The path to this reckless war was paved by the collapse of accountability in Washington<\/p>\n
Since he reclaimed the White House, Donald Trump loves being compared with a monarch with unprecedented powers. \u201cLONG LIVE THE KING!\u201d Trump said<\/a> on social media last year, after his administration tried to kill congestion pricing in New York. In October, the US president posted an AI-generated video<\/a> of himself dumping brown sludge on protesters who participated in a daylong mass protest, known as \u201cNo Kings\u201d, against his administration. In the video, Trump wore a crown and was flying a fighter jet labeled \u201cKING TRUMP\u201d.<\/p>\n He has also launched a relentless campaign of self-aggrandizement, plastering his name and face on government buildings<\/a>, including the Kennedy Center and the US Institute of Peace. Trump demolished the White House\u2019s East Wing and is overseeing plans to replace it with an enormous ballroom; the National Park Service designated the president\u2019s birthday<\/a> as a free-admission day at national parks; and the US treasury is poised to issue $1 coins<\/a> featuring Trump\u2019s image to commemorate the 250th anniversary of America\u2019s independence later this year.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The path to this reckless war was paved by the collapse of accountability in Washington Since he reclaimed the White House, Donald Trump loves being compared with a monarch with unprecedented powers. \u201cLONG LIVE THE KING!\u201d Trump said on social media last year, after his administration tried to kill congestion pricing in New York. In … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}