Buckingham Palace: it is truly gut wrenching
to see the likes of this admin (Bolton, Sanders, etc.) and this "family" there supposedly representing us when the majority of us would prefer just about anyone else be there.
Hurts my heart and all I can wonder about is what bone-headed unpresidential thing is in store, because you know it's coming.
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...and the comity that used to represent the relationship between the US and UK.
FDR and the First Lady hosted King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mum) at Hyde Park in 1939. FDR's mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, was appalled that he was going to feed the King and Queen hot dogs at a picnic (The King and Queen were delighted), and was equally appalled when FDR broke out the bar early in the day (again, to the King's delight).
The most famous hot dogs in history were served at a picnic, right here in the Hudson Valley, on June 11, 1939. What made them famous was not their culinary excellence. It was their diplomatic significance. These hot dogs helped save the Western world from the Nazis.
The world-renowned weiners were dished up at a party in Hyde Park hosted by Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt (aka the President and First Lady of the United States). Their guests included a well-known British family, the Windsors (aka King George VI and Queen Elizabeth). The royal couple had never before sampled frankfurters, and found them, at first, confounding. “How do you eat this?” the queen whispered to her host. Ignoring Roosevelt’s advice, she decided to use a knife and fork; her husband, however, consumed his the American way. By all accounts, they enjoyed the tubular treats.
The picnic and the events surrounding it were momentous in a number of ways. This was the first time a reigning British monarch had ever set foot on U.S. soil. It came at a time when Europe was on the brink of war. Given these facts, the timing of the al fresco gathering was no mere accident.
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It would've been hysterical if she ate it like corn on the cob... 
And he's just getting started.
My heart also is hurting. I re-watched Obama's 2011 speech to Parliament, and it caused me physical pain to contemplate the contrast.
They are the creators of Monty Python, Downton Abbey and The Beatles among many remarkable achievements. The state visit of a few clowns for a day or two would not be a problem for them.
Reminds me of Pink Floyd's flying pig... 
Color me shocked! 
May those aspects of the Obama days that were both aspirational and inspirational
return/remain in our souls to lend the needed passion, protest and principles for days ahead.
The days when you could do the morning surf and not read about another "fresh hell'. When we had a president and an executive branch that weren't greedy, ignorant, vicious bad seeds.
backatcha
if Hair Trump's bone spurs flared up. No one knows the excruciating pain and misery of bone spurs more than our pResident, Donnie Drumpf. The world would be so disappointed if he couldn't make the D-Day ceremonies.
represents the United States at the commemoration of D-Day. He probably thinks that stands for Donald Day.
