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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsState visit to Great Britian. From Buzzfeed.com today
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Donald Trump will finally visit the UK "later this year", Downing Street confirmed on Thursday afternoon.
Officials are currently "finalizing the details" of a visit, with no confirmation on where the US president will visit, or whether it will be a full state visit where he is hosted by Queen Elizabeth.
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Trump made a stagey entrance to Davos, entering at the lower level of the Congress Centre and proceeding slowly through a silent crowd and up a grand set of stairs.
A desperate need for attention in his make up.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,113 posts)over there hear about this and the closer it gets to happening the outpouring of the appropriate hate will make him change his mind.
He is a weak crybaby who doesnt ever go where he is not adored. So he travels as little as possible.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,349 posts)A Downing Street source said both the UK and US were planning for a working visit. This pushes the prospect of Trumps state visit ever further into the future, and raises the possibility that it might never happen.
Either way, the detailed planning that must now get under way will include calculating the scale of the security operation that will be needed. There has been speculation that Trumps visit will lead to the biggest protests since the anti-war demonstration against the Iraq war in 2003.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/25/trump-and-may-discuss-uk-visit-later-this-year-davos
Which means we can moon him without mooning the Queen too ...
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Quite a few of us Brits will be showing up to let him know he's not welcome
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)"Sorry, can't host it. Doing my hair that night."