President Trump and Melania are welcomed to Clarence House after spectacular reception at Buckingham Palace including a 21-gun salute and lunch with the Queen (Daily Mail)
Donald and Melania Trump left Washington for the UK on Sunday night and landed at Stansted at 9am
He’s flown to US Ambassador’s residence in Regent’s Park before events with the Queen and Prince Charles
Prince Harry will meet Mr Trump and Melania – but Meghan Markle will stay away looking after baby Archie
Tonight Her Majesty will host a State Banquet in his honour – but mass protests will be taking place outside
London Mayor Sadiq Khan compared Trump to ’20th century fascists’ in a column Trump called ‘nasty’
As Mr Trump landed he tweeted: ‘He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me’
Members of the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery fire a 82-gun double gun salute in Green Park in central London on June 3, 2019 to mark the beginning of the State Visit of US President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump and the 66th anniversary of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Trump meets queen, escalates feud with London mayor
By Jonathan Lemire and Kevin Freking, AP, June 3, 2019:
LONDON (AP) — Mixing pageantry and political pugilism, President Donald Trump opened a state visit to Britain on Monday by drawing a smile from Queen Elizabeth II and stepping up a long-running feud with London’s anti-Trump mayor before his plane had touched down on English soil.
Trump and his wife, Melania, flew by helicopter to Buckingham Palace, landing on a lawn where Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, greeted them. They received a deafening royal gun salute as they walked to the palace where a waiting queen smiled at the president.
Those were the images sought by a White House eager to showcase Trump as a statesman while, back home, the race to replace him — and talk of impeaching him — heated up. Yet Trump, forever a counter-puncher, immediately roiled diplomatic docility by tearing into London Mayor Sadiq Khan.
With the trip already at risk of being overshadowed by Brexit turmoil, Trump unleashed a Twitter tirade after a newspaper column in which Khan said Trump did not deserve red-carpet treatment and was “one of the most egregious examples of a growing global threat” from the far-right to liberal democracy.
″@SadiqKhan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly “nasty” to the visiting President of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom,” Trump wrote just before landing. “He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me.”
US President Donald Trump and his wife Melania were greeted Monday on the grand lawn of Buckingham Palace by Queen Elizabeth II with a Guard of Honor formed by the Grenadier Guards wearing the traditional bearskin hats. (June 3)
The president added that Khan reminded him of the “terrible” leader of his hometown, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio though “only half his height.” De Blasio, a Democrat, is a longshot candidate in the 2020 presidential race. Khan supporters have previously accused Trump of being racist against London’s first Muslim mayor.
The president then added warm words for his hosts, tweeting that he looked forward “to being a great friend to the United Kingdom, and am looking very much forward to my visit.”
The agenda for Trump’s weeklong journey is mostly ceremonial: a state visit and audience with the queen, D-Day commemoration ceremonies on both sides of the English Channel and his first presidential visit to Ireland, which will include a stay at his coastal golf club.
During the palace welcome ceremony, Trump and Prince Charles inspected the Guard of Honor formed by the Grenadier Guards wearing the traditional bearskin hats. Royal gun salutes were fired from nearby Green Park and from the Tower of London as part of the pageantry accompanying an official state visit, one of the highest honors Britain can bestow on a foreign leader.
But the U.S. president arrived at a precarious moment. He faces a fresh round of impeachment fervor back home and uncertainty on the other side of the Atlantic. British Prime Minister Theresa May has faced months of political turmoil over Brexit and French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to use the 75th anniversary of the World War II battle that turned the tide on the Western Front to call for strengthening multinational ties the U.S. president has frayed.
A sense of deja vu quickly spread around London as Trump barreled into the visit.
A year ago, Trump also took aim at his hosts before landing on English soil, blasting May in an interview hours before she hosted him for dinner. Though he has spared May so far this time, he has praised her rival, prime ministerial hopeful Boris Johnson, just days before May steps down as Conservative leader on Friday for failing to secure a Brexit deal.
“I think Boris would do a very good job. I think he would be excellent,” Trump told The Sun. “I like him. I have always liked him. I don’t know that he is going to be chosen, but I think he is a very good guy, a very talented person.”
