'Psychedelic' rebuke from world leader has Trump cornered — and he's lashing out: analyst

During the speech, Wilentz argued that the King reminded Americans of the ideas that the country was founded on, which Trump and the MAGAverse have sought to upend. In one particularly lucid part of the speech, King Charles forcefully rebuked the blood and soil anti-immigrant rhetoric spouted by Trump and his MAGA followers, according to Wilentz. America was the most polyglot place in the world, really, when it was founded, he said. It was founded as an immigrant culture with a multitude of different countries, which was very complicated. So basically it's bunk. It's nonsense, Wilentz said of the anti-immigrant rhetoric. But as you say, it's blood and soil. So, it's inventing an American Anglo-American bloodline in the name of excluding everyone else. I use this word very sparingly, but it has a quasi fascist aspect to it, he continued. That's the only way to describe it, but it certainly is a repudiation of everything that America stood for, which it took the King of Great Britain to point out. It's almost psychedelic watching all of this. Wilentz added that Trump seems to be feeling cornered after King Charles's visit, which may explain why he has relaunched his retribution campaign against former FBI Director James Comey. Now he's actually been cornered in a terrible, terrible way, Wilentz said. But nevertheless, his response is not to ... heal the breach or to try to reach out to people or try to unite the country. It's only to divide it even more.