Britain gave President Donald Trump a welcome fit for the king he often pretends to be.
It was a day draped in more golden gilt — on Queen Victoria’s state coach, which bore the president to Windsor Castle; on the tunics of mounted soldiers; and on a state banquet table — than Trump has plastered over Mar-a-Lago and the Oval Office.
The reality star president adores pageantry and being at the center of it. And the royals rolled out perhaps more pomp than he’s ever seen. Bagpipers and guards in bearskins marched in his honor, and at a white-tie feast, he dined between a king (Charles III) and a future queen (Catherine, Princess of Wales) inside the grandest property in the regal real estate portfolio.
“This is truly one of the highest honors of my life,” Trump said, responding to the king’s toast.
Of all the flattery foreign nations have showered on Trump, this might be the finest.
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