'Bare minimum': Britain decides no palace
stay or parliamentary speech for
Trump in low-key state visit
Washington Examiner,
by
Rob Crilly
Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx,
6/1/2019 1:41:08 PM
Opening his speech to British parliamentarians in 2011, President Barack Obama said, “I have known few greater honors than the opportunity to address the Mother of Parliaments at Westminster Hall." It is an honor that will not be extended to President Trump next week during his first state visit to Britain, one of a number of differences from the trips made by his predecessors. British and American officials have played down concerns about protests and insist that Trump is being afforded every bit of the usual hospitality — from dinner with the queen to bilateral talks with Theresa May, the prime minister.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
planetgeo 6/1/2019 2:00:31 PM (No. 88584)
Cowardly fools, bowing to the will of their barbarian invaders and domestic traitors, thus further enabling the slide toward "Mediocre (no longer Great) Britain". Someday their children and grandchildren will erect a statue of President Trump in Trafalgar Square alongside that of Horatio Nelson, for awakening and saving their country as well as Western Civilization.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
susieq1 6/1/2019 2:16:34 PM (No. 88591)
Their loss in not honoring the greatest American President, John Donald Trump.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Tundrarider 6/1/2019 2:24:34 PM (No. 88596)
I love our president! To Parliament he is a loose cannon. Because the Brits were deeply involved in the Russiagate thing; I believe they are afraid he will call them out in public while addressing their body.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
ravenhaven 6/1/2019 2:33:27 PM (No. 88598)
Deep six the visit. Why spend time in a third rate backwater? Go instead to the Czech Republic, Italy or Hungary whose governments get it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/1/2019 2:43:36 PM (No. 88600)
I hate the Brit’s. Choke on your crumpets you ungrateful buffoons.
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With friends like these...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Jebediah 6/1/2019 2:50:58 PM (No. 88605)
More fools they. But this is NOT a first as I recall a vast number of upper class Brits (Lady Antonia Fraser, she of the multiple beds, etc.) writing a letter demanding Americans NOT vote for Bush. (I also recall how they loved the bowing Obama, whose gift to the Queen was DVR's of his speeches, in the wrong format!)
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lil dotty 6/1/2019 2:56:50 PM (No. 88611)
As #2 said,
"Their Loss".
The future for them looks hopeless.
MAGA continues, with or without them.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Cindiana 6/1/2019 2:59:07 PM (No. 88612)
Are they so foolish as to think he won't have the final word?
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Fine with me so long as they don't come begging, as is their habit, when there is yet another boot on their neck. The same for all the Euro-trash. I can't help but notice that the ledgers are way out of balance with them receiving all the benefit. Special relationship and all that - go rot.
America first.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Grounded 6/1/2019 3:17:42 PM (No. 88622)
Bilateral talks with the lamest of lame ducks, Theresa May? That ought to be productive.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 6/1/2019 3:17:58 PM (No. 88623)
The Russia Hoax started here in GB with MI6 and some others in academia. I'm sure most of you have read the various post about this subject here on Lucianne. The Brits have bought into the sexism and racism crap that has been spread by our disgusting MSM. The Brits have insulted him and his family, and us, with this snub. Well, let me say this.The world will take a few more turns and the Donald will have the last word. When will the idiots of the world learn not to mess with Trump.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Mother of AL 6/1/2019 3:23:52 PM (No. 88632)
Sorry brits. This will NOT distress Mr.and Mrs Trump. They live in a 2 story apt decorated in 24 carat gold, on the top of a 30+ story building THAT THEY OWN. The Queen’s crappy cement building only a few stories high AND that has to continually be scrubbed of the soot, belongs to the British people. If the brits ever get rid of the Monarchy others will be using it for a vacation home. Don’t think Mr. and Mrs Trump are going to waste much time missing the opportunity to stay there!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/1/2019 3:34:20 PM (No. 88642)
The Examiner shows its true lefty roots. I thought that after Obama and the Mooch and their security demands and helicopter landings, no American president would ever be invited to stay at the Palace.
I am fine with what will happen. And if there were some snubs, we can ignore them. Americans have long memories. And having licked them when it mattered, hundreds of years ago, we can afford to be bigger than they.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MeiDei 6/1/2019 3:36:02 PM (No. 88643)
What number of Brits dislike Trump vs. the number of Americans who voted for him? I wonder if Harry will be cordial, aloof, disproving or absent from any function President & Mrs. Trump attend. If he can't put on his outwardly gracious manner, he should stay home with his wife and new baby.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DoneinCalif 6/1/2019 3:37:40 PM (No. 88644)
Why is he even going. We should make damn sure that when the "royals" come here especially that POS who married Harry get the same treatment.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 6/1/2019 3:40:22 PM (No. 88645)
Maybe they are still a bit miffed over that July 4, 1776 declaration.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/1/2019 3:41:44 PM (No. 88646)
Bi-lateral talks??? Like bi-lateral heads up Poker. I've got 100,000 chips and you've got 50? Talk all the trash you want idiot. It's just entertainment. And apparently dinner's on you.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Johann 6/1/2019 3:42:11 PM (No. 88647)
Trump should cancel the visit.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 6/1/2019 3:45:49 PM (No. 88649)
Some former American Presidents have tried to gain prestige from these visits to the Brits. Our current President has made his own way into the highest ranks of international finance. Rubbing shoulders with dissolute royalty brings no positives, nor does pandering to a shabby Parliament so so pathetically at odds with its own people. The Windsors can’t seem to keep their own house in order—-why should our good President give a second thought to what they think? The seed is running pretty thin with the Hanoverians these days.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
earlybird 6/1/2019 3:58:31 PM (No. 88652)
Not apt to be repeated. This photo becoming hard to find.
