Victor Davis Hanson: If You Think Trump Is a ‘King,’ Just Look in the Mirror

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

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Who’s more of a “king”: Donald Trump, who ran for election three times, won the popular vote, the Electoral College, and all the swing states in 2024, or Joe Biden, who was appointed by Democratic Party elites in 2020 to be the nominee after losing the first three primaries and remained sequestered to his basement for the remainder of the campaign? Monarchs conduct lawfare. For all his talk in 2016 about “locking her up,” President Donald Trump did not direct his administration to investigate Hillary Clinton, however, Trump “had 91 indictments filed by federal, local, and state prosecutors in cahoots,” points out Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” “Joe Biden, in 2020, had lost the first three caucuses or primaries. He was going nowhere. And then a group of insiders, politicos, donors, the media panicked because they knew that to nominate a Elizabeth Warren, a Pete Buttigieg, especially a Bernie Sanders, would destroy the Democratic ticket. “So, they cooked up this idea that Joe Biden from Scranton—even though they knew he was already cognitively challenged—could be a veneer, a wax effigy. And then they did not allow him to campaign because we know what happens when he campaigns, as we saw in 2024. “He sat in the basement under the pretext of COVID. He outsourced his campaign like a royal monarch to his underlings in the media. They got him elected. And then he, more or less, abdicated while on the job and let the hard Left, in this quid pro quo arrangement, run the country.” 👉 This episode is sponsored by the Pepperdine School of Public Policy. Learn more: ⁠https://go.pepperdine.edu/dailysignal⁠ 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1⁠ 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enable notifications: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 👉More exclusive content is available on Victor’s website: https://victorhanson.com 👉The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: ⁠https://secured.dailysignal.com/⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	300 sensors.
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0:10.0	AWS is how.
0:13.0	From fastest laps to strategy calls,
0:15.0	AWS puts fans in the pit.
0:19.0	It's not just racing, it's data-driven innovation at 200 miles per hour.
0:24.6	AWS is how leading businesses power next-level innovation.
0:29.6	Supposedly millions of people nationwide have hit the streets under the banner of no kings.
0:35.6	I guess that means that Donald Trump is a monarch.
0:39.3	Kings don't have elections.
0:40.3	They were just appointed by birth or a privy council.
0:44.3	Some kind of insider appoints this person or that person if there's not a royal error in succession.
0:49.3	Joe Biden in 2020 had lost the first three caucuses or primaries. He was going nowhere. And then
0:55.5	a group of insiders, political, donors, the media, cooked up this idea that Joe Biden from
1:00.8	Scranton, he sat in the basement under the pretext of COVID. He outsourced his campaign
1:05.4	like a royal monarch to his underlings in the media. They got him elected and then he more
1:10.5	or less abdicated while
1:12.1	on the job. For those on the left who were worried about kings taking over the country or violating
1:17.3	our freedom, look in the mirror.
1:32.4	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal.
1:41.6	We've been witnessing supposedly millions of people nationwide have hit the streets under the banner of no kings.
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