No Kings? Look Who Is Holding the Crown

The "No Kings" protests have been spreading across cities in America. The banners are familiar. The social media posts repeat the same message. Donald Trump is acting like a monarch, dismantling democracy, and must be stopped by ordinary citizens who care about freedom and the Constitution.

I want to say something about this that most people are not willing to say plainly: the people organizing and funding these protests are the very people who have been functioning as kings for decades. This is not a political talking point. It is a pattern that the Book of Mormon warned us about with extraordinary precision, and once you see it, you cannot unsee it.

The Oldest Tactic in the Playbook

There is a rule of thumb that I have found consistently reliable when trying to understand what powerful people are actually doing: whatever they accuse their opponents of, that is what they themselves are doing. They call Trump a dictator while they controlled every president before him. They call him a threat to democracy while they own the media, the courts, the intelligence agencies, and the financial systems. They call him a king while they have been pulling the strings of every elected official in Washington for longer than most of us can remember.

The reason they cannot use those same mechanisms on Trump is simple: he does not answer to them. For the first time in over a century, the person in the White House was not chosen by, groomed by, or beholden to the network that controls everything else. They had total control over Bush, Obama, Biden, and virtually everyone else who came before. They could get exactly what they wanted. They cannot get what they want through Trump. And that is precisely why the machine has been running at full speed against him since before he was ever elected.

The protests are not a grassroots uprising. Follow the money, as they say, and you will find a network of nonprofit organizations and activist foundations funded by some of the wealthiest individuals on earth — people whose names appear repeatedly wherever governments are destabilized, wherever currency is attacked, wherever social unrest is manufactured for profit. This is not a conspiracy theory. The funding trails are publicly documented through tax filings and foundation disclosures available to anyone willing to look. These same networks have funded what researchers call color revolutions in other countries using nearly identical organizing tactics. Now those tactics are being applied here.