It was a tale of two visits:
President Trump spent Tuesday in the company of King Charles of Britain, welcoming the King as a man who won the popular vote of the United States of America, a symbol of our robust, king-less democracy.
On the other hand, you had New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who was mealy mouthed about whether he’d even go to an event at 9/11 honoring the victims which the King planned to attend. When Mamdani was asked by reporters what he would say to the King, he answered, “You know, if I was to speak to the king separately from that, I would probably encourage him to return the Koh-i-Noor diamond.”
Apparently England has some diamond that the Indians want back.
Of course, the always obsequious Mamdani was all smiles when he did meet the King. But let it not be lost on you that his initial posture was to take up some ancient third world grievance on behalf of . . . India.
It’s America’s 250th birthday and I for one am feeling the joy of having sloughed off the monarchy. If Mamdani had just said that—”As a proud American, I will not bend the knee to a British monarch!”—I would have applauded.
Instead he chose a passive aggressive, beta male, Third World posture of grievance on behalf of India to define his reaction to King Charles’ victim.
Compare that to Trump, tribune of the plebs, who, with what can only be called First World sovereignty, had the grace to welcome a King to whom we do not kneel who came here on a reconciliation tour to garner our favor.
What a split screen.
