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King Trump? Fascist Trump? Or Treasonous ‘No Kings’ Rallies?

When you look at the difference between America and Iran, you see what it actually means to stand up to a tyrannical government.

Richard Blakley | April 2, 2026

President Ronald Reagan once told a story he shared with General Secretary Gorbachev, leader of the Communist Soviet Union, and Reagan said Gorbachev laughed. The story was about “an American and a Russian arguing about their two countries and the American said, ‘Look in my country I can walk into the Oval Office, I can pound the president’s desk and say Mr. President I don’t like the way you’re running our country,’ and the Russian said, ‘I can do that.’  The American said, ‘You can?’  He says, ‘Yes, I can go into the Kremlin to the general secretary’s office, pound his desk and say, Mr. General Secretary I don’t like the way President Reagan’s running his country.’”

While Reagan’s story is humorous, it brings to light the difference between the American government, and monarchic, fascist, and communist regimes.

The fact that the recent 3,000 “No Kings” rallies were allowed to happen shows that these rallies are pointless, stupid, and totally nonsensical.

If Trump is a king or if Trump is a fascist, then how were the rallies able to happen at all?

Can these “No Kings” protestors read?  Probably not, for if they could read they would realize that if Trump’s administration were like the fascist authoritarian theocracy of Iran, then the protestors would either be dead or in prison waiting their public execution, like the Iranian champion wrestler who protested in Iran and was publicly hanged with two other people on March 19,........

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