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According to the Sunday Times, members of the royal family, including Prince Charles and Prince William, refused to meet with President Donald Trump and his wife Melania during their stop-over in London.
The report states that the family left it to Queen Elizabeth II to meet and greet the American president while everyone else avoided Trump who is highly unpopular in the United Kingdom.
According to a well-placed sources at Buckingham Palace, the two princes avoidance of Trump was a snub, with a source saying they simply refused to attend.
The Times went on to quote a Whitehall official who explained that Trumps visit with the Queen was kept to a bare minimum, and that other members of the royal family were not as enthusiastic as they were when Obama came over.
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)hatrack
(59,584 posts)Good for them, giving this grotty fat fuck just the respect he earned - i.e. zero.
gordianot
(15,237 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,733 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They are doing what everyone should be doing to this cretin. Ignoring, snubbing, shaming the fat POS.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)MrModerate
(9,753 posts)Both immortal and invulnerable. To her, Trump is just a brief squeak. She's dealt with hundreds of these self-important ninnies in her time.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)Roy Rolling
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)syringis
(5,101 posts)I love her !
pazzyanne
(6,552 posts)Now that is what you call dedication to your position/job.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Visiting with these two racists for an hour. It couldn't have been fun dealing with his disrespect, stupidity, and lack of manners, among other things.
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)I don't think Cheeto was racist or rude, other than showing up late. He just talked about himself the entire time. I'm sure he made it all about him, and she would have been bored to tears.
Queen Elizabeth is the richest woman in the world, or at least she's in the top 5. She owns more castles and mansions than Cheeto could ever dream of, and it puts him at a disadvantage. He had to talk himself up incessantly just to convince the Queen that he belongs in her category. (He doesn't, and he never will.)
The Queen loves talking about horses and dogs, and Cheeto doesn't know the first effing thing about them. She just gave them tea, a few cookies, polite chit-chat and kicked them out of the house as fast as she could.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)very uncool.
The handshake business was fine. She offered her hand very quickly so there would be no confusion about it.
I bet the rest of it was exactly as you described. She probably was fairly quiet so they would get bored and leave faster.
NickB79
(19,236 posts)hatrack
(59,584 posts).
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)tanyev
(42,553 posts)Somebody had to do it. And you don't dare pawn it off on Princess Michael because she probably adores Trump.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)on the Howard Stern Show, I'm not surprised:
Stern then followed up on a line of questioning he had started in an earlier interview (which has been available previously, and widely discussed) in which Trump agreed with Sterns suggestion that Trump could have nailed the recently deceased Princess Diana. Stern again posits that Trump could have nailed her.
Referring back to their discussion of HIV testing, the radio host then acted out a scene where Trump tells her to get tested first. Hey Lady Di, would you go to the doctor? Stern mockingly asks. Trump then gets in on the joke, imagining the conversation with the British royal. Go back over to my Lexus, because I have a new doctor, he says, as if addressing her. We wanna give you a little checkup.
As he did with many famous women, Trump proceeded to evaluate Dianas appearance in oddly specific ways. Although he allowed that she had times when she didnt look great he deemed her supermodel beautiful.
And the PIG expects the Royal Family to welcome him?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2017/09/25/in-newly-surfaced-howard-stern-interview-trump-joked-about-giving-princess-di-an-hiv-test/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.0be970c3af36
FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)It's not that they are stupid, they aren't. But they do live in sort of a bubble and for many years they have had to tune out all the chatter about their mother. I'm sure that Wills and Harry both find him detestable, even without knowing the worst about him.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Sure, no one who cared about them would have told them about this when they were young, but as adults, over the last three years, I bet they heard something and got the scoop on how trump would have required their mother to take a health-purity STD test before he fucked her.
I suspect that given the opportunity, I would have accepted the offer to have tea with him, then spilled a hot pot in his lap.
pazzyanne
(6,552 posts)NONE OF US DO, DONNY DINGLEBALLS!
underpants
(182,791 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,375 posts)syringis
(5,101 posts)Even the Queen wouldn't have met him if she hadn't been trapped by May who invited Trump in the early days of his presidency.
I remember the Queen was upset because May should have asked her before. So to limit the damages, the visit was downgraded from State visit to Working visit
She could avoid meeting him, but she's very subtle.
He was treated with the slightest consideration possible. Hardly enough to pretend not to be insulting. Being welcomed as he was and considering the colors the Queen wore which are nothing innocent, is certainly more contemptuous than not being received.
tblue37
(65,340 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Don't know but I thought she looked great. Much better than the rude, rumpled fatso.
syringis
(5,101 posts)Yes, she looked great.
Blue and yellow are the EU flag colors. She's pro Europe. She can't express her political opinions, but she masters to the perfection the art of showing them without breaking any protocol !
