trumps real plan

When Trump first got elected in 2016, I vividly remember thinking that he had all the attributes of a so-called "King" instead of a president. After all, he lived then (and still now, part time I guess) in a literal golden room, at the top of a "tower".

He has more money not just than any other President in history -- but also more money than all of the previous presidents combined. In addition to that, he also just seems pretty authoritarian, and certainly ambitious. Are these not the exact traits that someone would apply to a king? Oh and don't forget that, just like a King would, Trump has a pretty big family, including two adult sons who could currently take over for him on the throne, not to mention a very young son, by Melania, named Baron. Baron, as a name, literally translates to the son of a royal....

When he first got elected, I remember thinking quite heavily on all of this, and I also tried to do some of my own research, trying to see just what othr people thought, as well as into Trumps own personal history. I found two pretty interesting things: The first thing concerns Donalds mother, who had Scottish ancestry, and who was apparently  obsessed with the English royal family. Unfortunately I'm lacking a source for that tidbit but I do recall reading it somewhere. And, beyond that, the other interesting thing I found was that Trumps pretty little penthouse suite up there at the top of his tower, was actually all designed based off King Louis's old Palace of Versailles. This is kind of weird detail, to me, because the French monarchy actually suffered one of the most embarasing falls from grace in monarchical history! Remember the French Revolution? The peasants sheared King Louis's head off. It was, in my opinion, a much more significant anti-King move than what we had Stateside, which is often given so much credit. But the Americans can't say they actually sheared a Kings head off in his own country. All the American Revolution did was run away from England to a new place, and fight the King off her shores. He,King George, the shit that he was, didn't die. The English are still celebrating royal weddings...like that one the other day....

Oh and excuse me, because I just now found the tidbit about Trump's mother and her obsession with the English royals. It was in Politico:

When she was at home, she reveled in the coronation in 1953 of Queen Elizabeth II, glued to the pageantry even as her husband pooh-poohed it by calling the British royals “a bunch of con artists,” as relayed later in The Art of the Deal.

At any rate, back in 2016 and early 2017, when I was researching this, I ran a number of searches on Google, trying to find anyone out there --like journalists or people on message boards--who might also be thinking that Trump didn't just want to be President, but also, one day, a King. To my surprise, I didn't really find many articles or people talking about it at first. In some weird way, it was like I was all alone in imagining it. I spoke of it briefly to some friends -- they all wrote me off, per usual, as being an ill-informed asshole lacking in a "Real education". Eventually, after searching Google with keywords like "Trump, king!" and "Trump monarchy" and "Queen Ivanka", and not really getting hits, I ceased to do so. I largely lost interest.

But then, at some point, it started to be the case that, lo and behold, I didn't need to purposely search out the references to Trump as potential King, or Dictator. They started popping up for me, without my looking ,instead. And the other day was really the biggest bang of them all, when I was on Twitter and came to find out that Time Magazine has now, just this week, published a cover image of Trump looking into a mirror, and seeing himself as a literal king! I can't help but think its a bit odd. Time magazine is obviously enormously influential, and now they, just like i was, have imagined this ghastly thing. The idea has entered into the public consciousness for certain now, particularly after Trump made his "I have the absolute right to pardon myself!" comment, on Twitter. The idea of Trump as king,in the public mind, also grew a bit a few months bfore this comment, when he "jokingly" referenced the Chinese president making hmself President for life, and said "maybe we should try that here, too..."

Some people might find the idea preposterous. Personally, I don't think its all that far fetched. I also don't really think that the Trump supporters, who claim to love the American constitution etc, would put up that much of a fight, if Trump were to attempt to become a king. After all, the idea of a king ironically matches the rest of their profile: Trump supporters love a very particular Christian God (who is a king), and they also love the fantasy of themselves as knights of a sort, armed with their guns instead of swords, fighting for ..well, whatever they think they're fighting for. In other words, just like the English peasants of old, who obsessed over fantasies of knights in shining armor, the Trump supporters tend to have this "I fight for God, King, and Country!" obsession. Except, of course, in AMerica, they're missing the king. So now maybe its time they get their own?

If this all happened tomorrow, I can pretty much already imagine the responses the Trump lovers would have. They'd say it had to happen or something like that. They'd probably be happy about it. In fact, the day that Trump joked about becoming president for life, many Trump supporters on Twitter said they loved the idea. These people don't care about a democracy, in my opinion. They just care about making other people angry, and they've gotten to the point that they'll support anyone who will do that. Even a maniacally ambitious man who dreams of himself as King. They'll follow him right off a cliff.

In many ways, it's not really that hard to understand the psychology behind why desperate people, which the Trump lovers are, tend to rally around the idea of a king. A king is, after all, the ultimate patriarchal figure. He's just like God (at least in theory). He is there to protect you at all times, and he never changes! He's always watching. He is safe and comfortable and in line with centuries worth of tradition and conservatism. A king, unlike a president, doesn't have to get replaced...and when he does, he's just replaced by someone (so we're told) who is just like him, since its his nearest relative. Instead of thinking about this all politically for a moment, try instead to think of it like a situation with, say, an orphan. An orphan is, oftentimes, always being thrown to a new family, or left to fight for himself. He is independent - but at what cost? People who like kings like them because, they tell themselves, it's not like being an orphan. In many ways, I think the American conservatives tend to take this negative view of democracy (as though its like being orphaned) instead of the positive view, that its like being a truly freed soul. American conservatives , like i say, seem to have all the desire for a king, even if they aren't conscious of it. They feel unloved and unrepresented. They yearn to live in some pretend past that was never real. They watch the British royal weddings more with jealousy than disgust. Just like Trump's old Scottish mama.

So yea. The first king of America. What would happen next?

Who gives a fuck.