Donald Trump's UK visit (June 3-6) - Live Thread

[TomSea]

Donald Trump's UK visit: Five potential diplomatic flashpoints
By James Landale Diplomatic correspondent

Donald Trump is making a much-delayed state visit to Britain this week.

Over three days the US president will be hosted by royalty and politicians. He will also take part in commemorations to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

But behind the pageantry lie policy differences that divide Britain and the United States.

Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48472822

Trump says Boris Johnson would be 'very good' as next UK prime minister
David Milliken

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump threw his weight behind Boris Johnson’s campaign to be Britain’s next prime minister and urged all candidates to pledge to boost defense spending, in a striking intervention ahead of his state visit next week.

“I think Boris would do a very good job. I think he would be excellent,” Trump told the Sun newspaper about the former foreign secretary and leading Brexit campaigner, who is a front runner to succeed Theresa May as head of the Conservative Party.

Trump arrives in Britain on Monday for a three-day state visit at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth before attending World War Two commemorations in France and visiting Ireland.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-britain-trump/trump-says-boris-johnson-would-be-very-good-as-next-uk-prime-minister-idUSKCN1T12NN

Okay, new thread here, the EU election thread will probably get a non-sticky for now. Anyone with any ideas on this thread, topic or who cares to run it themselves is welcomed. I just thought, we might get the jump ahead of time.

[EdJames]

[TomSea]

So, Trump is going to meet Macron at Normandy after the UK visit and maybe anything else?  Meeting the Irish PM... so, we'll see if anything else develops.

The Atlantic article:

Don’t Expect Trump’s Europe Trip to Go Smoothly

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Next week is Trump’s latest chance to ditch Chuck and Nancy, peel himself away from cable television, and present himself as a head of state operating on a bigger stage. Queen Elizabeth II will host him at a state banquet in Buckingham Palace on Monday, making him just the third U.S. president to be so honored (Barack Obama and George W. Bush being the others). Over the following days, he’ll mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day at ceremonies in Britain and France, and hold face-to-face meetings with outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar.

Read more at: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/06/donald-trump-d-day-europe-smoothly/590839/

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7095815/Buckingham-Palace-calls-Prince-Andrew-golf-course-diplomacy-Trumps-state-visit.html

[Right_in_Virginia]

From: “Gearan, Anne”
Date: June 2, 2019 at 8:35:07 PM EDT
Subject: POTUS travel pool 1/ JBA

Greetings from JBA, where the president and first lady disembarked Marine One at 8:32 pm

Boarded AF1 with a wave at 8:33 en route to London. (+5 ET)

Accompanied by Sarah Sanders, Hogan Gidley, Kellyanne Conway, Mick Mulvaney, Dan Scavino, Steven Miller, Sec. Mnuchin, Rob Blair, Derek Lyons, Emma Doyle, Dan Walsh,
 Stephanie Grisham, (Among others)

No Trump children accompanied the president on this flight.

Rolling shortly.

Flight time approx 8 hours.

See you on the other side of the pond.

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[mystery-ak]

Trump fans sing 'For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow' as Queen greets him at Buckingham Palace

Trump fans sing 'For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow' as Queen greets him at Buckingham Palace
by Rob Crilly
 | June 03, 2019 08:10 AM



Queen Elizabeth II greeted President Trump with a warm smile and a booming double gun salute at Buckingham Palace on Monday, as he began his first state visit to the U.K.

They set aside the controversy of his arrival tweets — criticizing the mayor of London — to focus on the ceremony, pomp, and pageantry of the formal occasion.

Trump and the first lady arrived aboard Marine One to be met first by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, before being welcomed by the Queen, 93, who looked vibrant in mint green.

A handful of Trump waiting outside Buckingham Palace erupted in a spontaneous chorus of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow,” in a small reminder that for all the expected protests Trump is more popular here than in many other European countries. They ended with a "hip hip hooray."

more
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-fans-sing-for-hes-a-jolly-good-fellow-as-queen-greets-him-at-buckingham-palace

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Many photos here
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7098297/The-Donald-landed-President-Trump-Lady-Melania-touch-London.html

[libertybele]

Love our FLOTUS!  She looks very "American" in style, but fits right in with the royalty!

[austingirl]

Melanie looks elegant. Ivanka looks like a linebacker in her white outfit with immense shoulders and bulky arms.

[Right_in_Virginia]

PIERS MORGAN: The real big baby in London this week is Mayor Khan - a petty little pipsqueak who'd shamefully rather mock and humiliate the President of Britain's greatest ally than honor the D-Day heroes of both our nations
Daily Mail/UK, Jun 3, 2019, Piers Morgan

This week, we commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the D-Day landings, the largest seaborne invasion in history.

It was the crucial turning point in the war with Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, one that began the liberation of German-occupied France and laid the foundations of the Allied victory on the Western Front.

It was also the moment that most perfectly exemplified and cemented the special relationship between Britain and America, the two nations that provided the vast majority of those who fought the ferocious battle on the beaches.

There were at least 10,000 Allied casualties, with 4,414 confirmed dead.

They, along with everyone who took part in D-Day, will be remembered in a special ceremony in Portsmouth on the south coast of England on Wednesday, attended by the Queen, President Trump and 300 veterans.

That is why Trump has come to Britain for a three-day state visit.

He’s not here as a private individual.

He’s here as the democratically elected President of the United States, still Britain’s greatest ally.

As such, he represents the 320 million citizens of the U.S. including many who have personal family connections to the D-Day landings and World War 2.

So how has Mayor of London, England’s capital city, responded to this trip?

The answer is with quite staggeringly offensive rudeness.

Sadiq Khan, who’s been Mayor for three years, launched a series of savage attacks on President Trump in the past 48 hours, both in print and on television, branding him a ‘fascist’, a ‘growing global threat’, and demanding Britain should not be ‘rolling out the red carpet’ for him because it was ‘un-British’, adding that he was ‘the antithesis of our values in London and as a country’ and his ‘divisive behavior flies in the face of the ideals America was founded upon – equality, liberty and religious freedom.’

Mayor Khan also authorized, again, the flying of a giant orange Trump baby blimp over the Houses of Parliament during the visit, specifically designed to mock and humiliate the President.

By doing all this, Khan knew exactly what he was doing, and that was to create a firestorm of hatred towards the American leader and to whip up bigger protests against him than might otherwise have occurred.




He’s been joined in this unedifying campaign of anti-American negativity by numerous other senior British politicians including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable, Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow and even by some of the media who should know better, like SkyNews who unwisely used the blimp to promote their coverage of the visit.

The politicians have all raced to denounce the state visit, refuse to attend a banquet in the President’s honor, bar him from speaking to Parliament, and all but condemn Trump as the worst human being that’s ever existed.

Little wonder than that when President Trump arrived in the U.K. this morning and read all this, he responded in kind.


Much more:  https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7099055/The-real-big-baby-London-week-Mayor-Khan-whod-shamefully-mocking-Trump.html

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The Queen looks rather fierce in this one.   

[DCPatriot]

The Queen looks rather fierce in this one.   

She's smirking.   She uses hat pins.   

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Ivanka looks like a linebacker in her white outfit with immense shoulders and bulky arms.

Did you catch the outfit with the hat??   




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Did you catch the outfit with the hat??   




@austingirl

Working the frumpy look I see.

[mystery-ak]

Working the frumpy look I see.

Must shop where Tiffany does...

[mystery-ak]

Camilla Parker Bowles's wink during Trump visit goes viral
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/446697-camilla-parker-bowless-wink-during-trump-visit-goes-viral

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