Declaration grievances against King George III compared to Trump
The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. Happy 250, America!
Stephen Wolf37“… to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government …”
Katiesaurus9with all 27 in the alt text
Citizen Harry 😷🥄⚙️💚🍉2"Quartering troops" means soldiers knock on your door, take over your living quarters, & force your family to be their servants; cooking & cleaning for them, & forcing you to pay for it all without reimbursement - he hasn't actually done that one. What he's done with ICE lately is close to #25...
j-kindz.bsky.social1The first battle of the American Revolution was fought over much less than what Trump has done. Many of those 27 grievances were a result of what Britain did later in the war.
Squeaquy1I’d argue he’s also guilty of numbers 2 and 22.
Grudgie the Whale50This really is everything right here
Stephen Wolf37“… to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government …”
Olivia Hill34I think it's pretty abundantly clear what we need, then. Anyone denying it at this point is delusional.
TrumpsTaxes10I guess we need our own Declaration of Independence from wannabe-King Donald.
victoria rose, serious cattegirl4he definitely did number 2 recently with the housing affordability act, and we can count the more recent foreign wars as 25, lmao
PlanetCarnival3I've said it before, but it's worth repeating: The "United States" did not actually come into being until the constitution was ratified in 1789. However disheartening our current crises may be, the 4th of July is really about the Declaration of Independence. It remains a document worth celebrating!
The Gray Matters Report3and he's definitely orgasmic about number 22
“It was stunning to realize how closely many of the grievances our founders asserted toward King George III mirror the issues we are facing with the tyrannical despot currently occupying our White House.“ www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-i...
RCJH908Some of us have been saying that was coming since late 2015. The media and congress havent done their jobs.
continentaldivide.bsky.social5The patterns of tyranny are remarkably consistent. Which is why the right’s previous obsession with ‘tyranny’ and their current indifference to the real article is so corrupt and grotesque.
Kurt Weldon3It's amazingly obvious - as long as one is not a Supreme Court justice.
Obitum ad Tryannis-DEATH TO TYRANTS3Can you imagine in the future Lin-Manuel Miranda writing a musical about us overthrowing Trump?
Inverted Pyramid2He’d take that as a compliment.
aclieberman.bsky.social2George Washington in his farewell letter to the American people warned against Donald Trump in all but name.
Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)
LibrarianWriterGeek14Okay, but "b_franklin_GrittyOG" broke me. Because that is 100% Franklin.
Panda Express7You left the tracked changes on
Dom Ervolina5It's also why Franklin refused to write it because he knew they would edit it down relentlessly and he wasn't willing to deal with it
Winter5Franklin was a great editor and Jefferson was the country's greatest diva. I think he probably died mad about it, honestly.
Steven E Schend5That last line almost makes me want to read Jefferson’s autobiography…and while I’m sure there’s substance to be found there, I’m not sure I need to spend too much time reading any prevarications to justify his slaveholding
Éibhear Ó hAnluain5How they all laughed when Franklin quipped that the final changes were "self-evident" because no one had double-checked that all the tracked changes had been "accepted" in "Declaration FINAL v2 - SIGNED.docx".
dallas10imagining a world where independence day is on like 10 july because one guy didn't click through the docusign link in the email before going on vacation for a week
J.D. Buffington4We should be holding Constitutional Congresses at regular intervals (10? 25 years?). Something that gives enough time to see what needs clarifying and adjusting because of societal and environmental changes. We should be making new amendments or addendums all the time. It was supposed to be alive.
This Day (A History Podcast)3More in our episode this week on the big group writing project that was the Declaration of Independence podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Betsy Cazden2Trivia: The first local printing, the one that was read in the RI General Assembly, had a misprint and read "June" instead of "July." They had to do a rapid redo to correct it before distributing it to towns. RI Historical Society holds copies of both the misprint and the redo.
Half of the Declaration of Independence is a list of 27 specific grievances lodged against King George III and his regime. 250 years later, many of these grievances apply to the reign of Trump.
reread the Declaration of Independence in advance of the Fourth of July, and the list of all the injuries that the British crown inflicted on the colonists straight up reads like Trump's to-do list www.thenation.com/article/soci...
I think of it as one part of his bucket list. Another part is checking off the biblical items to be an Antichrist. The man has some serious life goals.
