth campaign.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 1 pts · 1y
Meth, I'm on it.
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
Not in real life but he plays one on TV
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 1y
Problem is, he plays one in real life too.
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com · 14 pts · 1y
So quit acting like it you orange piece of shit.
nthavoc@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 1y
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
We three kings of orient are smoking on a rubber cigar
Taleya@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 1y
Fuckers better start sampling that
dinren@discuss.online · 4 pts · 1y
match@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1y
I have eaten the onion and found it to be meat
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
And we are not amused.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · -22 pts · 1y
To be a king you need a kingdom.
America is a country.
synapse1278@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
Who comes first the King, or the Kingdom? 🤔
nkat2112@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y
An excellent response.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
If it walks like a cuck, looks like a cuck, and acts like a cuck - it’s a cuck for a bully idiot strongman that represents the people.