Now that Donald Trump has secured domination in the United States with control of both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, similar foreign domination beckons. He has, most graciously, agreed to serve as Chairman of the Peace Board overseeing Gaza’s transitional governance: “They asked if I’d be the chairman of the Board of Peace. I wasn’t counting on that … but I said yes,” he demurred. Chairman of the Gaza Board of Peace is not an indirect form of oversight like that of a colonial viceroy. Trump, it has been proposed, could assume a direct position of control. Based on historical precedent, he should not be allowed to extend his domestic power to Gaza without formal legitimacy.

First, in terms of Trump’s domestic domination, there are numerous references to Donald Trump as a monarch. Writing in the New York Times about Trump’s remodelling the White House, American designer Debbie Millman noted: “Donald Trump has made his mark on democracy. But his plan to extend the East Wing of the White House is a permanent altering of the people’s house and an extension of the Trump brand…Mr. Trump is showing the world that his presidency is a royal court where a select few are invited to pledge their allegiance… Mr. Trump is refashioning the presidential residence into a palace; our democracy is now a members-only club.” (italics added) The headline of the article: “Trump’s Louis XIV Moment.”

References to Trump as a monarch are not only about........

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