At first, it was all very dapper. The tea and the crumpets and the fanfare, they were all good and fine.

But then the King of England, King Charles, decided to use his royal prerogative and lecture us on how to run our country, on how America ought to lead the world.

Kingo, shut the hell up. See, here's the thing. There are lots of lessons to be learned from Great Britain over the past century.

The biggest one is this. Don't do what they did. King Charles is currently reppping a civilization

that no longer exists. He's an empty crown sitting atop a civilization that gave up the ghost a long

time ago. There's only one takeaway Americans should have from the king's visit. That if Britain has zigged, we ought to zag. Britain is a cautionary tale. If we follow their path, we collapse the way that they have. Meanwhile, the Democrats tripped over a literal king after shouting no kings for months. The latest on Iran and James Comey is back in the dock. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

So King Charles III made his first visit to the United States and it was all very lovely.

It began with revolutionary soldiers welcoming the king in the Rose Garden, which I have to say was somewhat ironic.

The last king who experienced revolutionary soldiers would not have been welcomed in quite this way,

I would assume. Here is what that looked like.

It won't take long as you get that wrong. Yeah. You could say that's a friendly welcome, but I would kind of think that's actually a bit of an unfriendly welcome if you're the Brits.

Because the last time they had to face down soldiers who looked like that, they lost an empire, actually.

But President Trump had some very nice words for King Charles

talking about America's cultural inheritance from England. And of course, as a student of American

history and as a devotee of British philosophers ranging from John Locke to Edmund Burke,

I love the fact that the United States is rooted in English, in Anglican history, in English history, in British history.

I love it. It's great. Here's the president talking about it.

Here in the shadows of monuments to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson,

honoring the British king might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of American

independence, but in fact no tribute could be more appropriate. Long before Americans had a nation

or a constitution, we first had a culture, a character, and a creed. Before we ever proclaimed our independence,

Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts, moral courage, and it came from a small but

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