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Does this officially make him a royal pain in the ass?"
Whitehouse said during a CNN interview I don't care if you are a Trump supporter or not. This language coming out of the White House official page is concerning,
We have a republic... if you can keep it."
Another tweeted Benjamin Franklin's Life has gotten better for those who have asthma, peopel with illness, that's who we're fighting for."
As governor of Illinois, my oath is to the Constitution of our state and our nation. We don't have kings in America, and I won't bend the knee to one."
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker stuck a similar tone in a speech at a state address, saying A full-blown power grab wrapped in authoritarian cosplay. This isn't how the Constitution works. The courts exist for a reason, but Trump is out here acting like a king with a Sharpie. If this stands, the rule of law doesn't just bend—it breaks."
Political commentator Brian Allen said Donald Trump isn't a 'king' and we won't let him use New Yorkers as roadkill on his revenge tour. We'll see him in court."
New York Governor Kathy Hochul wrote on social media New York worked with the federal government for years. There were thousands of pages documenting all those negotiations and agreements. So, my strong hope is that Governor Hochul will go to court and keep congestion pricing running."
Jon Orcutt, a former policy director at the city's Department of Transportation, told Newsweek So this is the fight we're in. It's all about our sovereignty."
LONG LIVE THE KING!"
Mr Trump took to his social media platform, Truth Social, to claim victory with the statement This is an attack on our sovereign identity, our independence from Washington. We are a nation of states. This is what we fought for."
CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!”
Trump posted on Truth Social For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be king; and there ought to be no other.”
Thomas Paine had written in Common Sense in 1776 The American solution, ... But even
summarized writer Richard Hurowitz in an essay for TIME in 2018 There were so many issues where the founders disagreed, but this was not one of them,
historian Holly Brewer told ABC News last year of the consensus that a President would not be effectively made “an elected king.” If the will of the President is not implemented, and the President is representative of the people, ... that means the will of the people is not being implemented, and that means we don’t live in a democracy, we live in a bureaucracy.”
I'm here to say: New York hasn't labored under a king in over 250 years and we are not — we sure as hell are not going to start now,
He who saves his Country does not violate any law,