Prophesy Not Punditry3The next set of articles of impeachment against Trump should be a paraphrase of the Declaration of Independence.
bskwitter.bsky.social1I intend to pass out copies of the Declaration in my neighborhood tomorrow, for this very reason.
Thad20I remember during his first term, the NPR Twitter account was tweeting the entirety of the Declaration of Independence, and a bunch of MAGA people lost their shit because they thought they were talking about Trump.
John P. Cummings2We agree. #NoMoreKings #WeThePeople have #NoKings #WeDontDoRoyaltyHere #WeThePeople #Resist
A doctor friend thinks Trump suffers from porphyria, a genetic disorder characterized by confusion, agitation, and paranoia. King George III had the same thing and they treated him with leeches and arsenic, which today is known as the GOP healthcare plan.
amyg89072It’s funny that you should mention King George III on July 4th. Did you know that Trump just talked to King George III yesterday?
[The Great War & Modern Memory]2I'm cleared to handle leeches. And I'm sure I can pick up rat-poison at a hardware store. I can cure this disease.
putawomanincharge.bsky.social1This is a real possibility. And the ending would be fun to watch.
Lluisa1In medicine we are taught to look for donkeys, not zebras. So I think Trump is just an old, obese narcissistic jackass.
The Globe is going back in time to 1776. The Continental Congress voted to adopt a Declaration of Independence from King George III. Read the day's news from Massachusetts and beyond. globe.com/1776
Yvonne Abraham25So proud of this! Spend a little time with the Globe today!
Celsius Pictor11Este es el trabajo en el que he estado implicado estas semanas. Hoy 4 de julio, EEUU celebra el 250 aniversario de su Declaración de Independencia y The Boston Globe ha creado una edición física y digital de su periódico, ilustrado con ilustraviones hechas por mi mano, como habría sido en 1776. 🙏
ellen teapot 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️6Ooh, be sure to mention how the mean old Crown won’t let the colonists exercise their divinely-ordained right to ethnically cleanse the Ohio Valley.
Celsius Pictor3The Boston Globe is going back in time to 1776 with my illustrations!!! In a digital edition, but also in a traditional print newspaper, we celebrate the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Great work, team! Thank you for counting on me!
It's about time for the annual list of the grievances in the Declaration of Independence that Trump has committed. Let's see what we have recently...
Anna Kornbluh10good morning let’s draft it up
Paul Rosenberg5🎯🧵"So far he's gotten to a solid majority of the grievances, and arguably we could count a couple others."
Invalid Handle Guy3I remember when NPR did their annual reading of the Declaration and trump supporters got all mad because they thought NPR was talking about trump
Ok so I am of the Schoolhouse Rocks era and…I don’t ever remember being told that King George III was mad until the movie came out, which was clearly set—it was a major plot point—until years after the Revolutionary War?
Clara Jeffery55Anyway the idea that we were taught that the reason that there was growing tension between colonists and the crown was his mental health…no.
Ernest Defarge5His first severe and lingering episode wasn’t until 1788-89, so after 1776, but he did have a less severe and short-lived bout in 1765, but it was significant enough to prompt a regency bill in Parliament in case he was incapacitated.
Capitalist Oppressor1I don’t recall thinking he was crazy. I remember taxation without representation.
Heidi Finan1Queen Charlotte (of Bridgerton genre, Netflix) does a spin on it. The wigs make it a hoot.
Gail Helt1Pretty sure he wasn’t “mad” until a breakdown about a decade after our revolution. This discusses it a bit. www.biography.com/royalty/king...
The Declaration of Independence repeatedly names transgressions of King George III not because he's merely a symbolic figurehead, but because he was the driving force behind the intransigence of his ministers in Parliament refusing to treat with colonial complaints.
Patrick Chovanec40Had the American Revolution truly been a revolt against Parliament in favor of an even stronger executive, the natural outcome would have been to make George Washington king. And that very explicitly did not happen.
Jas Easterly3Perhaps Thiel isn’t as smart as people give him credit for. The beauty of the Declaration is its clear-minded determination—there’s no cryptic, Dan Brown plot behind it.
Brian Ouellette2Maybe he missed the dozens of “Facts submitted to a candid world” that specifically name King George III
RetiredFed2Still fair to say Trump is more authoritarian, corrupt, and madder and less comoetent than King George III. That does not help Theil's argument, just shows we need to impeach Trump.
