The privileges Donald Trump is being denied on his UK state visit

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15. As Trump's state visit looms, Britain seems a reluctant host

Britain is gearing up for this week’s state visit by President Trump as only Britain can do. There will be an official greeting ceremony at Buckingham Palace, a lavish banquet with the queen’s best china, a gun salute fired from Green Park and the Tower of London.

It will all be suitably over-the-top.

But there is also a sense that British officials are slightly less than enthusiastic about this particular round of state visit grandeur.

Some of the traditional trappings — such as staying over at Buckingham Palace, a royal welcome at the Horse Guards Parade and a gold carriage procession down the Mall — are notably absent.

The British government, preoccupied with its own domestic turmoil, has long seemed wary about hosting Trump for a state visit.

For one thing, it took a long time to pencil a date in the diary.

Only a year earlier, Parliament had gone so far as to stage a formal debate over whether to ban Trump from setting foot on British soil. For three hours, lawmakers sounded off on a then-candidate they described as a racist, a misogynist and “a dangerous fool.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/as-trumps-state-visit-looms-britain-seems-a-reluctant-host/2019/06/02/c0378178-83b3-11e9-b585-e36b16a531aa_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2QX5i7NmW-8szGPpJq-91YfO1onscodOjY-4GD2QiPeIBpTuePf6S0a7o&utm_term=.c2a6dd51ccae