• waigl@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Ever since Donald Trump was elected, I always had the impression that he just doesn’t properly understand that being elected president is a fundamentally different thing from being crowned king.

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      “Terrorists in Boston dumping perfectly good British tea in the harbor. In my day we knew what to do with traitors to the crown. Many such cases in our colonial carnage. Tell good king George to make me royal governor!”

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      Except over 100 years before the war of Independance you had the trial of King Charles I, where thr Britjsh Parliament made a point that not even Kings were above the law.