Skip to main contentSkip to navigation Close dialogue1/1 Next image Previous image Toggle captionSkip to navigation Donald Trump greets King Charles at the South Portico of the White House for a state dinner on 28 April in Washington DC. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP View image in fullscreen Donald Trump greets King Charles at the South Portico of the White House for a state dinner on 28 April in Washington DC. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP AnalysisCharles tamed Trump while rebuking Trumpism in ego-flattering masterstrokeDavid Smith in WashingtonKing skillfully appeals to Republicans fond of Britain and Democrats anxious about rules-based order in state visit For his last trick, the king revealed a bell that hung from the conning tower of a Royal Navy submarine launched from a UK shipyard in 1944. Its name was HMS Trump. “And should you ever need to get hold of us,” Charles III said, “well, just give us a ring.”The polished brass bell bearing the name “Trump”, presented at Tuesday’s state dinner at the White House, was an ego-flattering masterstroke that will have prompted groans in foreign capitals from Paris to Canberra to Tokyo. How can they ever hope to match that?But for all the gushing praise on both sides of the Atlantic for Charles’s elegant display of diplomacy on his visit to the US this week, the British…
Published: May 1, 2026 5:31 pm
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