Opponents went ballistic over the weekend after the president compared himself to a king by retweeting a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote that said, "When you strike at the King, you must kill him."
The quote appeared in a New York Times column on the impeachment issue and noted that the president emerged "triumphant" after a Senate trial.
Except that the column, by NYT columnist Peter Baker, cited the original quote by Plato, which referred to "a king," not "the King," and it was critical of the president's attitudes and actions.
Replacing and rewriting quotes is either grammatical ignorance or a deliberate attempt to assume a mantle of monarchy. Neither would be a surprise, given the president's history of misusing and distorting facts to suit his agenda -- assuming he has one.
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