The use of the royal “we” seems to indicate otherwise…
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To be honest, it probably actually was a slip of the tongue. He's nowhere near that clever.
Right, he's legitimately not intelligent enough to realize he came close to an actual fucking joke.
He’s not using the royal “we”—that’s a common point of confusion. He’s actually using the caesaropapal “we”.
You, Lemonspeed, and I all joined Lemmy the same day.
I was curious so I checked and apparently I beat you by one day. I wonder what the date distribution looks like around that time for people joining.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Reddit_API_controversy
The resulting outcry from the Reddit community ultimately led to a planned protest, from June 12 to 14 in which moderators for the site would make their communities private or would restrict posting.
You must've been smarter than us.
A pretty high peak I’m guessing. My two years is in 3 days.
JUNE 13TH WOO! 🎂
Strange, he was the one to lable himself a king first, followed by the whitehouse...
https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1892295984928993698

What was the prompt? Trump as King Disco Elysium style?
Trump isn’t a king the same way Augustus wasn’t a king—they became something even more extreme, while dressing themselves up in the shells of the republican institutions they destroyed.
Arguing over the technicality of a word vs his actions. Children do this.
The royal "we". Interesting.
Right? Real life once again proving to be shitty satire
Not in this case. Real life is accidentally so shitty, it makes for passable satire. I mean if the dude would've conciously pulled it off, I'd almost be okay with him.
Ohhhh, look who’s trying to weasel out of his customary BEHEADING.
TACO lil removed
His reasoning as to not being a king is that he's trying to be a king and it's harder than he expected? Is the sword of damocles too scary for him??
Completely unrelated, but the band Sleep Token released a song title Damocles in their recent album, and it's great. The whole album and everything they release is great, but I am particularly fond of Damocles.
Damoclese is dope. Caramel hits hard in the feels for me. Just feel for Vessel.
So he's too stupid to know about the royal "we."
That figures.
C'mon guys...everyone knows he prefers, "God Emperor".
Hm, enormous corpulent worm? Maybe
Except that worm was Prescient. Trump has so far shown no sentience, let alone prescience.
"We are not a king. We are Venom!"
I think you misspelled "Vermin"
Don’t do Venom dirty like that.
Not going to lie, I'm really irritated that his birthday falls on the exact date of this anniversary... He can have his birthday dictator worship and claim that's not what it's for and make us look "ungrateful to the army" for protesting it...
Might get lucky this year and cancel the military parade due to thinderstorms
The entire Donald Trump arc is proof that God exists and wants to punish humanity.
"Calm down folks, and I mean folks, there are no kings here. Just one, me! The best king with the very most words. Make my bank account Grat again and go fuck yourself! See you in the Golfclub losers. "
It says "No kings". We're allowed to have one.
/s
So quit acting like it you orange piece of shit.
Not in real life but he plays one on TV
Problem is, he plays one in real life too.
We three kings of orient are smoking on a rubber cigar
Fuckers better start sampling that