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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQueen Elizabeth plans to meet with Shitler next month.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/20/politics/trump-queen-england-visit/index.htmlWho do we contact to protest this? I can't possibly see this happening, especially now.
BannonsLiver
(16,548 posts)On edit: For the uninitiated, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is the kind of guy who says whatever is on his mind, and loud boorish, new money braggarts like Trump are exactly the kind of person he likes to take the piss out of.
dflprincess
(28,095 posts)meets Liza Minnelli and says "Usually one must go to a bowling alley to meet a woman of your caliber."
I'd like Phillip to say something like that to Melania. Though replace "bowling alley" with something less respectable.
BannonsLiver
(16,548 posts)And yes I could totally see him saying that, along with at least one joke about Trunps hair. The truth is that the American President is a powerful position in the world and Philip has met probably a dozen of them. And each time, I bet he thought he was the most important person in the room. This one, if it happens, wont be any different. Thats just who he is. Its become kind of endearing in his old age to be honest.
enid602
(8,679 posts)I like the one where Jean Harlow meets Princess Margot. Jean say 'hello, Margottt.' To which the Princess responds 'no, dear the 't' is silent. As in Harlow.'
dflprincess
(28,095 posts)Ohiogal
(32,196 posts)that she's planning on having a headache that day.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)While she rides around the city in her golden carriage.
But he is free to come and watch her.
RockRaven
(15,097 posts)they will protect her from the degradation and taint of meeting with him.
kimbutgar
(21,285 posts)CincyDem
(6,419 posts)Summer time she'll be up at Balmoral in the middle of nowhere Scotland. He'll be out of sight, out of mind and he won't get the "royal treatment" through the streets of london,
Just a guess.
kimbutgar
(21,285 posts)The protests will bring the road to balmoral to a Halt. Based on some of the British Press this child migration separation is angering a lot of Europe.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,603 posts)Maybe he'll tell SHS to go out and get him a model of the Eiffel Tower as a souvenir of his trip to England. (Nobody ever said he knew about geography.)
BigmanPigman
(51,674 posts)The queen will look as thrilled as the Pope did during his visit (he looked like he was witnessing an abortion).
Thekaspervote
(32,823 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,674 posts)They did before May announced his visit and afterwards.
https://www.esquire.com/uk/latest-news/a20069587/trump-protests-london-visit-july/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-26/trump-coming-to-u-k-in-july-but-will-protesters-get-a-look-in
Cha
(298,087 posts)by the way Fraud treated Justin Trudeau and Angela Merkel.
Like all non trumphans were.
BigmanPigman
(51,674 posts)Cha
(298,087 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,514 posts)if she means so much to the people in her country. Why the fuck bend over and kiss up to this grotesque meat goblin?
BannonsLiver
(16,548 posts)If this were a state visit shed be obligated. This isnt a state visit though.
Having read a lot about her and the rest of the family, over the years, and knowing how tedious and monotonous their lives can be, part of me thinks theyre just curious about the freak show. Sort of like the way someone might have paid money to see a bearded lady or goat boy at a county fair back when that was a thing.
They were quite warm with the Obamas, so I dont think its about endorsing his worldview and politics, even if they might agree on some issues.
By the way, the meat goblin thing is brilliant.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,603 posts)Obama had ridden in a non-descript vehicle provided by the U.K. security service.
In the end, the Brits changed the status of IQ45's meeting from a royal visit to a meet-and-greet with Her Highness.
Thank God he won't get the carriage ride. If he did, he'd want one made for himself (only bigger and goldier) to ride in during his bigly ego-feeding military parade this fall.
BTW, if he gets his parade this year he'll want a bigger one next year. Just sayin'.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)If I was U.K. For sec reasons I'd find a cancel
Glorfindel
(9,747 posts)BASHAR AL-ASSAD of Syria
ROBERT MUGABE of Zimbabwe
NICOLAE CEAUCESCU of Romania
VLADIMIR PUTIN of Russia
XI JINPING of China
IDI AMIN of Uganda
As well as several squalid "royals" from the Arab world (the King of Jordan is not squalid; most of the rest are)
She will deal with tRump with her constant dignity and grace. At this stage in her life, nothing or no one can tarnish or diminish her.
dflprincess
(28,095 posts)Supposedly scared him to death.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/23/queen-elizabeth-king-abdullah-driving-story_n_6533236.html
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)And if President Obama did it, he wants it too.
If he manages to get over there, I hope to hear the loud, unrelenting recording of crying children played all the way to the palace gates.
The Royal Family has to detest him on principle - so many reasons.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)area51
(11,944 posts)bdjhawk
(421 posts)And you know the newlyweds Meghan and Harry despise him. He is against everything they stand for.
Princess Turandot
(4,791 posts)...who invited Trump to the UK practically before his small inaugural crowd slithered home. I don't know if there's precedent for the queen refusing such a request by the PM.
dflprincess
(28,095 posts)she sneezes in public then announces she has a cold and stays home. My aunt says being in your 90s is a great excuse to avoid doing something you don't want to do.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Boy, will he be pissed.
Hekate
(91,046 posts)No gold coach for the Mad King.
Freethinker65
(10,116 posts)Hekate
(91,046 posts)...bigly. Hilarity ensues.
I think you've got to hand it to the old girl. The citizenry will be lining the streets to drop trow and show their bums to the bum, and HRH Elizabeth will be laughing like hell on the inside.
dflprincess
(28,095 posts)feigns confusion by saying "You said the President and First Lady were here, these cretins are not the Obamas."
(Seriously, my paternal grandmother told me faking confusion allowed her to get away with all sorts of stuff. She and her friend once crashed a private club they wanted to have lunch at by pretending they'd been there with a son. No one wanted to make a scene and chase the old girls out. But she said you really couldn't get away with it before 80.)