It was his best line of the day. If it was intentional, it was a more subtle piece of media trolling than we are used to from the president.
For Trump was using the plural, the royal “we” to deny the Left’s latest suggestion, which is that he wants to be an absolute monarch to exercise autocratic power.
In response to Trump’s line, let me adapt well-known royal words for myself: “We were amused.”
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Queen Victoria is supposed to have turned icily on a courtier who told a risqué story and said, “We are not amused.” Monarchs use the plural — “our government,” “we have decided,” etc. — on formal occasions. Speaking to their young children, they probably don’t say, “You may approach us,” but
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