by Carol L. Robinson
Kent State University
First, from an article published in The New York Times (February 19, 2025):
President Trump is famous for his love of everything gold and other trappings that connote royalty, whether it be large military parades or extravagant inaugural balls.
But in a post on his social media platform Truth Social on Wednesday, Mr. Trump went a step further, likening himself to a king as he celebrated his administration’s move to kill New York City’s congestion pricing program.
“CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED,” he wrote. “LONG LIVE THE KING!”
The White House then reinforced the message, recirculating it on Instagram and X with an illustration of Mr. Trump wearing a crown on a magazine cover resembling Time, but called Trump.
Posted on Truth Social (February 19, 2025)
- The Plot Against the King (Kash Patel, 2022)
- The Plot Against the King Activity Book (Kash Patel, 2023)
- The Plot Against the King 3 (Kash Patel, 2024)
- What Kash Patel’s Children’s Books Reveal About the MAGA Movement
‘The Plot Against the King’ trilogy by the new director of the FBI has been dismissed for its conspiracy theories, but a closer look is perhaps even more disturbing - Kash Patel’s Maga kids’ book is embarrassing. I should know – I’m a children’s author
Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson; I found this image on Facebook (2025).
‘Getting Medieval?’ The Middle Ages in Modern Politics
This was floating around on Facebook (2025).
