God save the King! I never thought I would see His Majesty stick the boot so deftly into President Donald Trump’s derriere. The royal address to Congress was the speech of King Charles III’s life, delivered with panache in an immaculately tailored pin-striped suit.
The chamber was packed with US lawmakers, but the King was addressing an audience of one. The President. That night, as the royal guest tucked into spring ravioli and Dover sole with the Queen, First Lady and a bunch of tech bros at the White House state dinner, the seismic impact of Charles’s speech was only just being digested.
By now, it is abundantly clear that Trump was humiliated by the British monarch. Time and again, the King slapped him down. The zingers kept coming thick and fast. If Charles had turned up the volume instead of speaking in soft, honeyed tones, he would have appeared to have been bellowing at the President from the lectern.
The rebukes kept flying at the White House dinner when Charles quipped, “Dare I say it, if it wasn’t for us, you’d be speaking French” – a retort to Trump’s remarks about European countries speaking German if America hadn’t come to their aid in wartime.
On the surface, Trump was all smiles and bonhomie, but he must have been seething inside. The contrast between the uncharacteristically fawning President, honored to be receiving royals worthy of his attention, and the King, deploying all the soft power at his disposal to put him down, was too great.
Essentially, the King told Trump in his speech that Britain’s partnership with the US would outlast a mere here-today, gone-tomorrow President like him. He stressed that the relationship went back 400 years, not just the 250 years since American independence, and that US democracy was founded on the Magna Carta, English common law and British enlightenment values. The message was, “Don’t mess with it.”
Charles then skewered Trump and his America First philosophy by saying, “The challenges we face are too great for any one nation to bear alone” and referred to the “unpredictable environment” affecting allies. I wonder who the King was thinking about here? (Trump loves to boast that unpredictability is his superpower.)
The unspecific, impersonal nature of Charles’ jab reminded me of Norah O’Donnell’s interview with Trump on CBS News Sixty Minutes last weekend. When she asked about an apparent reference to a “paedophile, rapist and traitor” in writings by Cole Allen, the alleged White House correspondents’ dinner shooter, the President lashed out, “I’m not a rapist.”
“Oh,” she replied coolly. “Do you think he was referring to you?”
Trump will be in no doubt that he was uppermost in Charles’ mind throughout the address. It wasn’t just the King’s nod to his service in the Royal Navy (Trump has called British ships “toys’), the tart reminder that the UK and Nato came to America’s defence after 9/11, the shout-out to the “courageous people” of Ukraine, or the pointed references to “diversity”. The whole speech was an affront to Trump’s values.
Astonishingly, the King is emerging from his four-day visit to America as a far better champion of US democracy than its President. The monarch has met members of all three pillars of the government – the executive (Trump), the legislative (Congress) and the judicial (Supreme Court justices attended his address).
Trump treats these institutions bar his own with contempt. Congress has been rendered toothless – the Senate’s current preoccupation is passing a $400m spending bill on his White House ballroom – while Republican Supreme Court justices have been berated for being “weak, stupid and bad” for suspending tariffs.
In contrast, Charles urged Congress to grow a spine. Why else would he say, “The promise of America’s founders is present in every session and every vote cast not by the will of one [hint, hint], but by the deliberation of many”?
He went on to praise the “rule of law” and “an independent judiciary” for resolving disputes and delivering “impartial justice” and “unmatched economic growth” at a time when Trump is persecuting perceived internal enemies and the Iran war is upending the US economy.
These were no accidental, innocuous remarks. There was a deeper meaning behind every word of the King’s address. Charles didn’t say, “It really is appalling” in Private-Eye royal speak, but that was the clear implication of his remarks.
Here was a voice of sanity, a polite reminder that America is greater than the behaviour of its president. This could cost Trump dear at a time when his approval ratings are tumbling and US voters disapprove of his handling of cost of living issues by 69-22 percent, according to the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Charles spoke eloquently of his “regard” and “respect” for America and its people. What he meant was, “With all due respect, Mr President, stop behaving like an idiot and get a grip.”
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