The White House’s official X account called President Donald Trump a “King,” as King Charles III lauded checks and balances while speaking to a joint meeting of Congress.
Speaking during a joint meeting of Congress Tuesday afternoon, King Charles drew cheers and applause after praising the separation of powers that replaced the British monarchy in the former U.S. colonies, calling it a “great inheritance” that was passed down from the United Kingdom to the United States.
However, while he was in the midst of his address, the official White House X account shared an image of the monarch and the U.S. president captioned, “TWO KINGS,” along with a crown emoji.
Lawmakers on Tuesday gave King Charles a standing ovation as he spoke about the U.S. being built on the idea of checks and balances — especially as it pertains to the executive branch — based on the Magna Carta.
“Our Declaration of Rights of 1689 was not only the foundation of our constitutional Monarchy, but also provided the source of so many of the principles reiterated – often verbatim – in the American Bill of Rights of 1791,” he said.
“And those roots go even further back in our history: the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances.”
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