A King and a want-to-be

I am disgusted by the pomp and circumstance surrounding the visit of the “Royals” to Washington, D.C..  Perhaps it is the Libertarian streak in me.  The idea of social hierarchy is repulsive.  There are very few people that I would bow to, and I would certainly not “kiss the ring” of either of these mortals.  In 2026, roughly 36% of Brits consider themselves anti-monarchist.  Kudos to them, as an American, I’m with them.

Who's at the table?

From the NYT:

The list of people who the White House invited was a mix of Trump family members, media handmaidens, titans of tech and finance, plus the six Supreme Court justices from whom Mr. Trump demands unquestioning loyalty.

There were the business titans: Tim Cook; Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez; David Ellison; Marc Andreessen; Stephen Schwarzman; Isaac Perlmutter.

There was the delegation from Murdochland: Fox News’s chief executive Suzanne Scott and a flock of her highly paid talking heads including Jesse Watters, Bret Baier, Maria Bartiromo, Ainsley Earhardt, Greg Gutfeld, and Laura Ingraham; and also Keith Poole, who is the top editor of the New York Post, the also-owned-by-Rupert-Murdoch tabloid newspaper that Mr. Trump cherishes.

There were the Supreme Court Justices. Not all of them; just the six conservative ones.

And there were the Trump children: Ivanka and her husband Jared; Eric and his wife Lara; Tiffany and her husband Michael.

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