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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

King Charles schools Trump on democracy in speech to Congress about checks and balances

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

MS NOW, Jen Psaki

Politics, News, Ms Now, Versant Media, Versant

4.4975 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki shares part of King Charles' speech to Congress in which he explains the importance of checks and balances in a functioning democracy to the very people who have abdicated their responsibility to be a check on Donald Trump.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I just want to start by showing you what the scene look like at the White House today.

0:05.3

And what I'm about to show you, I swear is not AI. It's not from a cold open of Saturday

0:10.6

night live. This is real video that our White House team here at MS now shot today.

0:18.8

Now, what you're looking at is the official welcome ceremony for the royal visit of King Charles,

0:24.5

and it's kind of hard to miss the enormous crane looming over the ceremony as construction of Trump's ballroom proceeds.

0:31.4

Believe it or not, that construction was actively ongoing during the event itself as a wannabe king stood with an actual king

0:41.9

right by his side sometimes the imagery is just it's a little too on the nose but as awkward at

0:49.7

all as all of that was this morning the really awkward moment came a few hours later,

0:54.4

when the literal King of England, typically a non-political, kind of boring speechmaker,

1:00.7

used his speech to Congress in part to remind them of how democracy and executive power are supposed to work.

1:07.2

And here he was talking about the shared legal and historical roots between America and Great Britain.

1:14.7

The U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases in 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances.

1:37.6

Sick burn there, King Charles. I mean, to be clear, that was the King of England, obviously. You know,

1:43.9

the head of the same monarchy this country

1:45.6

was founded to reject, who just told the American Congress how important it is to put checks

1:50.9

on the power of an executive, as in, hey guys, in the audience, come on in, listen closely. I'm looking

1:58.5

at little, you little Mike Johnson. Your literal job is to behave

2:02.4

like a separate branch of government, to hold the executive branch to account. And remember that

2:09.0

the reason the king is here today is because of Trump's obsession with royalty. He's obsessed.

2:15.6

Trump loves to think of himself as a king, and he's not shy about it, and he loves all the things

2:21.0

that come around the monarchy.

2:23.0

And the White House even posted this image of Trump and King Charles with the caption,

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