NEW YORK.- The White House equated President Donald Trump on Wednesday with a monarch by publishing a false cover of Time magazine where the president appears with a crown and in which the phrase “long life to the king” is read.
The publication celebrates the blockade carried out today by the administration of the Republican of the controversial toll of 9 dollars to access the center of the island of Manhattan, a measure that implanted the state of New York only a few months ago.
“The tolls have died. Manhattan and all New York are saved. Long live the King! ”Wrong the White House, textually citing a Trump message published today on his social truth network.
On the “cover”, Trump appears smiling on a background where the Manhattan landscape and some of his most emblematic buildings, such as Empire State Building or Chrysler are appreciated.
On his head, instead of the name of the renowned magazine, his last name is highlighted in capital letters.
New York state governor Kathy Hochul reacted to Trump’s comment self -defining as king stating that “we are a nation of laws, not governed by a king.”}
He pointed out that the Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA), in charge of toll, has initiated “legal procedures in the Southern District of New York to preserve” the measure.
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The Republican announced that on his return to the White House he would get rid of this toll, which had the goal of reducing pollution in Manhattan and raising $ 15,000 million for the MTA.
The US Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, communicated his decision today in a letter to Hochul and argued that the toll “is slapped in the face of the working class (from the country) and the owners of small businesses.”
Despite the opposition of the Trump government, in the first week of February, traffic on working days within the toll area was reduced by 9% at an interannual level, according to the MT.
With EFE information
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