emperor

Legend has it that when the emperor's favorite concubine fell ill, a two-week diet of sugar-coated hawthorn berries ultimately healed her.

They yearn for the era of kings and emperors.

Not until 1867 would France achieve a colonial dream in North America, with the brief, catastrophic “reign” of France’s puppet emperor, the Habsburg prince Maximilian, in Mexico.

In times past visiting dignitaries would give emperors gifts and tributes.

This is the statement of a president who believes that he is above the law and is a type of Caesar, king, emperor, Napoleon…. or worse.