> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.europeans.today/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # He’s the “King of the World!” - URL: https://www.europeans.today/2025/05/09/hes-the-king-of-the-world/ - Published: 2025-05-09T00:05:00.000Z - Updated: 2025-05-09T11:22:43.000Z - Description: Donald Trump’s presidency veers wildly beyond tradition, meddling in universities, foreign real estate, and pop culture, pursuing personal gain and power with actions more fit for a monarch than a president. - Author: B. Jay Cooper - Tags: OPINION, Donald Trump, Trump 2.0, United States, US Politics, Trumpism I finally figured out why I haven’t been able to figure out just what Donald J. Trump is doing. I mean, some of the things he gets into have nothing to do with being President of the United States. Things like trying to [tell private universities](#1) what to teach, how to hire, and punishing them by withholding research money that goes to finding cures to diseases, among other remarkable discoveries. Or, renaming international bodies of water like the [*Gulf of America*](#2) or, today, the [*Gulf of Arabia*](#3), by fiat. How about deciding [Canada needs to be our 51st state](#4)? Or [Greenland needs to be owned by the United States](#5) or declaring [retaking of the Panama Canal](#6)? How else can the President and his family make millions of dollars by [signing real estate agreements in foreign countries](#7), making profits off it while he serves as President? No president has done that before! Or, [displaying his for-sale red heads](#8) on the Cabinet table during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet room? No president has ever done, or likely thought of doing that before! Additionally, no U.S. president has said “I don’t know” when asked [if he needs to follow the U.S. Constitution](#9) – a document he has sworn an oath to up twice! No president has [sold cars in the White House driveway](#10) nor has he ever [sold his own crypto](#11) from the Oval Office! No president has extorted business people by [threatening to hold up mergers](#12) simply to punish them to get improved treatment from the media outlets they own (praise be to “60 Minutes” for its weekly stories on Trump overreach, even in the face of its owner caving to Trump’s demands). In just the last few days, he has [threatened tariffs on movies made out of the country](#13) to supposedly bring film-making back to America, he is threatening to engage in [whether college athletes are paid or not](#14), and he has called for the [return of Alcatraz](#15), a museum, as a maximum-security prison. No, my friends, his goal wasn’t to be the President of the United States, his goal is to be the King of the World, and maybe even star in the [remake of Titanic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItjXTieWKyI&ref=europeans.today). Nothing else explains the lunacy and over-reaching of his presidency. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/2021/09/end-flat-1.png) ### **GOING FURTHER** - ###### [Trump threatens Harvard's tax-exempt status after freezing $2bn funding](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz01y9gkdm3o?ref=europeans.today) | BBC NEWS - ###### [US House approves ‘dumb’ legislation renaming Gulf of Mexico ‘Gulf of America’](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/us-house-gulf-of-mexico?ref=europeans.today) | THE GUARDIAN - ###### [Trump set to rename Persian Gulf as the ‘Arabian Gulf’ in snub to Iran, officials say](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-persian-gulf-rename-arabian-iran-saudi-b2746251.html?ref=europeans.today) | THE INDEPENDENT - ###### [Trump refuses to drop ‘51st state’ threat in Oval Office meeting with Carney as Canada PM says ‘never’](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-canada-mark-carney-meeting-state-b2745898.html?ref=europeans.today) | THE INDEPENDENT - ###### [Why does Trump want Greenland and what do its people think?](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74x4m71pmjo?ref=europeans.today) | BBC NEWS - ###### [Trump’s ambition to retake the Panama Canal could have a heavy cost](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/21/politics/trump-panama-canal-heavy-cost?ref=europeans.today) | CNN - ###### [Trump made up to $160 million from foreign countries as president](https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trump-made-up-to-160-million-from-foreign-countries-as-president/?ref=europeans.today) | CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON - ###### [Trump’s loyal footsoldiers doff their Maga caps at cabinet love-in](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/30/trump-cabinet-meeting-maga?ref=europeans.today) | THE GUARDIAN - ###### ['Shocking': Experts question Trump claiming 'I don't know' about upholding Constitution](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/experts-question-trump-claiming-asked-duty-uphold-constitution/story?id=121473077&ref=europeans.today) | ABC NEWS - ###### [Trump turns the White House lawn into a Tesla showroom](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/trump-musk-tesla-white-house-showroom-buys-car-rcna195905?ref=europeans.today) | NBC NEWS - ###### [Senate Republicans raise red flags about Trump's private dinner with his meme coin holders](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-republicans-raise-red-flags-trumps-private-dinner-meme-coin-hol-rcna204293?ref=europeans.today) | NBC NEWS - ###### [Trump is using the power of government to punish opponents. They’re struggling to respond](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/30/politics/trump-punish-opponents?ref=europeans.today) | CNN - ###### [Trump threatens tariffs on foreign films: Who could be hit?](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/6/trump-threatens-tariffs-on-foreign-films-who-could-be-hit?ref=europeans.today) | AL JAZEERA - ###### [Trump Considers Executive Order on College Athlete Payments](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/us/politics/trump-college-athlete-payments.html?ref=europeans.today) | THE NEW YORK TIMES - ###### [What to Know About Trump’s Plan to Reopen AlcatrazWhat to Know About Trump’s Plan to Reopen Alcatraz](https://time.com/7282551/alcatraz-trump-rebuild-open-prison-island-judges-immigration-costs-history/?ref=europeans.today) | TIME MAGAZINE ### --- ### **Sources:** ##### ▪ This piece was first published in [The Screaming Moderate](http://www.bjaycooper.com/blog/hes-the-king-of-the-world?ref=europeans.today) and re-published in Europeans TODAY on 9 May 2025 under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence. | The author writes in a personal capacity. ##### ▪ **Cover:** Grok 3/AI-generated image. ---