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SvennoJ said:

Haha, yep I didn't get the reference at first either, neither did my wife and she's Canadian. (So she's used to Queen Elizabeth and now King Charles as King of Canada) I was more used to Koninginnedag or Queen's day though, what I grew up with. Anyway both used to King just meaning some (99%) powerless ceremonial state head. I wish Trump was just that lol.

It really should have been "No Dictator Day" but I guess that's still a bit too controversial for the US public. That's what Trump is aspiring to be.

King's day is one of the things I do miss about The Netherlands, always a great day.
(..)

It was a change in name only, thankfully.

But anyway yeah I guess I know what they mean though; a Louis XIV style absolute monarch, who was basically a crowned, heriditary dictator anyway.