cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26592059
Summary
Donald Trump is upset after King Charles warmly welcomed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Sandringham, making Trump’s own state visit invitation seem “less special.”
Trump’s allies allegedly asked the British government to intervene, but officials stated the king makes his own decisions.
Relations may also be strained by Trump’s criticism of Canada, where Charles remains head of state.
The U.K. government denied tensions, reaffirming strong U.S.-U.K. ties.
Looks as though we’ll have to break out Baby Trump Blimp
Anyone got the article? It’s paywalled for me
Pick a side
Donald Trump‘s relationship with the U.K. has become frosty after King Charles showered Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky with praise at his country home, Sandringham—just days after Trump’s highly public Oval Office clash with the Ukrainian leader.
The photographs of the king standing shoulder to shoulder with the Ukrainian leader have made Trump’s invite for a state visit to Britain—delivered with a flourish by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in front of TV cameras—seem “less special” to the U.S. president, the Daily Mail reported Sunday, citing diplomatic sources in Washington.
Incredibly, the report suggests that Trump’s allies made their position known to the British government and were informed by civil servants that they could not “direct” King Charles to call off the Zelensky meeting.
Trump and Charles’ relationship may also be worsened by a report in the London Sunday Times saying that the king is dismayed by Trump’s attacks on Canada—which still counts the king as its official head of state.
The U.K. government denied to the Daily Mail that Trump was annoyed by the meetings, but an insider described as a “well-placed source” said: “Things definitely went a bit cool in Washington after Sandringham. We told them that the king makes his own decisions about who he meets.”
A U.K. government spokesman told the Daily Mail: “We do not recognize these reports. We have been unequivocal about the importance of the U.S. as an ally of the U.K. No two countries are as closely aligned as ours on economic, defense, security and intelligence interests, and we share deep historic and cultural ties. We will continue to work hand-in-hand and look forward to welcoming President Trump.”
The Sunday Times said Trump’s antagonism of Canada is “particularly on his mind” as the king prepares to make a speech tomorrow in which he will urge nations to “come together in the spirit of support and friendship” rather than focusing on “differences” in “uncertain times.”
A source close to the king told the Sunday Times: “It is business as usual, but with everything on a heightened level of significance. Canada is particularly on his mind. Of course, he knows he has to be mindful of being the U.K. head of state and the head of state in Canada, as well as being the head of the Commonwealth. It does require delicate diplomacy, given that not everyone’s interests are aligned.”
Cheers. What a inpudent child Trump is.
Yeah, I mean what’s this Charles guy’s deal? Is he just like… nice to everyone? What an asshole…
Dudley Dursley is our president.
Reminds me of when Eric Cartman’s Mom has to get him presents on Kyle’s birthday so he doesn’t throw a tantrum.
I am honestly impressed at Trump’s unending ability to find new and impressive ways to inform the entire world of just how much of a tiny little bitch he is, day after day.
Trumple Thinskin is the leader of the snowflake movement. It hasn’t been a surprise to anyone that’s actually heard him over the last couple decades.
And yet, half the people perceive this as strength.
I was so happy to not be pissed constantly for four years. I had so much hope for my species. I understood it accidentally happening the first time because so many people didn’t think it could.
Oh well.
It blows my mind that so many Americans saw this petulant, orange manchild and thought yes, this man should lead us.
Easy:
They saw themselfs in him: a grown up child
Exactly.
Trump is what everyone who voted for him aspires to be.
A giant, petulant manbaby that’s ‘allowed’ to bully people.
I am honestly surprised so many other Americans did not realize that so many of their fellow countrymen are vindictive, incompetent little shitheels who get off on bullying people.
Even after knowing he bankrupted his casinos and knowing he is a TV show host/actor. He bankrupted his casino, was he voted to bankrupt USA?
They relate to him. They feel put upon by the burdens of a world that left them behind. They’re struggling financially while those “liberal elites” laugh at their misfortune. They grind 40 or 60 hours for a pittance that barely keeps food on the table these days. They watch TV and are bombarded by a culture that embraces sexual deviancy and vices that demonstrate the rot at the heart of their once fine upstanding country.
From their perspective, of course. Forged by propaganda and misinformation that they are too furious to examine. This idiot man-baby we see? They see a fucking savior. A man who like them knows how things ought to be. A man with the willpower and knowhow to “save America.”
Where we see petulance, they see righteousness, and they sympathize. These people are furious. He’s got them completely weaponized.
Finally, someone gets it.
I’m at the point where I don’t want to be cynical, and I don’t have any proof, but…would anyone put him past rigging the election? That’s where my head is at right now. It makes sense. I don’t know how he rigged the election. I don’t know how TO rig an election.