https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01903/michelle-obama-win_1903888c.jpg
And what will Melania wear to Westminster Abbey?
https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01420/mobama_1420529c.jpg
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Why is he going?
President Trump is going to the UK for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings to represent the USA, where thousands of American, British, and Canadian military members gave their lives for their countries in the Allied effort to defeat the Nazis.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Wizard of is 6/1/2019 4:00:48 PM (No. 88655)
The people of Great Britain are in turmoil over Brexit and view trade with the US as their safety net y separate from Europe. Their government is controlled by opponents of Brexit. One wonders if these calculated insults directed toward DJT are intended to provoke him to make some angry statement that would undermine support for Brexit. Of course our president supports Brexit and is far too smart for such games.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
cartcart 6/1/2019 4:43:25 PM (No. 88676)
Those palaces may be a step down from what he is used to.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/1/2019 4:46:09 PM (No. 88678)
#21 Trump is going partly out of simple courtesy and mostly out of respect for the US troops who ran up a beach into a hail of bullets for their country and Britain and France. I do not want our president to be so rude as to not respect our history.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 6/1/2019 5:03:06 PM (No. 88688)
I am glad he is going to have a good dinner and visit with the Queen Her subjects might be idiots, but IIRC, she is the first foreign head of state to indicate a desire to have visit from Trump. If left to their own devices, I think Trump and HM would get along famously. It is her children and the grandsons by Charles that are the idiots.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Wendybird 6/1/2019 5:22:44 PM (No. 88700)
England was a great country through history and through the service of Winston Churchill. Like so many European countries, sadly declined since. Presently reading “The Gathering Storm”, written by Churchill following WW11. Much of the present world attitude resembles the British attitude following WW1. Just ignore it and it will go away. President Trump resembles Churchill in having his eyes open.
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Sad...Brits of all people....
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/1/2019 5:40:45 PM (No. 88714)
So, PDT is not allowed to stay at the palace but the Brits went to the expense of installing bullet proof glass in the palace windows when smidgen stayed there. I sincerely hope that Trump zings the Brits on his way out of their fast becoming a shiitehole country.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/1/2019 5:43:18 PM (No. 88718)
#29 I don't know how old you are, hopefully less than my 70 years. Have read "The Gathering Storm " 5 times now , most recently in light of Obama's Iran dealings. it's pretty frightening actually. For my grandchildren.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
watashiyo 6/1/2019 5:53:08 PM (No. 88725)
Har har hardy har har! So long as the Brit taxpayers are paying for Trump's room and tax plus the buffet meals, I'm "A Okay!". They can protest all they want until their face turns blue. As for the 3rd rate ex-hollywood actress, ex-wife of somebody and ex-girlfriend of somebody, decides to avoid a royal Luau with Trump, ....who cares!
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23, I've almost forgotten what it was like to be represented by the First Clown.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Nimby 6/1/2019 6:07:43 PM (No. 88732)
POTUS should say that he is canceling his trip because of disrespect. And also demand that the pansies turn over Steel for prosecution in the USA.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
bad-hair 6/1/2019 6:29:19 PM (No. 88742)
OMG #29 My apologies. I guess I misread your post. This world is in danger of nuclear war because nobody (Obama) understands that these (Iranian) people are serious.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
QueenVictoria 6/1/2019 8:06:44 PM (No. 88795)
Sadly my British family has become so indoctrinated by their media that that are shocked when I intelligently discuss the opposite point of view. They wish our President were a little more genteel but where has approach helped UK and weenie EU, except at gin & tonic cocktail parties???? MAGA!!
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
DARling 6/1/2019 8:48:42 PM (No. 88809)
This just tells me the Brits can't control their anarchists and Muslim immigrants. It is a sad commentary on the British situation more than it is an insult to our president. I do think it is outrageous that the royal family would knuckle under to pressure and not invite the Trumps to stay at the palace. I guess all they are good for is giving speeches and cutting ribbons at immigrant welcome centers.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Robert Jones 6/1/2019 8:55:06 PM (No. 88812)
He should bring Michael Savage as part of his retinue.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/2/2019 5:10:52 AM (No. 88919)
This isn't surprising, especially since it has been disclosed that the Brits were heavily involved in the coup against our president.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Sam1 6/2/2019 6:11:45 AM (No. 88932)
Anyone who still thinks we have a special relationship w/the Brits or that they are our friend is smoking dope and skipping rope.
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Why would Trump want to stay in a dump like the Palace? Surely there is a Trump Hotel within Marine 1? No?
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