What a study in contrasts yesterday! There Wednesday night at Windsor Castle, the dubious "guest of honor" sat in the middle of the 50 yard long table, looking happier than the cat that caught the canary. Wearing white tie, and knowing how his 6 Supremes - and 77 m dumb shit voters- helped him escape Rikers Island, Trump gushed at being treated like a king by an actual king.
The state dinner that King Charles III hosted for Trump on Wednesday night at Windsor Castle certainly seemed like a new apex for the twice impeached first felon president. But at the same time this wannabe king was being honored an antipode scene played out in central London with thousands of protesters gathered at Portland Place carrying banners reading “No to racism, no to Trump,” alongside smaller versions of the “Trump baby blimp”.
Recall that orange blimp (see top image) became an icon for mass demonstrations against his first state visit in 2019. It remains an icon given Dotard is an even bigger, angrier toddler now than he was in his first term. Because this time there are no gate keepers to act the part of adults and keep in within the guardrails - or mandate timeouts.
The protesters were also marching towards Whitehall and Parliament Square, but couldn't get near enough to crash the Trump state dinner. But other anti-Trump protests were also reported around Windsor Castle, perhaps within kilometers.
Why roll out a royal red
carpet for the first felon president, in history? Probably to get on his good side, and hope in to avoid even higher tariffs. And yes, holding meetings with U.S. business executives and
staging ceremonies designed to win favor from Trump on trade matters.
Official events were deliberately kept away from central
London demonstrations “to spare Donald Trump the embarrassment of encountering
a protest”. Couldn't have the dyspeptic toddler blowing a gasket in front of the King of England now, could we?
Stop the War, one of the main organizers, said on X: “Genocide
deniers not welcome! All out against Trump’s state visit! Demand US and UK stop
arming the Israeli genocidal state!”
This followed the declaration of a UN Commission that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza- and anyone seeing recent images out that desolate, famine-ridden hellhole would be inclined to agree. The truth hurts, but pictures of kids maimed from bombs and with swollen bellies don't lie. This will dog Israel and Netanyahu for decades.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign also encouraged Brits to
speak up, declaring: “Trump’s deportations confirm he is a racist authoritarian at home
and a warmongerer abroad. These are not things we should be honoring. Join us
to demand our government cancel this visit.”
The protests were described as “the counterpoint to all
that flattery and pomp and grandeur that’s going on in Windsor at the moment”. Which was an apt description. The protesters blared on:
“There are no royal carriages here. There are no military
parades. This is a very different England. This is the England of the left.
It’s the England of Trades Unions. It’s the England of environmental groups and
the Palestine solidarity campaign. And they say that Donald Trump is not
welcome in this country.”
The demonstrators accused the British government of
honoring “a man who they say has basically been destroying human rights in the
United States, destroying human rights around the world, denying climate change
and enabling a genocide in Gaza”.
But that same British government may well know - like the corporations, news media, universities and others in the U.S. - that it is best not to poke the pig in the eye. After all, he's already used extra-judicial strikes in international waters to blow two Venezuelan fishing boats to kingdom come.
"Hey! Trump said those were narco- terrorists, you left wing radical!"
And you believe the guy who's reeled off over 40,000 lies? My bet is this feral orange rat pulled that balderdash right out of his fat ass, no curation or corrections. We will see, if he's ever brought before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
See Also:
A Lesson For All Voters To Master: How Wannabe Kings Grab And Hold Onto Power
And:
Thousands protest Donald Trump's UK state visit in London | BBC News
And:
by John Feffer | September 18, 2025 - 4:47am | permalink
— from Foreign Policy In Focus
Of the many savage ironies of the Trump administration, perhaps the greatest is the ever-diminishing stature of the United States—despite the president’s desire to make the country great again. MAGA was always something of a misnomer. As a modern-day Sun King, Trump has always believed that he is the state. If America somehow manages to shine, it’s really because of the light that reflects off the president’s bronzed brow. MAGA ultimately boils down to MTGA: Make Trump Great Again.
The preening president believes that relevance is measured by how often his image is in the public eye and the frequency with which foreign leaders pay him obeisance. Toward those ends, he has wielded tariffs like a whip to keep other countries in line. He has attacked the relatively weak (Venezuela), piggybacked on the military actions of others (striking Iran after Israel had already initiated the conflict), and threatened to seize largely undefended territory (Greenland). He has grandiosely promised to end wars—quickly by himself rather than patiently with trained negotiators.
And:
Diplomatic Coup or Abject Groveling? U.K. Debates Trump’s Royal Welcome - The New York Times
No comments:
Post a Comment