President Trump Accepts State Dinner Invitation from the Queen
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[quote]After meeting in private at the White House, U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and President Donald Trump addressed the public in a joint press conference on Friday.
“Today the United States renews our deep bond with Britain,” President Trump told reporters. “We pledge our lasting support to the most special relationship.”
He called the United States and the U.K.’s relationship “one of the great forces in history for justice and for peace.”
May opened by congratulating Trump on his “stunning election victory” last November, and said she conveyed to him on Friday an invitation from Queen Elizabeth for Trump and his wife, Melania, to make a state visit to Britain later this year — which he accepted, May said.
In her prepared remarks for the press conference in a jam-packed East Room, May seemed to take care to box Trump in — publicly — on support for NATO, the international military alliance which Trump has repeatedly, controversially criticized as “obsolete.”
From her lectern beside Trump’s, May told reporters that in their private Oval Office talks she and Trump agreed on an “unshakable commitment to this alliance.” And, looking over at Trump, she added that he had told her he was “100 percent behind NATO.” Trump said nothing.
Asked at one point if there were any topics on which May and Trump disagreed, the former responded, “I can confirm that I’ve been listening to the president, and the president has been listening to me.”
“That’s the point of having a conversation and a dialogue… the point of the special relationship is that we’re able to have that open and frank discussion,” May asserted.
Further, when prodded if they’d “found anything in common personally yet,” Trump said only, “I think we’re gonna get along very well. It’s interesting because I am a people person. I can often tell how I’m going to get along with someone very early.”
May seemed in agreement, stating, “I think we have already struck up a good relationship.”[/quote]
[url]http://people.com/politics/british-prime-minister-theresa-may-meets-with-president-trump-at-the-white-house/[/url]
She's gonna get a heart attack
I wonder what music will be played, I'd recommend they play an Orchestral version of [sp]"The Rains of Castamere"[/sp] after exchanging the guest gifts.
[QUOTE=AnnieOakley;51736490]I wonder what music will be played, I'd recommend they play an Orchestral version of [sp]"The Rains of Castamere"[/sp] after exchanging the guest gifts.[/QUOTE]
I think "It's the end of the world" would be a lot more appropriate and funny.
I wish Queen succesful illegally arrest Trump...
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Watch the fuck out Trump.
May is such a slime ball
make america great britain again
Oh maaan there's gonna some protests when he gets here.
[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;51736522]May is such a slime ball[/QUOTE]
Let's be real she's doing what any PM would do and has done when a new POTUS is spawned. We can't expect her to go full Trump and dispense with diplomacy because of how she personally feels about a foreign leader, despite him being a massive twat.
[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;51736557]Oh maaan there's gonna some protests when he gets here.[/QUOTE]
What you think (Sarcastic)
[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;51736557]Oh maaan there's gonna some protests when he gets here.[/QUOTE]
Some?
That reminds me of a [URL="https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/114003"]particular event a good half year ago[/URL]
[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;51736557]Oh maaan there's gonna some protests when he gets here.[/QUOTE]
it's funny, growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland (the place where trump built his extremely controversial golf course) i'm used to trump arriving at our airport and getting met with protests and negative attention in the media.
who would've known that 7 or 8 years later he'd be getting protested globally and also the most powerful person alive.
Do you guys think the Queen has commissioned a special smaller silverware set for Trump's tiny hands?
Speaking of, I sorta always imagined the queen's got a much more firm handshake than Trump. if only because tiny hands probably don't have near as much grip strength.
[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;51736658]Do you guys think the Queen has commissioned a special smaller silverware set for Trump's tiny hands?
Speaking of, I sorta always imagined the queen's got a much more firm handshake than Trump. if only because tiny hands probably don't have near as much grip strength.[/QUOTE]
You're really grasping at straws.
Though, to be fair, you can hold quite a few more than President Trump.
Excellent. Plans are well underway of getting America back under its rightful ruler.
[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;51736658]Do you guys think the Queen has commissioned a special smaller silverware set for Trump's tiny hands?
Speaking of, I sorta always imagined the queen's got a much more firm handshake than Trump. if only because tiny hands probably don't have near as much grip strength.[/QUOTE]
You never know, she's supposed to be quite sharp when it comes down to it.
[media]https://twitter.com/shashj/status/558564766021869569[/media]
I just kinda always figured the queen was softly spoken but completely savage af.
[QUOTE=DatHarry;51736606]it's funny, growing up in Aberdeen, Scotland (the place where trump built his extremely controversial golf course) i'm used to trump arriving at our airport and getting met with protests and negative attention in the media.
who would've known that 7 or 8 years later he'd be getting protested globally and also the most powerful person alive.[/QUOTE]
Eyy, Aberdeen represent. Except I'm technically 'Shire, and a hell of a lot closer to the site of said Golf Course.
Still pissed about the SSSI that got bulldozed for that eyesore.
[editline]27th January 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Bread_Baron;51737133]You never know, she's supposed to be quite sharp when it comes down to it.
[media]https://twitter.com/shashj/status/558564766021869569[/media][/QUOTE]
The offroad driving I've done on Scottish Estates tells me this - the reaction of the Prince is perfectly understandable, but also that you get like the Queen on them, completely blasé about it and capable of holding conversations as you drive along them.
Kinda stoked for this - I live pretty close to the US Ambassadors house (where he's more than likely to stay) and I was out of the country for Obama's last visit. Would be cool to see all the helicopters (marine one and such) and probably the inevitable shitstorm of protestors that go there.
As long as he doesn't give her a Zune with his speeches on it, he should be golden...
Possible bad reading on my part, but it'll be interesting to see where they hold it. My understanding is Trump wants it to be Balmoral, however at least lately that's always been seen as primarily a private retreat for the royal family, so it might be interesting to see if they host him anywhere else. Given Trump's tendencies for temper tantums and his fragile ego he might throw a hissy fit over it.
Wonder if Trump will make any social faux pas whilst meeting our real Queen, not the lizard in a skin suit that we currently have as PM.
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