The Royal Threat Behind Trump's Petty Pomposity By Jim Hightower

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In the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the framers were clear on what they were NOT creating: a monarchy. One delegate expressed the group's absolute conviction that the founding document must exclude even the "fetus of monarchy."

Yet, 238 years later, watching Donald Trump's inaugural week, it was both awful and comical to see the royal pretensions of King Donald. There were silly gestures, like him waving around a ceremonial sword (made more ludicrous by the fact he was a cowardly rich-boy draft dodger). Plus, the staged spectacle of him imperiously signing stacks of orders, proclamations and pardons in a show of "Kingliness."

Petty pomposity aside, though, he is an untethered megalomaniac whose inaugural speech re-asserted such monarchial concepts as "the divine right of kings" and "manifest destiny." And let us not naively dismiss Trump's flat-out claim that the Constitution gives him "the right to do whatever I want as president," or that he previously suggested "termination" of the Constitution to return him to the White House.

Indeed, he now contends that he can unilaterally terminate a bedrock constitutional right: the 14th Amendment provision guaranteeing citizenship to everyone born in the USA. He has royally and unconstitutionally decreed that children born here whose parents were undocumented immigrants are not citizens but "aliens."

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1. Always loved Jim Hightower's writings