(Letter to the Editor - Photo Illustration - MetroCreativeConnection)

The so-called “No King” rallies are meaningless, as we have no king. We have a president, duly elected, by 77.3 million voters. The number of citizens attending “No King” rallies is allegedly 7 million, although most estimates have the number at closer to 1 million. “No King” organizers love to inflate their numbers to give their cause greater significance. Either number is a small percentage of our population.

A “kingdom” would allow no “No King” rallies. A king would imprison (or execute) protesters against his “reign.” Were Trump king, he would have ordered Senate Democrats to reopen the government and stop causing anguish to Americans.

Ex-president Biden was a king wannabe, attempting to imprison his political rivals. Where were the “No King” rallies then? Biden’s weaponized DOJ/FBI was illegally spying on 200 members of the rival Republican party. Had Kamala Harris become president, with the same Obama-Biden bureaucrats running the country behind the scene, our country would be a dictatorship today.

It was five Senate Democrats, not President Trump, holding the government in a shutdown, as leverage, in an attempt to enact their unpopular socialistic agenda, which includes taxpayer funded free healthcare for illegal migrants and an extension of the failed “Obama care” healthcare system, which needs repealed or at least modified to be workable.

The Democrats also want the spending of taxpayer money on DEI and child sex changes in African nations, among other things.

The “woke” senators, who were holding the government hostage in the shutdown need voted from office in 2026 and 2028, including RINO Republicans, who vote against the interests of Americans.

Democrats are criticizing Trump over his construction of the much needed Big Beautiful Ballroom at the White House. When presidents hold state dinners for foreign dignitaries, massive tents are erected on the White House lawn, with port-a-johns, due to inadequate space, within the White House. This will change with the Big Beautiful Ballroom completed and at no cost to taxpayers.

In the Senate, is a Republican-sponsored bill, which would prevent senators and congressmen from receiving their pay during a government shutdown. Other government workers aren’t paid during a shutdown. Thus, senators and congressmen who shut down the government shouldn’t be paid either. Our “representatives” should feel the pain of a shutdown, like other Americans. Maybe then, senators and congressmen would be less likely to shut down the government in the future.

Steve Wolverton

Parkersburg