{"id":2028888,"date":"2025-09-17T13:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2028888"},"modified":"2025-09-17T13:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T13:24:43","slug":"as-trump-enjoys-the-pomp-of-the-royal-family-america-is-in-uproar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/as-trump-enjoys-the-pomp-of-the-royal-family-america-is-in-uproar\/","title":{"rendered":"As Trump enjoys the pomp of the Royal Family, America is in uproar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 As <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"post_in-line_link\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/topic\/donald-trump?ico=in-line_link\">President Donald Trump<\/a> embarked upon his second state visit to Britain, the America he left behind was rapidly becoming a seething cauldron of uproar that could leave <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"post_in-line_link\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/topic\/keir-starmer?ico=in-line_link\">Keir Starmer<\/a> struggling to find common ground with the US leader. <\/p>\n<p>America is frothing, and in the months since <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"post_in-line_link\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/world\/starmer-meloni-putin-who-is-trump-whisperer-3920615?ico=in-line_link\">the Prime Minister first invited Trump to make a second state visit<\/a> to the UK, the philosophical and cultural gulf between the Trump administration and the Prime Minister\u2019s Labour Government has become a widening chasm.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, less than a week after the <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"post_in-line_link\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/world\/charlie-kirk-suspect-tyler-robinson-court-appearance-3922596?ico=in-line_link\">assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk<\/a> in Utah, Trump\u2019s Attorney General Pam Bondi upped the ante in the White House battle against \u201cradical left terrorists\u201d. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"inews__shorts no-adjacent-ads\"><span class=\"inews__post__label inews__post__label-new-feature\">New Feature<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"inews__shorts__title\">In Short<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"inews__shorts__strap\">Quick Stories. Same trusted journalism.<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"post_in-line_link\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/opinion\/trump-arrive-britain-reshaped-americas-image-divided-and-angry-3918927?ico=in-line_link\">free speech<\/a> and there\u2019s hate speech,\u201d she told right-wing podcaster Katie Miller, even though American laws make no distinction between the two. Of the latter, she indicated \u201cthere\u2019s no place, especially now \u2026 in our society. We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech,\u201d she indicated.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk would not have agreed. In May 2024, he observed on social media that \u201chate speech does not exist legally in America. There\u2019s ugly speech. There\u2019s gross speech. There\u2019s evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by America\u2019s First Amendment. Keep America Free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Bondi is now a woman on a presidential mission, ready to root out Democrats \u2013 the Labour Party\u2019s traditional political allies in the United States \u2013 and supporters whom Trump has characterised as \u201cradical-left lunatics\u201d. His deputy White House chief of staff, Stephen Miller, is even threatening to send them \u201cinto exile\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday night, the Attorney General instructed private companies and publicly-funded institutions to fire anyone whose opinions the White House deems beyond the pale. \u201cEmployers, you have an obligation to get rid of people who say horrible things,\u201d she insisted. \u201cThey should not be working with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many employers are bending the knee, despite the likelihood of fired workers launching unfair dismissal lawsuits that cite blanket free speech protections enshrined in the First Amendment to the US Constitution. <\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people have been sacked since the weekend, including journalists, airline pilots, flight attendants, hospital workers, members of the military and university staff, all of whom were accused by a crowd-source online campaign of saying \u201chorrible things\u201d about Kirk and his widow, Erika. Corporate America appears largely to have decided that it\u2019s better to risk lawsuits from fired workers rather than endure possible consumer boycotts endorsed by the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s enemies list is now being populated at the White House where officials are compiling details of foundations and other \u201cleft-wing organisations\u201d that Trump claims are connected to <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"post_in-line_link\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/charlie-kirk-political-violence-3918074?ico=in-line_link\">political violence<\/a>. He indicated that both the Ford Foundation and George Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundation may soon be accused of funding and supporting \u201cterrorism\u201d in America.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats fear that Trump is about to criminalise dissent, even as members of his inner circle continue to chide Starmer over his handling of free speech in the UK. California\u2019s Governor, Gavin Newsom, noted on social media that Stephen Miller has \u201calready publicly labeled the Democratic Party as a terrorist organization\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t about crime and safety,\u201d he argued. \u201cThis is about dismantling our democratic institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, masked agents with Trump\u2019s Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division (ICE) continue hauling people away and threatening them with deportation. As they embarked upon \u201cOperation Midway Blitz\u201d in the Midwest this week, one group of agents was accused of pulling a mother and father out of their vehicle at a busy intersection in Chicago, driving them away at high speed, and leaving their two underage children to fend for themselves in the family\u2019s car. Local community activists are now warning immigrants living in Chicago to have a \u201cfamily preparedness plan\u201d to deal with Trump\u2019s agents.