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Trump is in his Louis XIV era, and it's not a good look
Los Angeles Times
|October 23, 2025
TO SAY that President Trump is unfazed by Saturday's nationwide "No Kings" rally, which vies for bragging rights as perhaps the largest single-day protest in U.S. history, is the sort of understatement too typical when describing his monarchical outrages.

MICHAEL M. SANTIAGO Getty Images AMERICANS have opposed royal rule since 1776, but President Trump is a lame duck who no longer needs public support.
Leave aside Trump's grotesque mockery of the protests—his post that night of an AI-generated video depicting himself as a be-crowned pilot in a fighter jet, dropping poop bombs on citizens protesting peacefully below. Consider instead two other post-rally actions: On Sunday and Wednesday, "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth announced first that on Trump's orders the military had struck a seventh boat off Venezuela and then an eighth vessel in the Pacific, bringing the number of people killed over two months to 34. The administration has provided no evidence to Congress or the American public for Trump's claims that the unidentified dead were "narco-terrorists," nor any credible legal rationale for the strikes. Then, on Monday, Trump began demolishing the White House's East Wing to create the gilded ballroom of his dreams, which, at 90,000 square feet, would be nearly twice the size of the White House residence itself.
As sickening as the sight was—heavy equipment ripping away at the historic property as high-powered hoses doused the dusty debris—Trump's $250 million vanity project is small stuff compared to a policy of killing noncombatant civilian citizens of nations with which we are not at war (Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador). Yet together the actions reflect the spectrum of consequences of Trump's utter sense of impunity as president, from the relatively symbolic to the murderous.
"In America the law is king," Thomas Paine wrote in 1776. Not in Trump's America.
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