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turbinetree

(27,060 posts)
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 03:57 PM 18 hrs ago

Trump shocks with proposal to make himself 'king of the world'

By Travis Gettys
Published January 21, 2026 2:17 PM ET

The full text of a charter for President Donald Trump's proposed Board of Peace sounds suspiciously like plans to make himself "king of the world," according to a political theorist.

A charter was sent out with invitations to dozens of world leaders, asking them to join the U.S. president on a panel to oversee the postwar management of Gaza, but the full text, obtained by The Times of Israel, conspicuously does not mention Gaza.

"So, the 'Board of Peace' [sic] not only doesn't mention Gaza in particular; it proposes to make Donald Trump in particular (not the president of the United States) king of the world," said Jacob T. Levy, a political theory professor at McGill University.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-king-of-the-world/

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"Proposing this structure... is impeachable. It really is," he wrote. "Regardless of whether this organization ever even looks in the direction of Gaza, it's an assault on the international order subordinating the decisions of states to the personal jurisdiction of the Trump family."

"It's hard to be shocked anymore, I know, but we should be shocked," the professor added.


Again.............I rant about this all the time, but this needs to be placed squarely at the feet of the maga US Senate and the maga US Supreme Court...........they were given not once but twice maga Senate and once US Supreme Court to have this person not able to run for office........and the absolute kicker was when the US Supreme court denied the barring of Trump on the ballot in Colorado............

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Moostache

(11,033 posts)
1. RELEASE THE FILES!!!!
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 04:00 PM
18 hrs ago

Trumpstein files are overdue.

Trump raped girls (and boys from what I'm hearing some people are saying)...
Trump is an adjudicated rapist.
Trump is a felon.

RELEASE THE FILES.

Walleye

(43,926 posts)
2. No one should be surprised that the rapist is trying to take things that don't belong to him
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 04:34 PM
18 hrs ago

yellow dahlia

(4,851 posts)
3. "It's hard to be shocked anymore, I know, but we should be shocked,"
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 04:35 PM
18 hrs ago

Insert head exploding emoji, here.

Diraven

(1,842 posts)
5. It's his replacement for the UN
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 05:00 PM
17 hrs ago

Except where Trump gets the deciding vote on everything, based on how much the other countries and oligarchs bribe him.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,682 posts)
8. This is why I can't understand why Canada hasn't backed out, saying "this is a farce"
Wed Jan 21, 2026, 06:54 PM
15 hrs ago

They still seem to be pretending the "Board" is about Gaza.

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