Trump swearing loyalty to King Charles wasn't in my predictions for this year
this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2025
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Take a picture of Trump kneeling in front of King Charles and share them to Maga world
there are 56 members of the commonwealth of nations. of those, only 15 are commonwealth realms. the rest are republics or a different monarchy.
india was the first republic member when they transitioned from dominion (with british monarch as head of state) to a republic in 1950.
commonwealth members need only recognize king charles as the 'head of the commonwealth', which is a purely ceremonial position.
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What the fuck? I know it's Donald Dump, but despite all the insanity happening since his inauguration this is the first headline that manages to surprise even me. Dude's talking about annexing Canada and Greenland on one hand, but then bows to the former UK colonial project? What?
GG Trump, I honestly did not see this one coming.
I am wondering if he thinks this means unrestricted access to natural resources of eastern members lol
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Dudes got fucking dementia
I really wish removing a president wasn't so difficult. We're all staring at the train wreck being told it's completely normal for a train to be running off the tracks.
I really wish removing a president wasn’t so difficult.
You just need someone with better aim than the last guy who tried.
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We thought the Cold War never ended, but it was actually the Revolutionary War all along
Britain rips off a Russian mask and gallops away laughing while sipping tea
As non-functional as it is, we don't need to make it ten times worse. If this happens Elon and Trump will likely behave like they own the rights to every resource on the eastern members of CW.
Also trying to side with an openly fascist, sexist, racist president? King Edward III much?
This is just another stupid Friday distraction to keep people from talking about other crimes being committed
"If you don't make news for the weekend, then the news agencies will, and we haven't outlawed free press yet"
- The Trump Party Platform
an article from British tabloid The Sun reporting that King Charles III was making a "secret offer" to the White House, and that plans are in process for the U.S. to become an associate member of the international organization.
Ah yes, the classic cuck king making deals to give more power and alliances to a fascist. What can possibly go wrong? Let's ask Vittorio Emanuele III and Michael I of Romania.
This is why monarchy has to be destroyed, every single atom of it.
Charles is making zero deals giving power to anyone; any words out of his mouth on this are coming from the UK cabinet.
You don't need to go too far, King Edward III is believed to write letters of good intent to hitler, urging him to keep bombing the UK a little more and that they would cave in.
This would make a great entry point for the protests against this. And the left should be a bit opportunist and use the "proud British" rhetoric that the right used for Brexit against US "taking over leadership of CW"
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Hold on, let's ask George Washington and see what he says, oh right, fuck you traitor.
Benedict Arnold at least had an understandable (if stupid) reason to flip sides. Trump's just an idiot.
So wait then we can join that weird low rent commonwealth games Olympics knock off? Fuck it why not let’s do it.
Welcome to reverse 1776. We are living in the twilight zone.
Technically, I don't think that being in the Commonwealth as it exists in 2025 would actually change much. It's a pretty loose organization these days. More than a third of the world's population is in it.
Being in the Commonwealth realms, which are the Commonwealth members that have King Charles as head of state, would, I suspect, be unconstitutional.
EDIT: All that being said, I think that it's reasonably safe to put this in the "distraction" category of Trump statements, rather than the "serious proposal" category.
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He's high, stupid, AND suffering from dementia.
Good lord, this is a strange timeline.
I thought he wanted to be a king, what a dumb dumb.
Might be easiest to join a ready made monarchy in that case. All you have to do then is claw your way through the ranks til you reach the throne. No need to change the constitution. :)
British Royals playing the longest game. Now I halfway excpect the Spanish inquisition next...
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Does he sit on the floor of the oval office getting high and sending out memos? "Man, wouldn't it be cool if we were like, you know, part of this kingdom man..."
" "I Love King Charles. Sounds good to me!" Trump wrote in response to the report." He sounds like he's been invited on a date.
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The USA can join the Commonwealth by becoming a Territory of Canada. Just give us a sec while we change the rules on representation in the house of Commons.
Only if the Red Coats take back the USA as their former colony and press fucking RESET.
I...just...what...I...I...I....
Awww fuck this.
Benjamin go get the musket!
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Lmfao what?
Actually, you know what, that’s a great idea orangeboi. Let’s go for it.
To the Brits: considering this is basically us coming back to you hat in hand, I think it’d be quite reasonable to exact some sort of penance from us. Perhaps we could surrender our President to the King’s tender mercies? Hell, you can just take the whole Republican Party if you want to make some old-school object-examples of what the appropriate treatment of fascists is.
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The president shared an article from British tabloid The Sun reporting that King Charles III was making a "secret offer" to the White House, and that plans are in process for the U.S. to become an associate member of the international organization.
The idea to join the Commonwealth was first floated during that 2017-2021 term.
This is for real. Now Brexit makes sense.
If Russian speaking parts of Ukraine should be ceded to Russia by Trump's opinion, English speaking parts of the USA may just as well join England again.
I understand the plan now. America was great when it didn't exist
What is even happening
Am I the only one who things this is way more insane than 2016-2020? He did tell people to drink bleach but that is borderline stable.
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