Monarchical slop

AI slop -- the crazy stuff when AI starts to hallucinate or people use it to do really stupid things -- is in the news regularly, and the media are constantly being warned to avoid it.  But we need to pay attention to monarchy slop -- the crazy things that reputable publications will disseminate when it comes to the British royal family.

Here from CBC News no less, is a story about how Donald Trump's respect for King Charles is what has saved Canada from annexation.  

Now any sentient person knows that Donald Trump does not do respect. He is not into friendship. But this Charles-saves-Canada story seems to get all kinds of space, as if it were a real story with political significance  Here is Susan Delacourt, national affairs columnist at the Toronto Star, taking the whole thing at face value.

Thanks to a British author, we learned this week that all the 51st-state talk is now on the back burner for two reasons: one lies in Trump’s respect for King Charles, and, maybe more significantly, the president doesn’t have enough time to annex this nation.

Look into this story, and one learns it's from "a prominent royal commentator" with a new book being serialized in the Daily Mail. He reports that he happened to be chatting sociably with the American president when the matter came up. Does this happen? Did he buy a membership at Mar-a-Lago, possibly?