It was not clear if the Trump endorsement would hurt or help Johnson’s chances of becoming prime minister. Trump said he may meet with Johnson this week.
Never shy about weighing in on other countries’ affairs, Trump also told the Sunday Times that Britain should “walk away” from Brexit talks and refuse to pay a 39 billion pound ($49 billion) divorce bill if it doesn’t get better terms from the European Union. He said he might meet with another pro-Brexit politician, Nigel Farage, and claimed Farage should be given a role in the Brexit negotiations.
After lunch with the queen, Trump was shown parts of the collection at Buckingham Palace, including an 18th-century map of New York, historic photos of golf at St. Andrews and books about birds and George Washington. Westminster Abbey was next, with a tour and moment of silence at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior.
He will be honored later Monday at an extravagant state dinner at the Palace. Demonstrators are expected, including the possible return of a balloon depicting the president as a baby.
Even some of the pageantry could produce awkward moments. A formal tea hosted by Prince Charles brought together a future king who has warned repeatedly about the perils of climate change and a president who is actively dismantling U.S. policies designed to slow global warming.
LONDON, ENGLAND – JUNE 03: King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery ride off through Green Park following their gun salute to honour President Trump’s state visit and to mark the 66th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s coronation on June 3, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
In an interview with The Sun, Trump weighed in on the American-born Duchess of Sussex. The former Meghan Markle, who gave birth to a son in May and will not attend the week’s events, was critical of Trump in the past, prompting the president to tell the tabloid, “I didn’t know that she was nasty.”
Trump said later he thought Markle would be “very good” as a royal and claimed he only meant her comments were “nasty.”
Trump will also make his first presidential visit to Ireland on Wednesday, spending two nights at his golf club in Doonbeg, which sits above the Atlantic. After Dublin balked at holding a meeting there, a deal was struck for Trump to meet Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar at the VIP lounge at Shannon Airport, hardly the grand setting usually afforded a meeting of world leaders.
The centerpiece of the president’s visit will be two days to mark the 75th anniversary of the June 6, 1944, D-Day anniversary, likely the last significant commemoration most veterans of the battle will see. The anniversary events will begin in Portsmouth, England, where the invasion was launched, and then move to Normandy, France, where Allied forces began to recapture Western Europe from the Nazis.
The day is normally a heartfelt tribute to unity and sacrifice, outweighing any national or political skirmish. But some on both sides of the Atlantic are nervous about Trump, who has shown a willingness to inject partisanship into such moments.
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And WHY are those threat levels ALWAYS high, Kahn job since YOU took over as Mayor?
I’m so confused, on another day you will claim it is “part and parcel of living in the city” but that wasn’t true till YOU became the first MUSLIM mayor and yet another day you will claim that ‘London is safest city in the world’ – CNN Video https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2017/03/23/amanpour-london-mayor-sadiq-khan-safest-city.cnnWhich is it?
Islamists and Communists make common cause
– because they are both forms of tyranny
– and tyrants usually help other tyrants
– just the way Maduro in Venezuela
– is helped by Cuba, Russia, China
– and Iran
Believe it or not, my Jewish doctor’s last name is spelled “Kahn”.
felix1999
4 years ago
Mayor Kahn Job is not British. He HATES the U.K.. Kahn Job is as British as Hassan Rouhani if he had been born in the U.K.. Being born in a country doesn’t make you a patriot. Kahn job should be stripped of citizenship and sent back to Pakistan. He is a disgusting POS.
The purpose of all tyrants, including Islamists
– is to make our lives worse
– so we are easier to subjugate
– if we do not overthrow the tyrant
– then he will make our lives progressively worse
– while he makes himself and his power circle
– richer and richer and more powerful
– Sadiq Khan is part of the post 9/11 attack on the UK
Wow !!! You did well. You have a wonderful record. I just wonder what the above figures are going to be in a year or so. I do understand that you are at present busy composing Trump and Farage hate phrases which with your brain capacity will keep you busy for a long time to come.
“And if you like your slimy tentacles…
– You can keep your slimy tentacles”
– Obama
Michelle
4 years ago
Your ever so typical muslim is this creature and in all slimy facets.
