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.

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    11 hours ago

    Charles is the king of Canada… and Trump has been directly dissing his sovereignty of that nation. And he expected a warmer reception than Zelenskyy, who has good relations with all of the nations of which Charles is king?

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    12 hours ago

    Ah… this is such a perfectly Trump story. The Onion couldn’t have done a better job of it.

    The fate of the western world has been placed in the hands of a man who’s the emotional equivalent of a four-year-old competing for daddy’s attention.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 hours ago

      Considering his very real daddy issues and own admission that he is pretty much the same as he was as a child… Yeah, pretty much.

      He really is a giant whiney fucking baby… Yet somehow MAGAs think this chump exudes strength. What a world.

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    11 hours ago

    he’s mainly pissed because zelenskyy has already had tea with the king.

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    12 hours ago

    Hahahaha, “The King makes his own decisions…”

    In their constitutional system, I’m not believing that for a hot second.

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      Sandringham is one of the King’s private residences. So who he chooses to invite there and how they are received is up to him.

      A state visit is commissioned by the government and the King has no choice in who is invited or how they are received.

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        The one thing Trumpism should have taught y’all is that all those “technically, yes, it’s literally your government” royal/executive powers are actual powers when someone has the will to act like they believe it themselves and a certain baseline of support.

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          And the one thing Oliver Cromwell should have taught you all is that when you set clear precedent for what happens when the head of state takes the piss, it doesn’t tend to reoccur.

          American politics is built around worshipping the cult of the presidency, and whipping the office holders into shape has been repeatedly rejected on the basis of “harming the dignity of the office”.

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      12 hours ago

      From the bottom of my heart:

      Trump can eat dirt, the best dirt some may say, 6 feet under ground, for eternity + a day.

      Fuck Trump!!