To the self-righteous crowds gearing up for the March 28, 2026, “No Kings” circus: spare us the sanctimonious theater. Your hysterical claim that President Trump is crowning himself king is not just laughable—it’s an outright lie that crumbles the moment you look at the facts.
President Trump has made ZERO recess appointments. Not a single one. Not in the chaotic summer of 2025, not through the endless pro-forma sessions dragging into 2026, and not despite hundreds of critical vacancies rotting on the Senate calendar. He has explicitly said he won’t use this tool—because Senate Republican leadership, led by John Thune and his obstructionist crew, is actively blocking it with those pathetic every-few-days gavel-bangs that pretend the Senate is “in session.”
If Trump were the tyrannical monarch you scream about, he would have steamrolled the process long ago. He could have pushed for a true adjournment, forced the issue constitutionally, and installed his team to deliver the mandate 77 million Americans handed him. He hasn’t. Instead, he’s shown remarkable restraint—respecting Senate procedure even as his own party’s insiders sabotage him from within. That’s not kingship. That’s the opposite: a president chained by his supposed allies while Democrats cheer the gridlock.
Your “No Kings” sloganeering is pure hypocrisy. The real power grab here is the Senate’s—both parties’—refusal to let the elected executive govern. Hundreds of nominees stalled, agencies crippled, the people’s business ignored—all because career politicians prefer games over results. If you truly cared about democracy and checks and balances, you’d be protesting the Senate’s betrayal, not inventing a fantasy dictator who won’t even use a tool the Constitution hands him.
Protesters, drop the drama-queen costumes and face reality: the man you demonize as a would-be king is the one voluntarily playing by rules that are being weaponized against him. Your movement isn’t defending the republic—it’s distracting from the actual roadblocks keeping America from moving forward.
The voters demanded change. The Senate is delivering paralysis. Call that out or admit your “No Kings” march is just another partisan tantrum dressed up as principle.
Scott Watson Marsters, Sr.
