This year is full of celebration for America’s 250th birthday. In 1776, our Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, creating this incredible nation and working toward structuring the government under the Constitution. It’s a government that shed the tyrannical monarchy structure of Europe in favor of representatives and the separation of powers, all based on the core principles laid out in the Declaration.

The mostly white elderly hippies who took to the streets this weekend for yet another series of “No Kings” rallies must’ve forgotten that we haven’t had a king for 250 years.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson amusingly quipped that “the only people who care about these Trump derangement therapy sessions are the reporters who are paid to cover them.”

Since part of my job is analyzing Leftmedia nonsense, I’ll also take a crack at these rallies. And I’ll start by noting that Donald Trump was duly elected by the American people as president, not king. He has taken some brash actions in his first 14 months back in office, but he is nowhere near acting like a monarch. The courts have struck down some of his orders, and he has worked with Congress to do (or not do) other things.

In process, his governance is not all that different from previous administrations — particularly those of Barack Obama and Joe Biden, for whom these perpetual malcontents were completely silent.

“Prices are going up, and it feels like we can’t even afford to live anymore,” said one Minneapolis resident that The New York Times says “was dressed in a 15-foot puppetlike costume resembling the singer Prince, a local icon.” (Get it? Prince, not King. Insert rimshot here.) He added, “This is one of the ways we can say we’re fed up.”

Dressing up in a 15-foot Prince costume is a lot of things. A way for people to take you seriously is not one of them.

Emblematic of the age demographic, the Times concluded by quoting an 81-year-old lawyer about his history of protesting: “The protests I participated in during the 1960s mattered then, and they sure matter now.”

Organizers of the rallies in numerous U.S. cities claim that eight million people attended, but, like Trump is wont to do, I’ll bet they overestimated. Even the Times thinks so.

In Minneapolis, a location organizers elevated due to the recent deaths of two agitators at the hands of ICE and Border Patrol agents there, septuagenarian rocker Bruce Springsteen sang his anti-ICE anthem “Streets of Minneapolis.” Also, according to the Times, “Jane Fonda, an icon of activism against the Vietnam War, addressed the crowd.”

One paper’s “icon” is another man’s traitor. Hanoi Jane will always be infamous for her disgraceful photo op with the North Vietnamese communists while they were torturing Americans a short distance away in the “Hanoi Hilton.” Let’s just say her credibility never recovered.

The rallies were mostly peaceful — like, for real, not in the CNN sense. Predictably, however, several of the “No Kings” protests turned violent, with police making arrests in Dallas, Los Angeles, and — wait for it — Portland.

As House Speaker Mike Johnson said, it brought together “the Marxists, the Socialists, the antifa advocates, the anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far-left Democratic Party.”

Speaking of Hamas, there were people waving Palestinian flags and women dressed up in “Handmaid’s Tale” outfits that are meant to depict some kind of Christian nationalist theocratic dystopia, but more accurately depict the radical Islamic societies run by Hamas and the Iranian mullahs.

Moreover, these rallies have a lot of financial backing. According to Fox News, “A network of about 500 groups with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues is behind the coordinated nationwide ‘No Kings’ protest Saturday, including communist groups who are using the day to call for a ‘revolution.’”

There is a lot of foreign money in the left-wing protest movement, which might explain why these “No Kings” yahoos tend to support Nicholas Maduro, the late Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.

Also, I’m old enough to remember when foreign interference in our political process was frowned upon.

But that’s the rub, isn’t it? To these protesters, the problem isn’t foreign money or kings, it’s that they’re not in charge right now.

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