She clearly didn't like what Trump said on Brexit.
syringis
(5,101 posts)Blue and yellow are the EU flag colors. The Queen knows how to deliver a message without saying a single word !
tblue37
(65,340 posts)MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)fascinating! I had no idea. He was treated with the slightest consideration. This makes me love QE2. I can just imagine the planning that went into this working visit...details right down to the colors she wore? How interesting! Thank you for sharing this info.
syringis
(5,101 posts)Foreign leaders visits are very codified and have specific protocols depending on what type of visit is.
Generally working visits involve less decorum and honors.
In UK, it's up to the Queen to agree or not a state visit as it implies great decorum and honors.
Blue and yellow are the EU flag colors. Notice how her outfit is all most all blue with very few yellows. Exactly like the flag : blue with 12 yellow stars.
She has a duty of reserve, but she knows how to show what she thinks !
In her position, she couldn't tell better how much she despise the pig !
MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)chooses to wear could be a hidden message? How dignified AND mysterious. He and his handlers are to ignorant to pick up on that. Again, Im fascinated!
All is good here in Montana, dear syringis! Were in the middle of our sweet, short summer and happy to not have wildfires...yet.
Your updates and news about the Orange Ignoramus European visit and related protests have been so entertaining. Europe has done a fantastic job sticking it right to him. Thank you!
Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)much like the Japanese, the brits can really drag that one out. It can be quite the social event.
Trump was in there for what? 20 minutes?
Yeah, I'd say the Queen did the absolute minimum based on her protocols, not Trump's.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)The Dotard was probably too busy sucking up to Tories like Boris to meet the princes. Besides, he probably feared that Harry would punch him out and stomp his fat ass.
Just like Melanoma's jacket, Drumpy only goes for that which scores "win" points with his base......
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)eShirl
(18,490 posts)narnian60
(3,510 posts)marble falls
(57,081 posts)appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)Raster
(20,998 posts)...and take Slovenian Barbie with you.
Thank you, Great Britain!
NCjack
(10,279 posts)my neighbors or me.
calimary
(81,238 posts)The British people were wonderful! They get him, just like Charles and William do.
I have a friend who voted for trump and makes all kinds of excuses for him - AND the republi-CONS, and their HORRID policy ideas. But let trump turn his back on the Queen and disrespect Her Majesty, and MAN-OH-MAN is my friend pissed! I'm not in the mood to start fight with her at the moment, but all of me is smirking - "well, girlfriend, YOU VOTED FOR HIM."
Raster
(20,998 posts)... and don't anyone try and say he didn't know better. He did. His disrespecting the Queen WAS INTENTIONAL. This was tRump* deliberately making an international ass out of himself because he thought it would play well to toxic "base."
calimary
(81,238 posts)I'm sure he was carefully advised about the protocols for greeting royalty, especially Queen Elizabeth - the ultimate royal of record. And as usual with whatever advice he gets about how to behave, he ignored it. Because nobody tells him what to do. That's his main problem, having been brought up that way. He was taught that he was a king (according to what I've read about his dad) and nobody tells a king what to do.
We might all have been better off if somebody HAD told him what to do, when he was growing up.
DAMN JERK.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...EVERYONE, leaders of state, included.
Donald tRump* is a good argument for the theory that some elements of sociopathic and psychopathic behavior can be genetic and run in families.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)Gothmog
(145,176 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)Therefore, he wants nowhere near the orange mutant.
The Queen did her official duty and nothing more. Smart play.
calimary
(81,238 posts)Gratifying to see they've already got donald's number. Especially William.
Denzil_DC
(7,233 posts)untoward if they ever met, it's not really a surprise.
It's a shame Philip is so old and unwell. He'd have known how to handle Trump.
QuantaviousJackson
(11 posts)Good for the Queen and all. Donnie is not worthy.
My only issue with the royals is that the monarchy is effectively an acting troup primarily employed to bring tourism dollars to the isle. There is no real standing and thus their rebuke of Trump is limited in its impact.
cilla4progress
(24,728 posts)see history in the long view.
PS There is no question the intended message of Melainia's jacket on such a day. The only question is whether she chose to wear it, or they made her...
Vinca
(50,269 posts)Gothmog
(145,176 posts)MontanaMama
(23,313 posts)it makes me happy he was snubbed!!!
avebury
(10,952 posts)after the divorce (he lusted to boink her and she thought he as creepy), Trump also make some inappropriate comments about Prince William's wife after the paparazzi picture of his wife was published. Prince Harry's wife has also had past history of making negative comments about Trump. No way would William or Harry would ever agree to meet with Trump.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Who didn't want to meet cadet bone spurs
heaven05
(18,124 posts)Cha
(297,196 posts)and Michelle went to London.
Mister Ed
(5,930 posts)...but only because I thought that by "Don and Melanie", you meant Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. But Donald and Melania Trump? Nah. The hell with them.