DAILY MAIL – President Donald Trump has declared himself a ‘King’ in an explosive social media post.
Trump’s reference to himself as a monarch came after his officials moved to halt New York City‘s unpopular traffic congestion pricing system.
The president, a New York native, wrote on Truth Social: ‘Congestion pricing is dead. Manhattan, and all of New York, is saved. Long Live The King!’
White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich then shared the message along with a picture of Trump dressed in the regalia of a king.
He appeared to have used Elon Musk‘s new Grok 3 AI chatbot to make the image.
An official White House social media account also posted a fake Time magazine cover that replaced ‘Time’ for ‘Trump’ and showed the president grinning and wearing a crown.
It came days after Trump issued a similar post echoing France‘s Napoleon Bonaparte.
Trump wrote: ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.’
