US EditionWhite House Posts 'Two Kings' Photo of Trump and King Charles
The post followed King Charles III’s White House visit and echoed a pattern of royal imagery used to elevate Trump, critics said.
- On Tuesday, the official White House X account posted a photo of President Donald Trump and King Charles III with the caption "TWO KINGS" and a crown emoji, drawing immediate backlash.
- King Charles III is on a four-day state visit to Washington, where he addressed Congress and praised the separation of powers as a "great inheritance" from the United Kingdom to the United States.
- Podcaster Spencer Hakimian stated the post left "George Washington rolling in his grave," while journalist Siraj Hashmi described it as "exceptional rage bait." Critics including Aaron Rupar and Christopher Miller said the White House failed to read the room.
- Conservative figures defended the post as intentional political humor. British pundit Piers Morgan jokingly responded, "BREAKING: 1776 revoked, Monarchy returns to America!" while Trump allies mocked critics as humorless.
- The post follows a pattern of White House use of monarchal imagery depicting Trump. Last year, the official account posted an AI-generated image of Trump wearing a crown on a spoof Time Magazine cover captioned "LONG LIVE THE KING.
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On the one hand Charles III, heir of a crown that today administers the prestige of a sumptuous tradition. On the other Donald Trump, who king is not by constitutional definition
White House Posts Photo of Trump, Charles: 'TWO KINGS'
The White House is catching heat for a social media post that seemed tailor-made to provoke, the Hill reports. As King Charles III visited Washington on Tuesday, an official White House account shared a photo of the monarch with President Trump , captioned "TWO KINGS"—a phrase that collides directly with...
During Charles III's visit to Washington, a White House post provoked sharp criticism. A photo of the monarch and US President Trump is overwritten with "TWO KINGS" (Two Kings). Correspondent Michael Wüllenweber reports.
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