Oops! Buckingham Palace Issues Rare Statement After Donald Trump Makes 'Jaw-Dropping' King Charles Claim

[malaise]

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/buckingham-palace-issues-rare-statement-after-donald-trump-makes-jaw-dropping-king-charles-claim-1790117


Buckingham Palace has issued a rare public response after Donald Trump claimed in a new interview that King Charles III would have backed him on the Iran war, insisting the monarch is 'above politics' ahead of a high‑stakes US state visit later this month.

Trump, 79, used a lengthy interview with The Telegraph to suggest that the King would have 'taken a very different stand' from the UK Government on the current conflict with Iran, while also describing King Charles as 'a friend of mine' and praising him as 'a great representative for your country.' The remarks dropped just weeks before King Charles is due in Washington for his first state visit to the United States as King, a trip already freighted with diplomatic symbolism.

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The effin Royals are figureheads. Donvict is stark raving mad.

[questionseverything]

1. Charles is a conservationist, deep into flora and fauna ,

He wouldn’t want the climate disaster that war brings never mind the destruction of actual property

[The Blue Flower]

2. It would be so tone-deaf of the King to make the trip

I hope he's smarter than that. The prez will use it to tell the world the UK is with him.

[malaise]

3. Agree

Another link
https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/2189481/royal-family-live-king-charles-donald-trump

The US leader described the King as a "wonderful and brave man" who has "been through a lot" ahead of the monarch's state visit to the USA later this month. In response to Mr Trump's suggestion, Charles's stance would differ from that of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. A Buckingham Palace source told the Daily Beast, "The King is above politics."

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For the record I hate all royals

[Bluetus]

10. It is hardly "above politics" for the kind to go kiss Trump's ass during this war.

Royalty, schmoyalty. Should have ended centuries ago.

And just for the record, there has not been a continuous bloodline, contrary to the fiction.

1066: The Anglo-Saxon line was broken by William the Conqueror, establishing the Normans.
1485: Richard III (House of York) died, and Henry VII (Tudor) took the throne, ending the Plantagenets.
1603: Elizabeth I died without an heir, passing the throne to James VI of Scotland (House of Stuart), replacing the Tudor line.
1649–1660: A total systemic break occurred with the English Civil War, where the monarchy was abolished and replaced by a Commonwealth.
1714: The Protestant succession brought in the House of Hanover (George I) after Queen Anne.
1837: The direct male line from George III ended with William IV, passing the throne to Queen Victoria.

But at least the British had the good sense to reduce the royalty and the House of Lords to entertainment / performance art long ago.

[jls4561]

4. Larry the cat is currently preparing a present for Charles to present to Fat Donnie on behalf of the UK.

It won’t be gold.

[Permanut]

7. My dog thinks those are Almond Rocas.

[jls4561]

8. That has happened at my house too.

Maybe Keir Starmer could wrap them in gold foil to entice Donnie.

[bucolic_frolic]

5. When is representative Charles' speech? /nt

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Such a statesman ! Putting self-praisingwords in an ally's mouth, when he has no understanding of their actual views. nt

[Irish_Dem]

9. Charles is a fool to visit Trump.

Trump will damage the royal brand.

[eggplant]

11. And that's saying something.

[Irish_Dem]

12. Trump ruins everything he touches.

The Brits think they are so smart to send Charles to sweet talk and impress Trump.
Instead Trump will damage the Royal Family image.

[Justice matters.]

13. Raping Andrew already did that with the raping felon's best buddy...

The Epstein class is still doing well.

[Irish_Dem]

19. Exactly. Now visiting another Epstein pedophile.

Disgusting.

[eggplant]

25. Trump will be like a brother to him.

[Luz]

17. Yeah, banish his own brother, but will come here

and kiss the orange ass? This won't end well for Charlie boy.

[obamanut2012]

26. The government is sending him

He technically can't refuse.

[Irish_Dem]

27. He and his palace team could make a good case for skipping the visit.

He is not without power, friends, and influence.

[Wiz Imp]

14. Interesting that in the linked article, they repeatedly refer to Trump as "former President"

Do they know something?

A former president's hunger for royal validation has collided head‑on with a monarch's duty to stay silent on war.

It gently contradicted Trump without turning the episode into an open row and, just as importantly, it reasserted the constitutional distance between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street at a time when Britain's relationship with the former US president is already strained.

Trump's comments did more than flatter the King; they also jabbed at Britain's current leadership. The former president contrasted his claimed rapport with Charles with what he sees as faltering support from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's government over the Iran conflict. At one point, he disparaged the UK's offer to send aircraft carriers, reportedly saying: 'We don't need people who join Wars after we've already won!'

The former president's own record on military service is well known and heavily documented, including five legal deferments during the Vietnam War. That history has long coloured perceptions of his more martial rhetoric, not least in Britain, where the language of 'already won' wars can grate against the reality of protracted conflict.

[malaise]

16. Very interesting given the rumors today

Rec

[BurnDoubt]

15. NOBODY should meet with Kraznov.

Shun Him.
And then Shun Him again.

[LiberalLovinLug]

18. All will be forgiven is this is a set up to give a firey anti war and anti MAGA speach in the House

[spanone]

20. K&R

[bmichaelh]

21. Enablers are not necessarily friends

Trump has a pattern of describing people as friends that are surprised when he made that statement.

Trump does not realize that an enabler is not the same thing as a friend.

Enabler is someone that will support Trump because they want something from him.

Just because they are an enabler does not mean they like you.

OT: I was disappointed in the royals for not criticizing Trump for cancelling cancer research when a few members of their family have been impacted by cancer.

From Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov:

"A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him,"

[malaise]

22. Excellent quote

Rec

[Maru Kitteh]

23. An "icy response?" Even less effect than a "strongly worded letter"

Trump has no use for the IRL world. Next thing we know he’ll be bragging about how King Chuck is “kissing his ass", like MBS.

[malaise]

24. No - next he will demand that Charlie hands over the crowns for

his coronation - or better yet performs the ceremony. The 😀