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Trump’s response to ‘No Kings’ marches only proved the protesters’ point
CNN ^ | 10/20/2025 | Stephen Collinson

Posted on 10/20/2025 12:40:46 PM PDT by PaulZe

A president steeped in constitutional lore might have been offended by claims he’s acting as a king.

But Donald Trump and his entourage responded with mockery to weekend “No Kings” protests by millions of Americans — embracing the narrative in a way that explains his growing hubris and belief that he has unchecked power.

The president and Vice President JD Vance this weekend both posted AI memes to social media depicting Trump in a crown. The one Trump shared was a mocked-up vision of the president flying a fighter jet emblazoned with “KING TRUMP” appearing to dump raw sewage on protesters. In Vance’s troll on Bluesky, a site popular with liberals, prominent Democrats knelt as supplicants in a royal court before Trump, the divine and absolute ruler.

It was a clever political trick. MAGA supporters can blast anyone who takes offense to the posts as lacking a sense of humor and being prim. The posts also trivialize protesters’ gravely serious claims that America is witnessing a wannabe autocrat. But they also subtly advance the thesis that Trump is all-powerful and immune from dissent, an attractive proposition to voters who like a strongman....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antifajournalist; antifapropaganda; cnn; cnnsedition; constitutionnotkings; designatedterrorist; domesticenemies; enemieslist; enemycombatant; enemyjournalist; media; msm; nokings; stephencollinson
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the left has no sense of humor
1 posted on 10/20/2025 12:40:46 PM PDT by PaulZe
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To: PaulZe

Joe Biden wanted to send F16s against MAGA


2 posted on 10/20/2025 12:42:20 PM PDT by sopo
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To: PaulZe

LOL! These mockingbird losers are really laying it on thick now. So pathetic.


3 posted on 10/20/2025 12:42:27 PM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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That’s because they are all mental cases. This protest proved it. Looked like a lunatic convention.


4 posted on 10/20/2025 12:42:32 PM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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To: PaulZe

lol.


5 posted on 10/20/2025 12:42:35 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: PaulZe

A King would not have allowed their protest. They are ridiculous!


6 posted on 10/20/2025 12:42:41 PM PDT by griswold3 (cTruth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: InsidiousMongo

NoKings creeps looked like Old hippies who fried their brains on drugs


7 posted on 10/20/2025 12:46:14 PM PDT by Veto! (Trump is Superman)
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This guy talks like a fag and his s***’s all retarded!
https://www.cnn.com/profiles/stephen-collinson
He looks like a power bottom too.


8 posted on 10/20/2025 12:47:43 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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What unitigate BS...
Morons will be morons...


9 posted on 10/20/2025 12:48:09 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: PaulZe

CNN has even lower ratings than MSNBC. That’s saying something.


10 posted on 10/20/2025 12:49:07 PM PDT by gibsonguy ( )
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If Trump were the autocrat that CNN and Stephen Collinson suppose him to be, CNN would be off the air and Collinson would be in prison


11 posted on 10/20/2025 12:49:28 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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They are all stupid. They scream “Democracy” and don’t understand that a true Democracy would one powerful person in charge. Like a King.


12 posted on 10/20/2025 12:51:04 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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The leftists are terrible at troll-ing and meme-ing. Just awful! They'll have to raise their game, or we'll just keep laughing at them.


13 posted on 10/20/2025 12:51:36 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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Democrats knelt as supplicants in a royal court before Trump, the divine and absolute ruler.

That part wasn't AI. That was real. They were kneeling in supplication to King Political Correctness.

14 posted on 10/20/2025 12:53:38 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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CNN has even lower ratings than MSNBC. That’s saying something.

I remember El Rush-Bo pointing out that one of the MSLSD "Prime Time" shows had an average of 1,000 viewers per State.

Rush made an "executive decision" to ban any and all MSLSD clips, stories, etc because 15 seconds on the Rush Limbaugh Radio Show would receive more audience than a years worth of regular MSLSD programming.

As usual, Rush was right.

15 posted on 10/20/2025 12:54:08 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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Looked like a lunatic convention.

Looked like your typical NEA picket line.

16 posted on 10/20/2025 12:55:55 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: tumblindice

Costco law school


17 posted on 10/20/2025 12:58:47 PM PDT by vmpolesov
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> "The posts also trivialize protesters’ gravely serious claims that America is witnessing a wannabe autocrat. But they also subtly advance the thesis that Trump is all-powerful and immune from dissent, an attractive proposition to voters who like a strongman"

Is this the first instance of a Trans-Journalist ?

The article sure looks like it was written by a woman.

18 posted on 10/20/2025 12:58:56 PM PDT by SecondAmendment (Political insight on loan from Rush Limbaugh)
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This is why conservative memes must be outlawed. /s


19 posted on 10/20/2025 12:58:58 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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I’m sure King George III would’ve resorted to AI memes in response to that whole Boston Harbor thing if AI memes were around back then.


20 posted on 10/20/2025 12:59:55 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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