Trump to Avoid London Protests With Tour of English Country Homes
Source: U.S. News & World Report
July 6, 2018, at 11:04 a.m.
BY ANDREW MACASKILL
LONDON (Reuters) - Donald Trump is steering clear of the mass protests in central London that will mark his first visit to Britain as president next week, instead meeting dignitaries outside the capital at country residences and a castle.
Over 50,000 people have signed up for a protest in central London to demonstrate against Trump's perceived racism, sexism, and his treatment of migrants. A counter-gathering to welcome him is also planned.
Trump will hold talks with Prime Minister Theresa May at her 16th-century manor house, meet Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle and attend a black-tie dinner at the home of former World War Two leader Winston Churchill - all outside London.
A spokeswoman for May said on Friday the trip had not been deliberately planned to keep Trump away from protesters and that British people were looking forward to his visit.
Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-07-06/trump-to-avoid-london-protests-with-tour-of-english-country-homes
TheCowsCameHome
(40,169 posts)so he can't outrun all of them.
riversedge
(70,309 posts)Zoonart
(11,879 posts)Have yeta naother vacation on the taxpayer dime? Or is he mimicking the "Royal Progress?"
riversedge
(70,309 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,595 posts)After all, Mike Pence has to have something to do on the trip.
FakeNoose
(32,777 posts)... with checkbook in hand. How many hospitable English people will he manage to insult?
Bengus81
(6,933 posts)Maxheader
(4,374 posts)Or is the orange monkey getting braver? Trusting its security..
which it should. But in 17' it started hesitating and canceling
some visits? South ameria..somewhere..
bunny planet
(10,875 posts)He can stroll through Salisbury and touch some doorknobs
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)DBoon
(22,397 posts)He knows Putin and knows what a fine wonderful gentleman he is.
Russia poisoning its emigres is fake news to him.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Thanks for the smile
olegramps
(8,200 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)Need to get bus tickets for the 50,000.
WhiteTara
(29,722 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)sad
cp
(6,664 posts)and "British people looking forward to his visit" only in order to mock him.
Bengus81
(6,933 posts)underpants
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They'd never admit it but this really pisses him off. He LOVES the spectacle of being seen with the rich and famous. Being told "stay out" rips him up.
Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)riversedge
(70,309 posts)riversedge
(70,309 posts)So, now we know the flothus will travel with trump
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)to re-enact Lady Godiva's ride?? She is used to being nude, after all. Oh, wait, she gets PAID for those nude encounters. Will Princess Ivanka be there, too? She is reported to think the tRump family is American royalty!!!
T_i_B
(14,749 posts)That going through the streets of Coventry will not be on President Fart's agenda. Same will apply for Mrs Fart.
Vinca
(50,310 posts)underpants
(182,904 posts)appalachiablue
(41,177 posts)not Windsor Palace, 30 mins. away, or Churchill's birthplace Blenheim near Oxford and later home Chartwell in Kent, or Chequers, the Buckinghamshire country home of PM Theresa May. So it's a state sponsored tourist visit to countryside manor homes with an afterwards trip to Scotland where Trump's mother is from and where he has two golf courses.
- Blenheim Palace, near Oxford where Winston Churchill was born.
- Chartwell, Sir Winston Churchill's former home in Kent, England.
- Chequers, country home of UK prime ministers including Theresa May since 1921, Buckinghamshire.
T_i_B
(14,749 posts)As both of those are too close to Sheffield, where President Fart has been banned from in a display of gesture politics by Mayor Majid Majid!
appalachiablue
(41,177 posts)elleng
(131,136 posts)as the Scots wouldn't stand for it!!!
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)'Sorry, li'l donnie, we just can't control how 95% of our citizens hate your guts.' I'd love to see how the diplomatic communique expressing that fact was worded.
Maybe his hosts can roll a buckboard around the courtyard, with him in it, at the country estate.
Grammy23
(5,815 posts)Im eager to hear how much they are looking forward to his visit.
Cha
(297,712 posts)kimbutgar
(21,206 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)put it where he has decided to terrorize with his presence? Oh yeah, the naked statue of him also. I think it would be great to go there and support our true allies. Maybe they should take pictures of the blimp and enlarge them and plaster them all over England and the entire UK wherever he may be going.
lark
(23,158 posts)He just can't handle criticism so he's running and hiding like a scaredy cat. Nothing in the wold manly about that orange anus, nothing at all except nastiness through and through.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)kimbutgar
(21,206 posts)I suspect there will be protesters in private fields jeering him and overhead planes flying banners condemning him. I was in London in September of 2015 and people asked us if the American people were daft enough to elect that idiot. At the time I said no way. Boy, was I wrong! There were even editorials in the newspapers highlighting his failures as a businessman. I wish I had kept one of those papers now.
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)That includes Winfield House, the US Ambassador's residence in Regents Park, London, where Trump is to spend the night. That's how they'll probably move him.
My guess is that they'll drive him around only as a last resort. The protestors won't see him.
Flashback: on the Obamas' last trip to the UK as POTUS/FLOTUS, they traveled to Windsor Castle where they were to lunch with the Queen for her birthday. She and Prince Philip not only went out to meet them at the helicopter landing area, but quite unexpectedly, Prince Philip himself chauffeured them all back to the castle proper.
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)Liar
heaven05
(18,124 posts)is like a majority of his base. A low life coward with a big mouth and scared to death people will find out just what a pervert, con man, crook he is. That make him deplorable like his base.
Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)Dartmoor prison. He can be Her Majesty's guest for twenty years.
Wolf
treestar
(82,383 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)It's a small country, he can't run that far!
T_i_B
(14,749 posts)Good look to security keeping the extensive grounds of that place free of protestors.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)zanana1
(6,129 posts)They seem to avoid alot of things like demonstrations, etc.
salin
(48,955 posts)How quaint? No, how pathetic.
"Laughing stock?! Laughing stock?! No, You're the Laughing stock!"
tanyev
(42,622 posts)*sigh*