Trump critics react to immunity ruling with dark jokes, memes of ‘King Biden’
By ALI SWENSON
Anti-Trump influencers and meme accounts on social media are reacting to the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling by suggesting Biden should take advantage.
Social media posts darkly joked that Biden should pack the courts, imprison Trump or postpone the November election, shielded by his newfound presidential immunity. Others made reference to “King Biden” or shared images depicting the president in a crown.
Rick Wilson, co-founder of the anti-Trump organization The Lincoln Project, posted on the social platform X to “thank the Supreme Court for granting Joe Biden godlike official powers.”
“I think his first step should be to declare all Trump golf courses as protected Federal wildlife preserves and seize them by eminent domain...it’s an official act, so it’s cool, right?” Wilson wrote.
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Pelosi laments a Supreme Court she says has ‘gone rogue’
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement after Monday’s immunity ruling that the Supreme Court had “gone rogue with its decision, violating the foundational American principle that no one is above the law.”
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Pro-democracy advocate: Immunity ruling gives presidents
“king-like” power
For future presidents, the immunity ruling is an “open invitation to abuse power,” said Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy programs at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University.
“This is much worse than I expected, than I was even contemplating as an outcome,” she said, adding that the decision gives “virtual king-like immunity for the president.”
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Man, I don't know. I took it as a given that critics recognized that presidents had some immunity. No immunity at all? The Constitution gives special powers to the president, like to wage foreign wars, to command state militias at home, to veto laws, powers you and I don't have. I'm willing to admit that I'm wrong on this case but it's really the position of some that a president could be prosecuted for waging an unjust or incompetently commanded war? For calling out state militias when it wasn't necessary? For vetoing some law?
