Scott Adams Gives Trump Top Marks For How He Reframed ‘No Kings’ Nonsense

There are a few orthodox responses the journos would have expected from a Republican leader being accused of acting like a dictator or king. You’d think, by now, they’d learn he doesn’t play by their usual rules.

Any other Republican, if he was accused of playing the part of an authoritarian would have had a short list of obvious answers.

Whichever of those responses they went with, they would all work on the same premise: take the accusation seriously, and undermine the truth claims made by the accusor.

Trump knows that even accepting the premise of the accuser is to play the game by the opponent’s rules. It’s a little like the ‘do you still beat your wife’ question, where to answer the question is to lose the game.

His answer takes the question as being unserious in nature. Instead of grappling with the accusation, he makes it look ridiculous by holding up a fact that is plainly obvious to anyone looking on, letting that accepted fact do the heavy lifting of making the allegation look silly.

Scott Adams explains:

Trump’s No Kings Reframe@realDonaldTrump “I’m not a king. I work my ass off to make our country great.”@ScottAdamsSays “Even his biggest critics will admit he’s working his ass off.

So he creates this frame where you can’t really hold it in your head, the hard worker part,… pic.twitter.com/l5dRgwwRrb

— jay plemons (@jayplemons) October 20, 2025

While leftists are still cooking up ways to push the 25th Amendment nonsense, Trump is running circles around the press, while ‘working his ass off’ as President.

Are you taking notes, GOP? Because the presstitutes will keep trying this cynical trick until EVERYONE learns how to defeat it.