Bill the what now?
Donald Trump’s trip to Windsor last week was a history lesson, albeit one from which the president drew worrying conclusions. He has been raving about all of the things he learnt while in the castle, but one name stood out in particular. “William the Conqueror… that’s the coolest name I ever heard,” the commander-in-chief ominously told the American Cornerstone Institute. “He was known for winning wars,” Trump added, proving that there are no flies on him, but he also said he’d asked the current King “Why don’t we call you Charles the Conqueror?” The sovereign and sometime biscuit-maker told Trump that this wasn’t really his style.
He was unfamiliar with the name William the Conqueror. CRIIIIIIIIINGE
Charles II was awesome.
Chuck III made a good choice in regnant name. Although he cannot possibly live up to it.
A google search for ‘King Donald’ lobbed me into a whole piule of stuff from Disney featuring Donald Trump, I mean Donald Duck, but the only real one was “Donald III (Medieval Gaelic: Domnall mac Donnchada; Modern Gaelic: Dòmhnall mac Dhonnchaidh; c. 1032–1099) … King of Alba (Scotland) from 1093–1094 and 1094–1097.[1] He was known as Domnall Bán or “Donald the Fair”, anglicized as Donalbain.”
The wig fits; sort of.
Omar, might Disney be considering making a cartoon film about “King Donald” and his trials and tribulations then? But it would be very fitting if “King Donald” had as small a part in the movie as Donalbain has in Macbeth. I quite understand the confusion with Donald Duck, who never stops quacking.
He is dumber than the rock he lives under.
And such a baby! King. Conqueror. Castle. Parade. Sojers. Fire truck. Siren. Whee! Shiny! Look at MEEEEEE!!!
Given his proclivity for insisting that nobody ever knew xyz before he articulated it, howsoever trivial xyz may be, it’s a small relief that he didn’t present William’s epithet as a discovery of his.
Oh, and it’s also worth noting that William was also known – much more contemporaneously – as William the Bastard.
Does Trump know that Billy the C spoke French?
How could he? He’d literally never heard of him until the other day.
Well, wait till he finds out.
Ask Trump to pronounce Guillaume le Conquérant.