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Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA The Sunbed King stifles a yawn at Chequers while Keir twitches at the pressJohn Crace Trump was in his own Truman show, everyone else satellites to his ego – even the PM, who was just another beta male It takes all sorts.
Standing around under gun-metal skies watching soldiers isn’t many people’s idea of fun but world leaders are a different breed. No bit of pageantry and flattery goes unnoticed. So why not give Donald Trump the full Disney treatment he craves?
After all, it wasn’t as if he was going to be allowed to stray outside the Windsor Castle compound and it was better than making the king sit indoors and watch Fox News.But if Wednesday was the softening up – “You’re great, you’re the best, the world would stop without you.
We’ve never done anything like this for anyone else” Thursday was very much the business end of the state visit. And the one moment of real danger for the US president and Keir Starmer. The Chequers press conference at which everything could go tits up. The one…
Published: September 18, 2025 5:52 pm
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