Gary O'Donoghue

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1,144 appearances 20 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 7 Sep

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Newscast · The King Arrives In The US, But Can He Mend The Special Relationship? · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

With a semi-automatic weapon, if you're in that space, you could have caused carnage in seconds.

Absolute carnage.

Even if you didn't get, you know, Donald Trump or anyone on the top table, you could have caused absolute carnage.

And it beggars belief, really, that somehow the kind of confluence of the supposed security but this normal hotel with all its guests in it, how that makes sense, I don't know.

And, you know...

Hilton have blamed the Secret Service, as you can imagine, but they're getting a bit of a reputation, aren't they, given this was the very place that Reagan got shot as well.

I'm certain that Trump won't try and embarrass the king and queen.

I'm certain he won't do that.

I don't think he'd do that.

And I think, you know, if you asked him at the end of the trip, has it done any good, he'll probably tell you it hasn't, etc.

But these advantages, these achievements can evaporate

in a moment.

If the president gets upset about something that comes out of London or something London won't do, the good that's done doesn't necessarily last.

So, I would have pretty low expectations for any kind of long-term impact.

The president enjoys having people like the king and queen here, obviously.

He has a soft spot in some ways.

He's an Anglophile in that sense.

He was very fond of the former queen, obviously.

But in terms of the lasting impact beyond that kind of glow that you get from the moment and the days around it and the couple of days afterwards, I'd be amazed if it kind of changes his overall attitude.

to the British government, for example, which we know can be extraordinarily fickle.

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