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The Minority President is actually the Potentate.
The guy who lost the popular vote is actually better styled as Potentate Of The US (POTUS) than as President.
New citizens have to disavow allegiance to foreign "potentates". Now we have one here.
noun
1. a person who possesses great power, as a sovereign, monarch, or ruler.
1350-1400; Middle English < Late Latin potentātus potentate, Latin: power, dominion.
1. a person who possesses great power, as a sovereign, monarch, or ruler.
1350-1400; Middle English < Late Latin potentātus potentate, Latin: power, dominion.
tRump possesses power, even if he is illegitimately sitting in the Oval Office. The power must be respected (and resisted) even though he must not be personally respected.
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