Joker Still Trumps King Charles

Imagine the shock and unmitigated anger our forefathers would have felt if a British Monarch came to Congress and lectured our legislators about heeding laws in our U.S. Constitution. After nearly 250 years it finally happened. King Charles was in the building and he delivered.

He was supposedly there to remind America of that special relationship between us and his realm. But his goodwill address soon became a lecture on understanding our own government. He actually read some laws aloud and instructed this Congressional body on the meaning of said laws and our duty of upholding and obeying them!

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At first, I was appalled, then amused. When you’re an American citizen in the 21st Century, you have to be prepared for anything these days. Like so many other Americans who didn’t plan to criticize the King, I couldn’t get over my surprise.

For years I’ve been dealing with the same topics in my opinion editorials that also came up in this royal lecture. But I’m an American citizen. I have that right. King Charles, like everyone else who visits this country, also has the right, along with other freedoms and protection under the law.

But he came here under false pretenses.

His visit was no goodwill, hands-across-the water, friendly tour to cement that special friendship between America and its former landlord. Strengthening diplomatic ties wasn’t the real reason he came to our shores.

While everyone else was going gaga over this royal visit from King Charles at the White House, I could only think of him and Trump acting in a variation of the old Imperial Margarine commercials. I couldn’t help but notice there was truly a “buttering up fit for a King” going on. It was only margarine, though, not REAL butter.

Any way you look at it, the praise this British Monarch lavished upon POTUS 47 wasn’t real butter. It was just margarine and always intended to be margarine — and not the rich savory butter The Donald has gotten so used to enjoying on his pasty white butt. But never mind, Trump proudly soaked it up anyway.

In case you haven’t noticed, dear readers, the British are among the few people in the world who can openly insult you and still make it feel as though they’re complimenting you. Of course, they stole this psychological technique from the Irish. So I’m not going to give them complete credit for this biphasic ability that both wounds and exults.(Especially since the Irish still excel at it and are even better at it than the Brits.)

It’s the kind of thing you can openly see in action, yet still remain unaware that it’s taking place. Awareness means you must pay close attention to the words spoken and how deftly they’re taking down the designated target and cutting it into pieces.

Needless to say, Trump didn’t recognize he was being insulted. Neither did members of Congress.

And yet, nowhere was this insult delivered by the royal velvet glove more publicly obvious than during this address to Congress that King Charles engineered. It was only the second time in our nation’s almost 250-year history that a British Monarch spoke before Congress. The first time happened when Queen Elizabeth(his mother) did so when President George H. Bush was President. Now that Trump was President, the excitement of this historical event overshadowed the King’s put-down. In fact, the Republican legislature was especially receptive to King Charles’s speech with big grins and repeated outbursts of sustained applause — just as Trump demanded.

At any rate, this royal visit had less to do with reaffirming special bonds between the U.K. and U.S.A. and more to do with probing The Donald’s mind to find out his intentions and objectives when it comes to world peace and diplomacy.

Well, duh. With DJT, flattery ALWAYS works.

Why else would a British Monarch gift a U.S. President with a brass bell inscribed with HMS Trump? Why else would a King even want to waste special time and attention to tell POTUS 47 what a great job he’s doing when, clearly, his subjects AND the majority of American citizens think he’s a terrible President?

Pay even more attention and you’ll see that this faux tour must have been carefully planned by King Charles, his royal advisers, government officials, and behavioral/ psychological specialists. Its main purpose was to understand Trump and figure out how the U.K. and the rest of Europe could effectively work with him to get what they want and keep him from unleashing World War III. What did they really learn? You can butter up The Donald, but he’s still going to do whatever He — not you — wants to do.

The journalists coming to the White House also must have figured out the real intentions of this royal visit, but they kept their opinions to themselves. They didn’t want to speak ill of the King and incur the wrath of the U.K. — or lose their jobs by being honest. That’s why this hands-across-the-water vibe had such traction.

Perhaps some day history won’t be as forgiving as the news media of 2026 was, and the real story might come out.

Regardless of the reason for his visit, King Charles was above everyone else because of his royal blood — and was treated as such.

The Donald only thought he was above the law because of his money — and never understood that he couldn’t buy any respect or real loyalty with it.