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President Donald Trump hopped across the pond on Tuesday to rub elbows with Englands royal family, but his welcome was less than warm.
Before Trump even landed in the United Kingdom, protesters were already making their feelings known outside of Windsor Castle where King Charles III, Queen Camilla, Prince Charles, and Catherine, Princess of Wales, are expected to roll out the red carpet Wednesday.
One of the first clear signs that the president might be heading into hostile territory was a 4,300-square-foot copy of the infamous snapshot of Trump with notorious accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. An activist group known as Everyone Hates Elon crowdfunded approximately $40,000 to splay the 1997 photo across the grounds outside Windsor Castle, according to the Daily Beast.
The group said American comedian Rosie ODonnell, who has a contentious history with Trump, helped craft and spread the message.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/16/2343884/-Brits-say-this-wanker-s-visit-is-a-load-of-bollocks
poli-junkie
(1,596 posts)Irish_Dem
(82,356 posts)His eldest son is Prince of Wales now, and is called Prince William.
His wife is Princess Catherine, Princess of Wales.
poli-junkie
(1,596 posts)when it should have read Prince William.
Irish_Dem
(82,356 posts)Most Americans are not familiar with most of what you and I are saying.
Irish_Dem
(82,356 posts)Prince Andrew's sex with minor girls has been a disgraceful part of the royal family.
He was pulled from official duties and King Charles tried to move him off the royal dole and
out of expensive royal housing.
But Andrew mysteriously got some funds from somewhere to cover his own bills.
Emrys
(9,205 posts)when revelations about his long and cosy (not to mention sleazy, but it's Mandelson, so that goes without saying) friendship with Epstein dominated the news cycles for a number of days (Mandelson's close relationship with Epstein has never been a secret, but for some reason Starmer failed to take it into account seriously when appointing him).
So if Trump was hoping heading off for a jolly in the UK would get him away from the Epstein pressure, he couldn't have come at a much worse time.
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