It won’t make a bit of difference
He just wants the photo-op:
No, actually he’s a total embarrassment. It’s very rude to walk in front of the King of England on his own turf.
He believes he’s king of world and being a cretinous moron is his prerogative. So do his followers:
Yeah, not so much:
An Epstein documentary was projected on Windsor Castle last night:
While Trump is visiting the United Kingdom,there was this projection on Windsor Castle. pic.twitter.com/Moj7UdVvpr
— Richard (@ricwe123) September 17, 2025
For Donald Trump, the priority was to avoid any distractions. But as he arrives for his second state visit to the UK – an unprecedented honour for a US president – the crisis engulfing Keir Starmer’s government threatens to overshadow the proceedings.
The circumstances of that crisis are especially awkward. Peter Mandelson was unceremoniously sacked as the UK’s ambassador to Washington on Thursday after emails were published in which he had urged his friend Jeffrey Epstein to fight for early release from prison in 2008.
For Trump, whose own friendship with Epstein has exposed him to damaging scrutiny, including from his own support base, there is no subject he wants to revisit less.
The display left those who see Trump as a hostile force intent on dismantling the post-war settlement feeling distinctly queasy, but there was at least something honest in the absurdity.
Trump demands spectacle, and Britain provides it. He wants to be king, and, for a day, Britain is letting him.
It made up the entire ceremony from scratch from the elements of other royal spectacles.
It is, of course, traditional to have a ceremonial welcome. But this time a carriage ride around an empty Windsor Great Park was added and so was a mounted escort by the Household Cavalry. A massive gun salute was added, bigger than any before. Then another traditional element, the inspection of the guard, was tweaked to let Trump go first, as if they were his troops. This was designed to be Hail to the Chief, not a conventional royal welcome.
And in doing this flagrant fakery, the U.K. has revealed something deeply unflattering about itself—in the scramble to keep America close, it will debase itself and its values completely.
His childlike need for public bootlicking is an easy way to appease him. But it means nothing. He loves the treatment but this is a man who will break any agreement and go back on his word in a moment of pique. This will buy them nothing except embarrassment for the Royal family who are being used a puppets in a sick little pageant that denigrates everyone involved.
Pathetic.