{"id":34372,"date":"2025-02-19T15:32:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34372"},"modified":"2025-02-19T15:43:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:43:49","slug":"the-madness-of-king-donald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34372","title":{"rendered":"The Madness of King Donald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America has no king.<br \/>America needs no king.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"448\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot_20250219-151513-448x640.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a tweet on the official White House account that reads: &#039;CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!--President Donald Trump. Beneath is a mocked up Time-esque cover with an image of Donald Trump, wearing a crown, and the caption, &#039;Long live the king.&#039;\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Seen on the official White House Twitter feed.  Donald Trump, calling himself a king.<\/p>\n<p>A king.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump increasingly reminds me of Denethor.  As he threatens our nearest neighbors, as he covets lands governed by our allies, as he spurns decades-long alliances and parcels up territory not his with foes, I think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=198\">Gandalf&#8217;s indictment of the Steward of Gondor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I think George III gets a bad rap from Americans &#8212; he was a fairly decent king, and the colonists&#8217; issues were with Parliament specifically &#8212; but we threw off kings almost two hundred and fifty years ago.<\/p>\n<p>And today, Donald Trump calls himself a king.<\/p>\n<p>I will never call him a king.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America has no king.America needs no king. Seen on the official White House Twitter feed. Donald Trump, calling himself a king. A king. Donald Trump increasingly reminds me of Denethor. As he threatens our nearest neighbors, as he covets lands governed by our allies, as he spurns decades-long alliances and parcels up territory not his<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34372\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;The Madness of King Donald&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[5218,4258,4029,5217,46],"class_list":["post-34372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-denethor","tag-donald-trump","tag-gandalf","tag-gondor","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}