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Trumps Visit with the Queen Is Already Looking Like a Mess
Theres no room at Buckingham Palacebut the Trump baby blimp will be back to greet him!
by Erin Vanderhoof
April 24, 2019 4:56 pm
A mere day after accepting an official invitation from the Queen to make a state visit to the United Kingdom in June, President Donald Trump couldnt help but prove why he has a reputation for being a bad guest. After Larry Johnson, a former C.I.A. analyst, appeared on the conservative One America News Network Wednesday and made claims about the British intelligence service and the 2016 election, Trumps Twitter fingers were burning. He couldnt help but regurgitate the already-litigated and disproven idea that he was wiretapped and spied on by the British government during the 2016 election:
Link to tweet
Maybe he was in a salty mood because he found out there probably wouldnt be an actual palace for him to stay at while in London. After the invitations acceptance was announced, the Daily Mail reported that, despite receiving the Queens invitation, Trump and his wife, Melania, would likely not be staying in Buckingham Palace, as her guests usually do. The part of the palace where the aides of foreign dignitaries usually stay, the East Wing, will be closed as part of the 10-year, £365 million renovation of the palace. Instead, they will likely stay at the U.S. ambassadors residence, Winfield House, where they stayed during Trumps working visit to the country last summer. Its probably a coincidence that the renovation will affect that specific wing on those specific dates, but it will at least allow the Queen to keep the Trumps at arms length if she so chooses.
Trump is no stranger to a chilly reception in the United Kingdom. His first bid for a state visit was delayed last year, due in part to fears about demonstrations; when Trump finally made it to London in July 2018, he was greeted by tens of thousands of protestors. They followed his every move, even showing up to his Scotland golf course, Trump Turnberry.
Now, protesters are already announcing their intentions for the June visit. After the visit was officially announced, CNN contacted organizers of last years London protests and confirmed that the big Trump baby blimp that drew headlines would return for another go-around.
The visit is set to occur in time for ceremonies recognizing the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Trump will attend a ceremony in Portsmouth before heading to Normandy for a larger memorial. During the visit, he is also going to conduct bilateral talks with Theresa May, whose handling of Brexit he criticized a day before a meeting with her last summer. That is, should he make it to the visit this time. Its going to be a long month.
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blogslut
(38,000 posts)That guy turned out to be quite the shithead.
pamdb
(1,332 posts)Tou know damn well that some of the younger members of the Family will conveniently be out of town during the visit.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)And he has a lot of it.
dflprincess
(28,078 posts)Charles or William will just have to stand in for her.
My aunts who are both in their 90s (one 93, the other almost 97) tell me that the advantage of being that old is, if you don't want to do something, all you have to do is say you "don't feel up to it". No one questions that when you're their ages.
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)No class and no self-awareness
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)I hope he does some more stupid shit like last time and makes a fool of himself like he does... idiot.
NJCher
(35,671 posts)clomped around on the lawn in front of the queen. I think he cut her off. He's always trying to get his mug in front of the camera.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)Americas disgrace. Forgive us world.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)The more he looks like the idiot he is...the better for US in 2020... just my 2 cents
Chin music
(23,002 posts)NEVER walk in front of the Queen. ESPECIALLY during a Royal Inspection on the Green. SUCH a patoot.
FirstLight
(13,360 posts)Loge23
(3,922 posts)His presidency is an insult to all Americans, particularly those who fought for our country.
His presence at this occasion is an insult to the fallen and to the survivors of WW2.
We all know that #derangeddonald would have hid somewhere in WW2 had he been alive.
The Queen didn't have much of a choice - she had to invite the sitting president of the US, but I'm sure she doesn't want anything to do with him or his reformed hooker wife.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)She has to be getting paid plenty to even hold his hand.
NJCher
(35,671 posts)Trump's middle name is Donald JOHN Trump.
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)How many minutes will Donnie the Dolt be in UK before he walks right in front of the Queen and then just stands there like a roadblock.
Someone has bet <12 minutes
2naSalit
(86,612 posts)with his track record, he won't make it to the tarmac!
babylonsister
(171,065 posts)Would not surprise me.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)I'll believe a Trump trip to the UK when I see it.
2naSalit
(86,612 posts)his being miserable the whole makes me feel all warm and happy inside.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,177 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)is laughable. His grandfather was a draft-dodger, too. It was one of the reasons he was denied re-entry to Germany.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)That's hallowed ground. HALLOWED GROUND. Men died in the face of withering machine gun fire from those bluffs. Trumps little european trip-tic shouldn't include this.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)Everyone knows which side he wanted to win.
MFM008
(19,808 posts)He is going to see Norman and Dee...
no_hypocrisy
(46,104 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)like he did to her last year.
Response to babylonsister (Original post)
zentrum This message was self-deleted by its author.
there must be something to this visit. What could it be?
p.s. aha. Read farther down the thread: SmirkyMonkey's post.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Will self-delete my comment.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days."
ornotna
(10,801 posts)Wouldn't want diddums to get damp in Normandy.
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)this means Jonathan Pie will come up with more brutally hysterical tRump rants.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Brexit, well him and John Oliver.
BigmanPigman
(51,593 posts)They make learning fun.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,106 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)The Queen wants nothing to do with him and has made that absolutely clear. I admire her for standing her ground against this abomination. She will not allow him to stay at Buckingham Palace and that's that. I love the fact that she is snubbing him.
babylonsister
(171,065 posts)Chin music
(23,002 posts)NO VACANCY.
Maybe trump can get back on the plane and circle Britain for 10 hours and take a nap, drop a duce, tweet, and watch fox and friends.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)(with new baby by then) have already made it quite clear that he will not get anywhere near them. Thank goodness. That poor infant could be traumatized for life.
Plus Harry is no fan of trmp, who has said the most vile and vulgar, outrageous things about his Mum.
I hope the crowd(s) of protesters is so large that he cannot escape seeing/hearing it.
God Save the Queen from this boor cretin.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)You're bloody well right. And you've got the bloody right to say. (Someone once said)
The trumps are a stain on us all. Even the dolts that love him.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)But that he would want her to be tested for STDs first?
Class act, that one.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a pompous, repulsive bag of dicks! Who does he think he is? She was an aristocrat and a princess and he was sleazy, good-for-nothing vulgarian and he had the nerve to even think he could be in her league?
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)This from a guy who not only shuns rubbers, but he also once called battling STDs his "personal Vietnam".
He truly is a shambling pile of shit.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)that she was going to move to Trump Tower.
As if . . . .
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Historic NY
(37,449 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)BFF May.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)a little hot under the collar. Not so sure the Brits are up for insults and lies from the big baboon.
Hold up...the draft dodger in chief has the stugots to go to Normandy on the anniversary of DDay? Can't the French invite a bunch of Dems? Like maybe Carter (submariner) and Gore, and a long list of others who served honorably in the military? Fuck trump. That's hallowed ground. NO PLACE for traitors. NO PLACE.
samplegirl
(11,477 posts)figure out why she wanted him.
delisen
(6,043 posts)Chin music
(23,002 posts)struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)TeamPooka
(24,226 posts)area51
(11,909 posts)only if it doesn't rain.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)Can you blame the royals for not wanting him over?
mchill
(1,018 posts)Chin music
(23,002 posts)Crimes against humanity.
tblue37
(65,357 posts)it doesn't drizzle, and if he doesn't feel like staying in and watching TV.