
King Charles is on a mission to salvage UK relations with Trump
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Buckingham Palace Sunday said it was in touch with U.S. security officials to determine if any changes to the king’s schedule were necessary.A palace official also said that King Charles reached out to Trump to express his sympathies to all affected.Trump is excited to welcome the 77-year-old king, saying in recent days that “we’re going to have a great time.”Much is at stake.
The “Special Relationship” between the U.S. and its mother country is at a generational low, thanks to growing frictions over everything from trade to the war in Ukraine to Trump’s threats to seize Greenland.
The U.S. attack on Iran has also caused energy prices to jump, damaging the British economy and exasperating the British government, which thinks the war is illegal and unwise.
Trump meanwhile regularly harangues British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on social media for not supporting his military endeavors in the Middle East and for the U.K. government’s penchant for wind-powered energy, which he hates.Reports that the Pentagon is drawing up plans to punish NATO
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