DemocracyRules
4 years ago
Good for “Queenie”
– and may she find some way
– to be succeeded by a good monarch
– Princes Charles and Andrew are terrible
– and as head of the UK armed forces
– a bad monarch can do terrible damage
felix1999
4 years ago
Nobody cared about Megain Markle. No on ever head of her or her “acting” till she started dating Harry. Megain is liberal trash and doesn’t represent decent U.S. citizens in any form. For Brits that adore her – keep her! We don’t want her back or any exceptions for dual citizenship. If Harry had not been a Prince, she wouldn’t have had the time of day for him. Notice how people like like Meghan and her “friends” have to marry white men for upward mobility and continued wealth. Even after that, racist Megain Markle still vomits her racism with –
British Universities need to change. “It’s male, stale, pale and too white” culture,even though she married a WHITE guy for money and status.
Ah Poppey we are mates on the same side ! I just hate her being identified as a “typical” U.S. citizen. She is not. This household has extreme disdain for people like her. My spouse is British so we are cheering for you. We sincerely want what is best for your country in particular. If the situation were reversed, I would understand the dark sarcasm and I hope you take that in the right spirit. I only wanted to point out, that just because she is a legal American citizen doesn’t mean we want liberal trash or defend it just be cause she is an American citizen. She would fit better in Germany. or Sweden.
We are cheering on the good UK people!!!!
We are also encouraged to see BREXIT people pushing on.
felix – friends never have to apologise, you’re great, the missus is a lucky girl to have you and never fear, as you say, one day MS will do a “runner” and break Harry’s heart.
In him, she has the roll of her life, she’ll dine off it for the rest of her life.
Meghan is in a White Country & she is shocked!????????
I feel bad for the Brits because if Meghan gets her way she will try to change everything that she feels is too White.
I really hope her kid came out white with red(orange) hair.????????????????
Poppey
4 years ago
If any on here wish to help along Anglo American relations, please grab Miss M Sparkles, stuff a sugar dummy in her gob, and drag her back to LA {where she can clean up the mess on the streets we’ve just seen}. You get Harry for free.
As for Prince big ears, any grown man of 70 who insists his newspaper is ironed flat before his toothpaste is squeezed for him, has little of value to teach the world let alone a self made man who BEAT 17 other candidates to get where HE is today.
Please America, don’t take that grissly crew too seriously, just think of them as a kind of British version of the munsters, the political establishment {who are more powerful and obstructive than Americas} wheel them out when they want a loin cloth to cover for what and who they are, but the royals have skeletons in their cupboard too.
P.S. Thanks for that chlorinated chicken and expensive selective private health care,no offense, you may keep both
Don’t worry. She won’t last long with Harry. She will tire of a restrained lifestyle and eventually divorce him. You can not bottle up a liberal like her forever. She won’t be able to handle that. Apparently Harry truly does love her…. I’d bet she offers the best sex he ever had. That is all she would be good for. She’s been around the block more than a few times….. I hear she is considered to be a “geriatric” pregnancy so maybe after one more baby, via IVF, she will have the confidence to call it quits with Harry and be financed by Harry for life. She is an unabashed self serving gold digger.
Harry is her third marriage and each time she married up via a white guy. She doesn’t want to marry a black guy…. Nah, it has to be a white guy. I hope whoever calls the shots sends Harry, Megain and Archie to Africa indefinitely. Megain does not identify with blacks or Africa. It is the elite that categorizes her as identifying with Africa and blacks. I find that hilarious. Her role will be the “diversity” poster girl for the royal family. Her disregard for “tradition and customs” will be applauded as “modernizing” the royal family. She has no regard or love for the U.K. or the U.S.. She is a leftist wrecking ball. She will only offer embarrassment and shame. I am truly sorry about that…
Megain is nothing more than hypocritical liberal trash attaching herself onto a white male for wealth and status that she could never achieve. Megain has no talent or ability to amount to more that a pile of dog dirt. Just look at her Obama endorsing family – yes they are all leftist Hillary/Obama supporting trash of black and white skin color. Trash comes in all colors and socio economic classes – and I know you realize that. I’m just venting my utter disgust with hypocritical people like Megain.
