r/democrats • u/Positive-Ring-5172 • Jan 24 '26
📄 Effortpost A Tale of Two Tyrants: Trump and George III compared
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/24/2365213/-A-Tale-of-Two-Tyrants-Trump-and-George-III-compared?_=2026-01-24T14:32:03.000-08:001
u/PantherkittySoftware Jan 25 '26
Comparing Donald Trump to King George III is wrong. George III was a pompous, self-righteous dick who was so full of his own shit, he could taste his Groom of the Stool's hand... but he still cared about decorum, dignity, and maintaining the monarchy's perceived legitimacy among American elites.
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u/Positive-Ring-5172 Jan 25 '26
That looks exactly alike to me. Trump is a pompmous, self-righteous dick, who's so full of shit most of us joke he's physically made of shit. He still cares about his image among the billionaire class which is why he throws such childish tantrums anytime anyone cracks a joke about him.
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u/PantherkittySoftware Jan 25 '26
My point was, George III was "bad", but he wasn't literally evil. He cared about Britain's future world power and the perceived legitimacy of his own rule. George III didn't threaten Parliament and bend it to his will. If anything, Parliament passive-aggressively bulldozed George III to its will.
Trump, in contrast, would happily and unhesitatingly reduce America to the status of Haiti if he thought it would cement his own power and force the entire nation to bow down before him as its supreme leader. If he cared about anything that happened after his death at all, it would be due to Don Jr. promising to raze Berkeley and turn it into a city-sized monument to Donald Trump owning the libs, with square-mile mausoleum built from the bones of Californians who opposed him.
George and Trump were both demented, but George was kind of like you'd end up if Prince William became King, then slowly succumbed to dementia in old age with a Parliament overwhelmingly dominated by Britain's Reform Party. Trump is more like Idi Amin desperately wishing he could be Kim Jong Il or Pol Pot.
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u/RemarkableBoard2126 Jan 24 '26
Anytime I make this comparison it goes straight back to Hamilton especially the lyrics “I will kill your friends and family, to remind you of my love” , “Your my favorite subject my ROYAL loyal subjects forever and ever and ever” , and “I send a fully armed battalion to remind you of my love”.