President Donald Trump has increasingly embraced monarchical imagery, as he continues his drastic moves to remake the federal government in his image. “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED,” Trump wrote Wednesday on Truth Social, the social media site he owns. “LONG LIVE THE KING!”

New York City’s elite have never shown much love for Donald Trump, turning their noses up at what they considered his tacky real estate developments, gauche reality television show and right-wing political movement.