Daniela Relph

And, you know, he really sort of delved into the politics in a way that we don't normally see.

And then when you got to the evening, that was the bit to make everyone feel better and not to worry too much.

There was a lot of stroking of the president, how proud his parents would have been of him.

We know how great America is, how important it is.

So they really did sort of complement each other and were very much seen as two separate speeches that were very much part of the same project.

Yes.

The other thing that actually struck me on a more personal note in the King, in terms of when we're looking at the things that perhaps have upset him, his talk of his personal faith during the speech, I think was really important because we know from those working around him that there is a degree of discomfort from the King in the way the conversation around religion at the White House has played out, particularly religiously.

with the Pope and the relationship between President Trump and what he has said about the Pope.

And I think there is definite upset on the King side about that.

And it was interesting to me that he chose to give a pretty chunky amount of time to talking about the importance of his own faith, of diversity in faith, of understanding how other people think about kindness, I suppose.

And that was very personal, but it was

also in a slightly different way to some of the harder politics, quite pointed.

No, I mean, it was quite silent generally at that point compared to other moments during the speech.

But yeah, J.D.

Vance in particular did not look at all pleased with that element of the speech and was very, you know, was just sort of, I mean, you just couldn't really read it.

And there was nothing to see here.

But yeah, I mean, that element, I would say probably the environment, the nature parts of what he had to say to Congress, probably with the bits that didn't land quite as well as others.

Well, we've been told a number of times by some of the diplomats involved in setting up the trip and working on the planning that they do not view this as a reset and they don't like that kind of language.

They've also said that the government didn't go into this trip with big objectives to come out the other end, like we often have on these state visits around trade and things, that there aren't big objectives here.

It is much more, as we know, about the mood music and how everyone feels about each other and the state of the relationship.