The US President has been raised to adore our Royal Family, so King Charles brutally putting Donald Trump in his place will prick his fragile ego more than being snubbed for the Nobel Peace Prize. As a little six-year-old in 1953, sitting with his Scottish mum, Mary, in their New York home, young Donald watched with awe on TV as Queen Elizabeth II was crowned, with the pair supposedly never leaving their seats all day.
The two-time US President still has a hankering for his ancestry, snapping up golf courses in Scotland and revealing how his mother was “enthralled by the pomp and circumstance, the whole idea of royalty and glamour.” On his most recent UK state visit banquet, Trump sat beside Catherine, Princess of Wales, and left so captivated he later hailed her as “radiant” in his speech – he reportedly loves William and King Charles too, but is no fan of Harry.
We do share some common ground, then!
Anyway, you can imagine how upset and angry the capricious Trump will be to discover Charles has put him in his place right and proper – something Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer never seems able to do.
Trump, 79, told The Telegraph he believed our monarch would “have taken a very different stand” on the Iranian conflict than the UK Government.
Ahead of the King’s expected State Visit to the US later this month, Trump said of him: “I like him. I always liked him as a prince. He’s a good man, a great representative for your country.
“I think he would have taken a very different stand [on the war in Iran], but he doesn’t do that. I mean, he’s a great gentleman.”
The royal superfan added that Charles is “a friend of mine” and said the King had “nothing to do with” the tensions between the US and the UK over the Iran war.
He went on: “I have a great relationship with King Charles. I’ve known him a long time. “He’s a wonderful and brave man, to be honest with you. He’s been through a lot, in many ways.”
But in response to Trump’s suggestion about Charles backing his war in the Middle East, a Palace source reportedly hit back brutally with a simple five-word put-down: “The King is above politics.”
Charles is set to make a state visit to the US at the end of the month, marking his 20th trip but his first as King, and it will include a state dinner at the White House and an address to Congress.
Starmer seems to endlessly flip-flop around Trump – one minute he is blasting him in a press conference, the next – usually when face-to-face with him – he’s buttering him up and oiling all over him.
Trump, meanwhile, has shown nothing but disdain for Starmer and the UK’s perceived lack of support for his Iranian war. At one stage, he said of our offer to send aircraft carriers: “We don’t need people who join Wars after we’ve already won!”
A bit rich from a man who sought and secured five legal deferments to avoid military service during the Vietnam War.
Trump’s a classic playground bully – maybe King Charles is right to give him an unofficial slap. Starmer, so far, giving Trump an inch has just meant he’s taken a mile.
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