But seeing him, and being told he won the popular vote…my brain can’t process the core concept of trump being popular. But if you say he rigged it, my brain can follow that concept without having smoke come out my ears.
Popular by total votes tallied, not popular by total eligible voters. Only about 50-70% of all eligible voters vote - call it 2/3. Campaigning is less about swinging voters between parties and more about convincing them to show up for the ballot. This is Trump’s specialty. He is so inflammatory that he has driven more people to the polls, both for and against him. But if you look at the actual stats, 2016 was won with just 27% of the eligible voter population’s vote and 2024 with 32%. The runner up tallied 29% and 31%, respectively. 3rd party votes don’t exceed 2% which means both the winner and the 2nd place candidates collected a total vote count about equal to the number of people who didn’t show up at all.
More towards what people actually see in him, they think he’s their friend. His vitriol makes them beleive he’s really just in this for an altruistic motive about returning the USA to a place of freedom (for the white Christian patriarchal population). They don’t think he is in it for financial gain. They think they’re poor because democrats gave money to brown people. They think being a dick to other countries will bring the USA back to a self-sustaining country. They beleive corporations will do the right thing in response and choose to no longer exploit poor countries. They think the decline of US citizens’ private wealth is from welfare policies, not from corporate greed. They don’t recognize that the USA’s 1950s-60s economic boom was rooted in being the only major industrial nation that was NOT bombed to kingdom come in the 40s.
And above all, I beleive conservatives generally lack empathy. They beleive this dichotomy that everyone has equal opportunity but also that behavior is racial. They can’t bring themselves to beleive minorities have it rougher due to systemic issues. They can’t understand how poverty, teen pregnancy, drug abuse, lacking Healthcare, inability to afford higher education, or predisposition to violence is more easily predicted by birth location than anything else. Until it happens to one of their own, one who looks like them, looks like a daughter, looks like a brother. This frees them to vote for Trump and beleive in a year, they’ll be wealthy, screaming “fuck you, got mine” to the lesser demographics that just won’t play nice. That gives way to the most upsetting irony. They’re voting for a “businessman” who will “run the country like a business” yet somehow cannot understand, at all, Trump is a grifter that is excellent at branding himself as successful on the backs of bankrupted companies that gave him golden parachutes. Why would anyone want trump to run the country like a Trump business? Bankruptcies, layoffs, shutdowns, downsizes, and a fat check for Trump? Because it’s about race, religion, and societal norms. It’s believing that being white, Christian, and patriarchal should automatically come with success in America. All of the hypocrisy and side effects is just the cost of gaining personal wealth.
I agree with all of your points.
You also seem to write grammatically correct sentences bereft of the typical misspellings that confound ESL writers… which makes me wonder: how did you manage to get “believe” wrong FIVE times, and then nail it when it became “believing” at the end?
Remember when the traitors illegally seized all the voting machines for their bullshit audits in 2020?
The voting machines that are known to have first hand attack vulnerabilities were in the hands of America’s enemies.
What vulnerabilities are you referencing?
“One of the most serious vulnerabilities could allow malicious code to be spread from the election management system to machines throughout a jurisdiction, Halderman said. The vulnerability could be exploited by someone with physical access or by someone who is able to remotely infect other systems that are connected to the internet if election workers then use USB sticks to bring data from an infected system into the election management system.”
Get out and talk to people. It’s 100% believable he won the popular vote, let alone the election.
The election apparatus in the US is extremely hard to rig. It’s run by local officials, so in order to fix the counting of voters you need to get to thousands of individual county/city/town election boards, all at once. Those boards have members of all parties generally present on them so there is a fair amount of local oversight to overcome, too.
There was a bit of time in the early 2000’s where the voting machines themselves were suspect but some good work by independant researchers shined some daylight on that. Now most votes in the US are either done purely by paper ballots (counted by machines) or on machines that generate verifiable paper trails, and are very hard to just casually alter the count without being found out.
Republicans rig the vote by manipulating their media. Roger Ailes was one of Nixon’s media advisors during Watergate. The lesson he took away was that if the media didn’t hold Nixon to account, he would have never had to resign. Ailes went on to run Fox News in the mid-90s, and the rest is history.
It’s like that child who pouts because he doesn’t get presents on his brother’s birthday.
The Venn diagram of c/theonion and c/not the onion is just a blurry circle now.
I much prefer him privately fuming rather than publicly fuming.
I’d much prefer him dead.
alas, I’m a coward.
They can have a place reserved for tiny hands Donnie in a special needs class. That should do the trick.
Oh no, poor Donnie! You want Elon to come and suck your toes? (I heard it’s something the cishets do, they’re weird like that)
