Lewis

Trump, insofar as Trump, Trump wouldn't have even understood most of what the king was saying, right?

There was that good gag he had about saying, you know, oh, Mr. President, you were saying the other day that were it not for you, we in Europe and we in Britain would be speaking German.

Well, can I just subtly remind you?

Well, actually, let's just hear the end of the gag.

Good gag.

But Trump will not have understood it.

He will have had no clue what it even referred to or what it even meant.

And insofar, if he does at some point kind of connect the dots, and I think there were certainly some people, including J.D.

Vance, who did not applaud at all the moments that some other American politicians who were in Congress were applauding.

If others do connect the dots, then you can actually completely imagine

that at some point Trump or others will start to express their displeasure with some of these things.

I mean, when I say we've played this before, what Trump does is that he loves the royal afterglow.

He loves being around it.

He loves strutting around like a sort of peacock, pretending that he himself is a king.

And we saw the White House literally tweet out a picture of the two of them saying,

Two kings trolling all of his opponents, as he often does.

But he banks it, he enjoys it, and then literally 24, 36, 48 hours later, he moves on.

Let's not forget that it was only in September, September, that we had his visit here.

At that visit, the state dinner at Windsor Castle, an experience Trump described as one of the highest honours of my life.

Merely months later, he's attacking the Royal Navy and belittling Keir Starmer as a coward for not entering the US-Israeli war in Iran.