She is not Meghan Markle. She is the Duchess of Sussex.
In all the hullabaloo today about Trump calling Meghan Markle nasty one thing is really getting my goat.
Trump calling her nasty is not a surprise. She is a woman of colour who would rather cut off her own head and eat it than meet him. Who could blame her? Of course he is going to be rude about it.
However, she is the Duchess of Sussex and married to the fifth in line to the throne. That in this whole debate today everyone has failed to use her title, like they know her.... just smacks of racism and misogyny.
Just sayin'
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under the royal oaks at dawn. 
I bet that would get high ratings.
genius 
Nixon tried to introduce royal uniforms for the White House police back in the 1970s. That didn't go over too well. It's just the sort of thing that Trump would think was a swell idea.
I predict Trump will revive Nixon's palace guard uniforms.
by Megan McArdle
August 19, 2013 7:00 AM
It’s a Monday in the middle of August, and we could all use a break. So let’s go back in time to January 1970, when President Richard Nixon was preparing for a visit from Prime Minister Harold Wilson. Nixon, who thought his White House uniform guards looked “slovenly,” had them outfitted in new uniforms, based on the honor guards he had seen, and been impressed by, in Europe.
My husband, upon seeing this, immediately said “Oh my God, those look like marching band uniforms!” You can kind of picture them sticking a flute in those holsters, can’t you? If an enemy charged the White House, they could quick-draw and start fifing away. “Give ‘em the old Yankee Doodle Dandy, boys!”
The public reaction to the new uniforms was not good. Here’s how Richard Reeves describes it in President Nixon, Alone in the White House:
A couple of days after the State of the Union address, Democrats and the press finally got a chance to mock Nixon. The occasion was a state visit by Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Great Britain — and the official unveiling of new White House police uniforms, inspired by the honor guards Nixon had seen in Europe. The cops were wearing double-breasted white tunics with starred epaulets, gold piping, draped braid, and high black plastic hats decorated with a large White House crest. “They look like old-time movie ushers,” said the Buffalo News. “The Student Prince” said the Chicago Daily News. In the Chicago Tribune, a Nixon friend, columnist Walter Trohan, was more serious, saying the uniforms belonged onstage, calling them “frank borrowing from decadent European monarchies, which is abhorrent to this country’s democratic tradition.”
The uniforms didn’t last long. The black hats were the first to go, and by the mid-1970s, the whole uniform had been abandoned. In 1980, the barely-used uniforms were repurposed as…yes, you guessed it, the uniforms for the Southern Utah State marching band. Apparently, the college beat out rock singer Alice Cooper, who had wanted five of the tunics for his band. The marching band paid the General Services Administration $90 for shipping, plus a charge for cleaning and pressing.
There’s no larger point to this — except, I guess, that we democracy-loving Americans don’t want any movie ushers or fife-and-drum corpsmen on the steps of our White House. I just figured we could all use an afternoon laugh.
January 1970: The White House guard (secret service uniformed division) publicly revealed their new uniforms which featured a white, double-breasted tunic with gold shoulder trim and a stiff shako hat with peaked front. They replaced the black uniforms the guards had previously worn on ceremonial occasions.
President Nixon had ordered that a new uniform be designed after he had seen what palace guards wore in other countries and had decided that the White House needed something as fancy.
I guess it’s supposed to mean something?
of the royal family.
I remember when Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson, she was generally referred to as "Fergie".
Just now, checking on the Wikipedia article about Diana Princess of Wales, she's referred to simply as "Diana" pretty much throughout the article, which is how I remember it from back when she was alive.
I believe that I've also often seen William and Harry referred to as "William and Harry".
My point is that I don't think there is any disprespect intended by it, and I don't think that she's been singled out in this respect. Maybe Americans are, overall, simply more informal?
The Duchess of Sussex represents everything he detests: she's a smart, beautiful woman of color, who is accomplished, articulate, opinionated, and was not "helped by the Russians" to achieve her current position. He not only hates her, he's scared to death of her.
Plus, she is viewed as an equal to Prince Harry, not a bought-and-paid-for trophy wife.
Fat Donnie is running around proclaiming, "The British people love me." The staff is going to have to block out the windows on Marine One (or the British A.F. equivalent) so he won't see the 200,000 protesters who plan on bring London to a stop during his visit. I hope the helicopter make it a point to fly by the "Crying Baby Trump" blimp on its way to the Palace.
I wonder whether the Queen will wear the same brooch that President Obama paid for out of pocket as a personal gift to Her Majesty, as she did the last time Fat Donnie visited.
snail shite. he's not worthy of speaking the Duchess of Sussex' name.