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security says its raids are targeting \u201ccriminal illegal aliens who flocked to Chicago\u201d, and accused Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker, a prominent Democrat, of \u201csanctuary policies [that] would protect them and allow them to roam free on American streets\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Departing the White House on Tuesday, Trump indicated that he still intends to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago, despite Pritzker\u2019s objections. \u201cPritzker\u2019s nothing,\u201d argued Trump, dismissing the elected governor as an irrelevance. \u201cI\u2019m going to go to Chicago,\u201d he added, repeating that only troops can control crime in the Windy City.<\/p>\n<p>Should Starmer be stuck for a conversational gambit, foreign policy also offers few areas of alignment. <\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s continuing failure to punish <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"post_in-line_link\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/world\/drones-missiles-threats-negotiation-putin-style-nato-3919103?ico=in-line_link\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> for refusing to agree to any kind of truce in Ukraine has now been compounded by his insistence that Nato countries (Hungary and Slovakia) must stop purchasing Russian oil before he will take any action. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"post_in-line_link\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/world\/israel-attack-doha-hamas-another-humiliation-trump-3908997?ico=in-line_link\">Israel\u2019s air strike on Hamas officials in Qatar<\/a> last week has been far more vocally condemned in London than Washington, and Trump has dismissed as \u201cirrelevant\u201d <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"post_in-line_link\" href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/world\/un-accused-israel-genocide-gaza-heres-what-need-know-3920315?ico=in-line_link\">Starmer\u2019s decision to recognise Palestinian statehood<\/a> at the United Nations General Assembly next week in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Aboard Air Force One, Trump indicated that the next two days will allow him to kick back and relax. \u201cEnjoy yourselves,\u201d he told reporters travelling with him. \u201cYou\u2019re going to have some great pictures \u2026 have a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many Americans have good reason to wonder whether the next couple of days are simply the calm before yet another storm.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\t\t\/**\n\t\t\t * Injects the Facebook script.\n\t\t\t *\n\t\t\t * @returns {void}\n\t\t\t *\/\n\t\t\tfunction addFacebookScript() {\n\t\t\t\t!function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n\t\t\t\t\tif (f.fbq) return; n = f.fbq = function () {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tn.callMethod ?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tn.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n\t\t\t\t\t};\n\t\t\t\t\tif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n; n.push = n; n.loaded = !0; n.version = '2.0';\n\t\t\t\t\tn.queue = []; t = b.createElement(e); t.async = !0;\n\t\t\t\t\tt.src = v; s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n\t\t\t\t\ts.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n\t\t\t\t}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n\t\t\t\tfbq('init', '144852230851673');\n\t\t\t\tfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/**\n\t\t\t * Checks for user consent via TCF or USP APIs and loads the Facebook script if\n\t\t\t * consent is present.\n\t\t\t *\n\t\t\t * @returns {void}\n\t\t\t *\/\n\t\t\tfunction facebookConsentHandler() {\n\t\t\t\tconst googleVendorId = 89;\n\t\t\t\tlet renderScript = false;\n\t\t\t\tif (window.__tcfapi) {\n\t\t\t\t\twindow.__tcfapi(\"getTCData\", 2, (tcData, success) => {\n\t\t\t\t\t\tvar fbConsent = false;\n\t\t\t\t\t\tif (tcData && tcData.addtlConsent) {\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvar ids = tcData.addtlConsent.substring(2).split('.').map(function(id) { return parseInt(id); });\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfbConsent = ids.includes(googleVendorId);\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\t\t\tif ( success && fbConsent ) addFacebookScript();\n\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t} else if (window.__uspapi) { \/\/ US Yes\/No check.\n\t\t\t\t\twindow.__uspapi(\"getUSPData\", 1, () => {\n\t\t\t\t\t\twindow.__uspapi.a.push([\"hasConsentedToAll\", null, (hasConsent) => {\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (hasConsent) addFacebookScript();\n\t\t\t\t\t\t}]);\n\t\t\t\t\t});\n\t\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/\/ If the adverts queue is available, push the Facebook consent handler to it.\n\t\t\t\/\/ Otherwise, set a timeout to call the handler after a second.\n\t\t\tif (window?.adverts?.queue?.push) {\n\t\t\t\twindow.adverts.queue.push(facebookConsentHandler);\n\t\t\t} else {\n\t\t\t\t\/\/ No ads on page, assume everything will have loaded by now.\n\t\t\t\tsetTimeout(facebookConsentHandler, 1000);\n\t\t\t}\n        <\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source inews.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 As President Donald Trump embarked upon his second state visit to Britain, the America he left behind was rapidly becoming a seething cauldron of uproar that could leave Keir Starmer struggling to find common ground with the US leader. 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