Americans of conscience may be casting around for a phrase or even a word that captures the repulsive spectacle this week of King Charles III and Queen Camilla of the United Kingdom being wined, dined, and treated almost like the Founding Fathers of the United States by the U.S. President Donald Trump, a joint session of the U.S. Congress, and almost the entirety of the fawning establishment media. The two arrived on April 27 for a four-day state visit to the United States, in order to celebrate, according to Buckingham Palace, “the historic connections and the modern bilateral relationship” between Britain and the United States—all in the context of the celebration of the 250th year of America’s freeing itself from British colonial rule.

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche called it a travesty.

In her April 29 weekly webcast, Zepp-LaRouche stated about the king’s visit: “I think it was a travesty. And obviously, it’s up to American patriots to remedy this disaster,” such as those represented by the independent candidacies of Diane Sare, who is running for U.S. president and Jose Vega, who is running for Congress in New York’s 15th congressional district (the Bronx). Zepp-LaRouche elaborated: “It was an amazing spectacle. I think there are several aspects to be noted. The most obvious one is that it was a blatant attempt to completely wipe out the memory of what the American Revolution was all about, that it was, after all, a war of independence against the British Empire … and to completely replace it with what Trump unfortunately called the ‘Anglo-American Revolution’—as if this would be one piece, as if it could have been a joint venture, when one was clearly directed against the other.”