Quotations/Excerpts from the 1776 Declaration of Independence in an era when tRump once described himself as “King” as well as “Dictator”:
The “King”
- “endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for the purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of foreigners”[1]
- “refusing to others to encourage their migration”[2]
- “made Judges dependent on his Will alone”[3]
- “erected a multitude of New Offices”[4]
- “sent swarms of Officers to our people”[5]
- “kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies”[6]
- “Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us”[7]
- “For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world”[8]
- “abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us”[9]
- “destroyed the lives of our people”[10]
- “transporting large Armies to complete the works of death”[11]
- “totally unworthy the Head of civilized nation”[12]
- “a Tyrant unfit to be the ruler of a free people”[13]
The King’s “legislature”
[1] Efforts to overturn the 14th Amendment on birthright citizenship
[2] Banning migration from nations tRump doesn’t like, including those he’s call “shitholes”
[3] Having a far-right judiciary rubber stamp nearly every proclamation by tRump
[4] Such as Elon Musk’s slash & burn Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
[5] Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) warrantless raids without Due Process.
[6] Los Angeles
[7] Los Angeles
[8] Tariff madness
[9] VP Vance & tRump’s list of domestic “enemies of the people”
[10] “One Big Beautiful Bill”
[11] Among other foreign interventions, funding and supporting Israel’s genocide on Palestine and an unwarranted attack on Iran against international law and the U.S. Constitution.
[12] Yep.
[13] Yep.
[14] The Republican Party’s fascist politics subservient to “King” tRump’s will and finances.
[15] The Republican Party’s fascist politics are the opposite of justice.