It is no secret that Donald Trump loves a bit of pomp and ceremony – and he got it in spades at Windsor Castle on Wednesday.
Greeted personally by the King, Queen, Prince William and the Princess of Wales, the President was treated almost like a royal himself.
The state banquet went off without a hitch: the King paid lavish tribute to Trump’s supposed ability to bring peace to war-torn territories, and in return the President could hardly have been more complimentary about Britain – saying that “we’ve done more good for humanity than any two countries in all of history”.
But for the British Government, the flummery is not the point of this state visit. All that extravagance is in service of a cause: keeping Trump on side and on message.
That is why Thursday’s proceedings, with the American visitor spending hours holed up with Sir Keir Starmer at Chequers, is far more important than the Windsor Castle fun.
The President’s appreciation of good visuals is not always enough to secure his friendship. Just ask, for example, India’s Narendra Modi: the two leaders have always had a chummy relationship, but that did not stop Trump imposing eye-watering tariffs on New Delhi this year.
And though Trump – who is half-Scottish – clearly has a genuine love of the UK, he has not hesitated to speak out against British policies when the mood takes him, as when he denounced Theresa May’s approach to Brexit during his first term in office.
There is no shortage of potential flashpoints between Downing Street and the White House. Right now, the most acute is surely Gaza – Starmer is about to recognise Palestinian statehood, a move the US administration considers a boost for the terrorists of Hamas.
But there is also Ukraine, where Trump’s peace-making attempts have borne no fruit, and the trade wars from which Britain has secured only a partial carve-out.
The big hope is that rolling out the red carpet will have softened up the President and made him more amenable to Starmer’s lobbying. The danger is it might have done the opposite, convincing Trump that warm words and luxurious feasts are a substitute for the tricky compromises of diplomacy.
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