No, megain is half black, half Jewish, have you yet again, forgotten Jewish minds consider themselves a race, not white? Based on Hitlers definitions of them! As for Harry, despite the Royal protestations majority of Brit population, believe he is progeny of Hewitt, a mere commoner in eyes of the Royals! Its all a farce! We Brits don’t give a stuff about the Royals, they are extremely capable of hanging on to their privileges, despite public not wanting to keep them in the life style they have become accustomed to? Meagian has simply joined a bunch of sharks, similar to herself, she will do well from it, but, she has no idea how deadly they can be?
When the Mafia came to the UK, in 60s London, & threatened the powers that be, they were quickly shown the door! UK was run by the Royal Mafia, they were having none of the US Mafia Muscling in on their territory! They are still capable of defending what they consider theirs! Then their is Diana?
You should control your emotions,its not a Mulatto we don’t want, its an entire Royal Family, an Elitist class, considers itseld divine, with Gods divine right to do so, as if? Nor do we wish to continue to pay for them or any add ons such as Meagain, & her progeny!
Meghan is not half Jewish.
She was a Catholic! She married a Jewish man in her first marriage, but she never converted. Her father is white & NOT Jewish. Her mother is African American & NOT Jewish either. I don’t know where you got your info from, but you are wrong.
Re. the ëmbarassment and shame”, one needs look no further than the excruciating circus of a wedding, with that black pastor – truly mortifying. The Queen must have been dying inside!
Her parents are long gone.
I think she can call it her house now
Millionmileman
4 years ago
I am sick and tired of the total BS negativity in most of the media. LQQK at the beautiful photos, in the Daily Mail. Just for the record my grandfather was one of the masons who built the statute that Trump’s limo passed. He helped “Build That.”
I welcome President Donald Trump. sadiq khan is just another low IQ muslim promoting imigration or should I say promoting islam in our English capital. And all of those who are speaking out against President Trump can go and do one. The one thing these people are or maybe are is british, which means they reside in the British Isles, the one thing they and khan will never be is English. Long live the Queen and long live President Donald Trump.
Drew the Infidel
4 years ago
Two things about this visit not mentioned in the article are worthy of notice:
1. First Lady Melania was absolutely gorgeous and elegant in her role as an ambassador and representative of our nation as opposed to the ape woman who was her predecessor.
2. Unlike the UK and other populations in Europe, upon visits by world leaders from other nations the US public has more class and character than to parade derogatory baloon caricatures down the city streets.
Trump 2020!
az
4 years ago
The queen has a long time on the job and understands politics. Sad dick can’t doesn’t. He doesn’t work for the british or England.
He’s just the spearhead of the political jihad to establish a full englandistan. He serves the islamofacists interests, not the British ones.
notislam
4 years ago
Mayor Kahn , the moslem -mayor, is just projecting with his NASTY REMARKS ! His continual pissed-off attitude and the destruction of London shows that islam DESTROYS all it is in contact with and always has done this. This is a fact that is 1,400 + yrs. old. He will meet with bad karma as he draws it to him. Thumbs down to mayor Kahn!
Charles Martell III
4 years ago
The Queen must have enjoyed Trump’s comment about the insignificant London Mayor . . . she likely has a similar opinion! The Queen knew Winston Churchill, one of Englands greatest leaders . . . does Trump remind her of Winnie?
Mike Kevins
4 years ago
They need to hire Trump to negotiate the Brexit deal. He might even get them a free Razamataz clear coat thrown in! lol
Kwitcherbellyakin
4 years ago
Some people overstep their authority. The number of Muslims in Great Britain has risen. Tradional English values are overshadowed by bureaucrats Like Khan, who have replaced traditional Brits. Khan preumes to speak for all of the Londoners, as well as the rest of the Muslims inhabiting England at present.
(The Brits were always Colonizers, so this is a payback that France enjoys as well. Spain would too, but it is not as wealthy).
Anyway, Khan is not really liked by the Royals, though a few have conspirated with Nazis as well as terror organizations. Khan thinks he runs England, and his Trump balloon idea would not wash under any other government. He is supposed to be the mayor of a city, but he is taking on international politics as his job, and nobody has stopped him.
I wish the Queen well, but she is old, and Royalty will one day end. There won’t be a King or a Queen, only a bunch of people on their knees, touching their foreheads to the ground in prayer, running things. And the average Brit can’t legally defend himself from Islamic violence without breaking the law. Sad.
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