Visit of the British State of Donald Trump: what to monitor
American president Donald Trump obtains the honor of a state visit to the United Kingdom, a gesture of the ceremonial and flattery considered by many observers as an effort to maintain the relations of Great Britain as possible with a combative white house.
The highlight of the two -day Trump visit will be the state banquet organized Wednesday by King Charles at the castle of Windsor. Trump is expected to meet in head with Keir Starmer at the Prime Minister Country Estate Drivers Drivers.
The details of the visit suggest close coordination of Buckingham Palace and Downing Street, an indication that the royal family and the Starmer government see the potential to use the royal charm on Trump in a way that advances British interests. Here is what to look for during Trump’s visit:
What the king and the president say in public
A large part of the state visit will be televised. The route shows a lot of pumps and ceremonies, including the dismissal of a royal salute while Charles and Queen Camilla greet Trump and his wife at the castle of Windsor, followed by a transport procession through the field escorted by a mounted cavalry, a retirement ceremony and a state of the state of the state in the United States.
These are the parts of style of the state visit. His greatest moments of substance will come during the banquet, in Trump and Charles speeches. The king’s speech will come first, with a toast to the guest, then Trump’s speech.
David Dunn, professor of international politics at the University of Birmingham, says that he will closely watch the content of the speeches.
The king’s speech will be written by the UK Foreign Office and will probably emphasize “a shared constitutional approach to the government of democracy and the rule of law, a shared position on the world scene and abroad in NATO and as supporters of the Liberal International Order”, told CBC News.
Watch how Trump’s banquet speech compares and contrasts with the king.
How Trump reacts to royal treatment
Trump’s personal affection for royalty and his external signs is well documented. In his book The art of agreement He recalled that his mother of Scottish origin spending the day of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth stuck on television. “She was just captivated by the pump and the circumstances, the idea of royalty and glamor,” said Trump.
For this visit, “the royal family is deployed in the most strategic way to serve national interest,” said Dunn.
“Trump is someone we know has a personal taste for opulence,” he said. “Being welcomed in the oldest and most ostentatious palace in the world, Windsor’s castle, is something that you can imagine particularly attracted.”
The theory is that a royal reception developed will be up to the aim of making it more likely to the British view of things come on the last day of the trip when he meets Starmer.
During a meeting at the White House, US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer discussed the end of the war in Ukraine, but while Trump suggested that a cease-fire could be imminent and that Russia could trust to honor an agreement, Starmer was more prudent.
How does the “darkest” strategy work
There is a lot of ground for disagreements between Starmer and Trump, whether it is the United Kingdom plan to recognize the Palestinian state, its firm opposition to the invasion of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin, or the impact of American prices on British exports.
These problems have the potential to make the pair joint press conference, scheduled for Thursday.
However, through several meetings since the inauguration of Trump – including at the top of the G7 in Alberta in June, in a Trump golf course in Scotland in July and again at the White House in August – Relations between Starmer and the President generally appeared cordial.
Starmer has used what John Bourse, chief political commentator of the British newspaper The Independent, calls a “righteous Trump” strategy, but says that it remains to be seen if it will win Trump concerning Ukraine.
“Trump is Mercurial,” said Rentoul The World Teday, a publication by Chatham House, the thinking group on foreign policy based in London. “Starmer must maintain the pressure and exploit Trump’s love for the British apparatus.”
During the first official Starmer meeting with Trump – at the White House in February – the British Prime Minister chose a moment in front of the cameras in the oval office to put the president with the king’s invitation for the state visit.
How anti-Trump feeling appears
The decision to welcome Trump to Windsor Château rather than in the Buckingham Palace, and the time of visit with the British Parliament with the American president of the center of London and the type of mass demonstration that discouraged his 2019 state visit.
Although the demonstrators are always supposed to make an appearance in Windsor, they will see almost nothing of Trump, the president traveling towards and from the castle by helicopter and the processions which take place in the field of the castle.
Security – always tight for any visit by an American president – would have been still tightened in the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk, the American conservative commentator and Trump.
On state visits to the United Kingdom
Since his accession to the throne in 2022, Charles welcomed five state visits: the emperor of Japan, the emir of Qatar and the presidents of South Africa, South Korea and France.
During her 70th anniversary as a monarch, Queen Elizabeth welcomed 113 state visits. His last one, in 2019, was for Trump.
This visit made to Trump the first president of any country to be granted a second state visit to the British monarchs. The only person granted to two state visits to Queen Elizabeth was the Danish Queen Margrethe II, in 1974 and 2001.
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