Dear Editor,
Americans have not had to protest “no kings” since the days of the colonists. Today, Trump’s tariffs are no different than the taxation of King George III… his tariffs are just as unjust as they are illegal—as are all his other activities that violate our constitution.
Acting as if he is a king that can do whatever he wants regardless of how absurd or un-American.
Known throughout history as Mad King George, the Kingdom Press in the 1700s did not report on the bizarre and delusional behaviors of their king or they would be punished. Or anyone else in the public eye who criticized or mocked him and monarchy just as what we see happening today.
Our president has his own bizarre behaviors and paranoias. Wandering around on the roof of the White House. Saying and doing things that contradict reality with the past and present. And acting as if America is his Kingdom and our government is his monarchy and he rules over all our institutions and industries.
He said himself he is proud of the government shutdown, which he gathered his billionnaire donors together to feast on Beef Wellington and champagne to celebrate that he and his loyalists have full control of the Presidency, the Senate, the House, and effectively the Supreme Court.
It’s no longer about working together as a democratic union. It’s about taking full control. Signing power. Our government no longer operating as the American founders of our constitution had hoped for. Hope for the country they loved and fought for would be able to sustain a democracy and not morph back in to and monarchy.
In 1776, when leaving the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Ben Franklin was asked by the colonist Elizabeth Welling Powel, “Well, Doctor, what have we got—a Republic or a Monarchy?” He replied, “a Republic, if you can keep it.”
A democracy is fragile as we are learning first hand. Our president is illegally threatening to withhold government back-pay. And boast, “I’m going to cause more pain with job firings and government de-funding,” if our country doesn’t capitulate to his government takeover.
And while in the midst of this chaos, he laughs and jokes, posting racist and vulgar memes of government officials who take the shutdown seriously in trying to protect millions of Americans healthcare.
And, as usual and unpresidential, he posts creepy memes depicting him and his cohorts as grim reapers and demonic dolls and zombies coming for Americans. What kind of president does that? It’s not funny.
Lives and livelihoods are at stake. As if he is so “obsessed” with revenge he has infected as much pain as he can regardless of how much it hurts his own people. As did King George. Today’s No Kings rallies are not Antifa (whatever that means), or Americans hating on America that Trump and his cohorts absurdly try to claims.
It is Americans being as American as you can be—exercising their First Amendment rights. And like it is said, “If you don’t use it it, you’ll lose it.” And we the people are speaking out against everything that is happening today.
Project 2025 that plans to dismantle our constitutional rights and inhumane treatment of our U.S. immigrants and deploying military troops into states Trump seeks retribution for their lack of loyalty, just as King George did to the colonies. Refusing to confirm elected Democrat officials and firing those that uphold our constitution and replacing them with Trump loyalists and threatening to come after those who are not and saying, “No king equals no pay checks,” only puts more wind it the sails of our No King rallies protesting our President’s delusional thinking about his tariffs, DOGE, and his Big Beautiful Bill making America great again.
It’s anything but. Like the colonists before us, we will do the only thing we know to do—speak out and protest.
J.M.
