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Hi Lemon Nation. I'm Tara Setmayer, co-founder and CEO of the Seneca Project, and this is

the Setmayer Soundoff.

All right, America, we're now a month into this Trump-Musk dictatorship, I mean presidency,

and it's been unlike anything this country really has ever experienced.

Fair to say, the shock and awe of all of this has been by design.

You understand that, right? It's to wear us down and distract us and frankly to condition us

to the chaos and this whole strongman rule as being normal. But part of the plan is to break the

country so that Trump can just swoop in and say, oh, look, I fixed it.

Only I alone can fix it. Remember that? But it sounds more like a ruler than an American president,

right? Right? I mean, right now we're watching Donald Trump publicly declare himself a king.

And I'm not talking figuratively, literally.

The official White House Twitter account actually tweeted out an image of him wearing a crown

on a fake Time magazine cover. Now, this was referencing New York City's controversial traffic

congestion pricing thing, which is a local issue. I don't know why he's

weighing in on it. But the tweet said, congestion pricing is dead. Manhattan and all of New York is

saved. Long live the king. I'm sorry, what? Think about that for a second. We have an American

president actively embracing the idea that he

should rule like a monarch. But this isn't a one-off people, okay? Over president's state weekend,

Trump posted again on Twitter or wherever, he said, he who saves his country does not violate any

law. This is a quote attributed to

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