“If I were president, they wouldn’t have sat me back there—and our Country would be much different than it is right now,” Trump said. “In Real Estate, like in Politics and in Life, LOCATION IS EVERYTHING!!!”
- Donald Trump via Truth Social, 20th Sep 2022¹.
Possible criminal, likely approver of insurrection, and innocent until proven President of the United States, Donald Trump, said last week of the state funeral of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of the several nations of the Commonwealth, that had he been invited, that he wouldn't have sat so far back down the nave of Westminster Abbey.
Now I do not know if this is because he thinks that his own preeminence is such that it wafts through the world (in which case I would suspect that he may need to consider Axe, Rexona, or Brut 33²), or because he thinks that as President of the United States that he personally projected power because nobody knows as much about power as him³.
As I understand the seating plan of the state funeral, in the front pews were the immediate family and friends, who let's not forget are the relatives and friends of Elizabeth the person; followed by the heads of her immediate government and societies which she was either the patron of or the direct legal owner of (these institutions are generally mace bearing); then followed by the representatives of governments for which the monarch is represented by Governors and Governors-General and the associated Premiers and Prime Ministers; then followed by the representatives of governments for which the monarch is not represented but whom still have a connection through the Commonwealth of Nations; then followed by other representatives of governments, of which President Joe Biden was one of many.
I note that Mr Biden was in the general sort of area within Westminster Abbey, where people like Emmanuel Macron of France, Olaf Scholz of Germany, and Fumio Kishida of Japan sat. This is still a better seating position than the vast majority of the 60 million citizens and taxpayers of United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland who actually own and paid for this shindig.
Not to put too fine a point on it, the fact that Justin Trudeau of Canada was seated closer to the front of Westminster Abbey than Mr Biden was, was probably seen my Mr Trump as some kind of affront to a weird nationalistic jingoism; not withstanding the fact that the United States of America literally fought a war to be rid itself of the monarchy. The reason why Mr Biden sat so far back down the nave of Westminster Abbey, that Mr Trump was complaining about, has its root cause in the very reason why Mr Trump actually got to be the President of the United States in the first place.
Now I could have this completely wrong but I take Mr Trump at his literal word and assume that he would take action to move the President of the United States further forwards in the seating plan of a state funeral for a newly departed monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of the several nations of the Commonwealth, the we have to assume that Mr Trump would likely apply for readmission into the Commonwealth.
What a top idea!
Admittedly there are other nations such as India and South Africa who have left the Commonwealth of Nations and reapplied as republics but I think that we have to assume that Mr Trump is deathly serious and that he would not apply to join the Commonwealth as a republic but as a reconstituted monarchy.
America has a really weird political system which has been copied by exactly zero countries in the world. The reason for this is that it is completely bonkers hatstand mental. Nobody in their right mind would actually conceive of inventing a series of constitutions with that kind of presidential/gubernatorial/dictatorial lack of oversight. Not even Japan which twice suffered having nuclear fire inflicted upon it actually opted to go for the American system of government; what they ended up with is something that looks surprisingly similar to Westminster style government.
In principle, most democratic countries in the world place executive government into the hands of a cabinet formed on the floors of the chambers of their parliaments. Not so the United States. America invented its completely bonkers hatstand mental form of government with reference to nobody at the time because in 1789, there was no sensible alternative form of government other than the parliament at Westminster and America was having none of that. Consequently, America invented a system of government which places more power into the hands of the President than even the King of England had at the time; but without the usual protocols of having the cabinet come from parliament.
If we are to take it at face value that Mr Trump wants to apply for readmission into the Commonwealth; with significant constitutional reform that would place him as Prime Minister of the United States, then his request to be seated further up in the seating plan of a state funeral, might be accepted.
If we assume all of that, then the actual distance achieved would be likely no more than about 4 rows forward because I think that the total governmental delegate from the entirety of the Commonwealth of Nations amounted to 85 people. 85 people divided by 24 per row, is 3.51 rows. 3.51 rows would mean that the Prime Minister of the United States would be as far forward as the Prime Minister of Canada, Prime Minister of Australia, and Prime Minister of New Zealand; who all share dominion status. The Commonwealth of the United States would likely be another constitutional monarchy with a Govenor-General and the Prime Minister in cabinet drawn from the House of Representatives; like Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
If though what I suspect is true, Mr Trump was trying to make even the state funeral of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second about himself; which is simply not cricket.
¹https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109027351625916609
²Where would you be without Brut 33?
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