When the Trump marriage set foot on the track of the Stansted London airport, late on Tuesday, some 70 people had already congregated in front of Windsor Castle, the residence of the British royal family that will host the US president and his wife during his state visit to the United Kingdom.
Most protesters had a peaceful attitude, and they sang slogans like “Trump outside” or “High say, Clear say: Donald Trump is not welcome.” But four people were arrested after they were projected by surprise, on one of the torrels of the castle,
The figure of Epstein, which ended up committed to a New York cell in 2019, will be a permanent shadow of tension in the two -day lightning visit that Keir Starmer’s government wanted him not to have Tacha, with the purpose of obtaining economic and political benefits of the so -called “special relationship” with Washington.
Days before the arrival of Trump, the historical and cunning politician of the era of Tony Blair Peter Mandelson, after revealing the press his close relationship with Epstein and his messages of complicity to the magnate when he had already been convicted of a sexual crime against minors.
That matter and protests on the street can end up sorbing a visit that was intended to be loaded with pomp and boato to feed Trump’s ego. It is the second time that the American dignitary arrives to the United Kingdom invited by the Royal House, a treatment that none of its predecessors in the White House had enjoyed. Starmer wanted to use this adulation strategy, rejected by many of his critics within the Labor Party, to reinforce his good relationship with the American in times of geopolitical and economic uncertainty.
Protests in London
The Trump marriage was received on the ladder of the plane by Henry Hood, the nobleman who went on behalf of the host of the visit, King Carlos III. Next to him was the new British Foreign Minister, Yvette Cooper. The helicopter Marine One He immediately took the president already his wife to the residence of the US ambassador to London, where they spent the first night.
It has been mid -morning, this Wednesday, when they have been received with all the honors in Windsor by the princes of Wales, Guillermo and Kate, who came at the foot of the helicopter to receive marriage. Carlos III of England were waiting at the main entrance of one of the buildings of the complex, where they have welcomed the Trump.
Two real carriages, the Irish State Coach and the Scottish State CoachThey have taken the four to the main residence. The king and the president were traveling in the first. Melania Trump and Queen Camilla, in the second.
The marriage will participate at the end of the day at a gala dinner offered by the kings. Before, Trump will also go to the Chapel of San Jorge, within the castle of the Castle, to deposit a crown of flowers in the tomb of Isabel II.
In recent days, after the murder of Trump’s ultra -right and ally activist Charlie Kirk.
Although the presence of hundreds of protesters around the real residence is expected, it will be difficult for the American to see some. The castle has entrenched in several kilometers around.
The great demonstration is scheduled this afternoon in downtown London, organized by the Stop Trump coalition. Again, as during the visit he made during his first term, he will be floating in the sky of the British capital the famous Baby Trumpan immense balloon baby in diapers, with the image of the dignitary. The city will be flooded with security agents to avoid altercations.
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, with whom Trump has had a sour dispute and who does not stop attacking the slightest occasion – the last one, in front of the Starmer himself in the Oval Office, for pregnancy of the British Prime Minister – has written a “welcome” tribune in the newspaper The Guardian in which he accuses US president of having done more than anyone for “enviving polarization flames and extreme right policies around the world in recent years.”
The political content
Although Trump’s visit is more formal and symbolic than practice, the US leader will have a few hours of work with Starmer on Thursday. Both will meet in checks, the official pending country residence of the Prime Minister, along with their respective equipment.
London and Washington have anticipated a great collaboration agreement on nuclear energy, and Trump has reached the United Kingdom with a group of technological magnates that intend to announce large investments in the field of artificial intelligence and quantum computing. In return, they have made the Labor Government with its efforts to increase taxes to digital activity.
Before undertaking his trip to London, Trump told the press that he was willing to improve however, everything suggests that expectations have been disinfined. There will be discounts in the tariffs that Washington imposes on whiskey or Scottish salmon, but will stand a 25% lien to British aluminum and steel exports to the United States. The Labor Prime Minister hoped to reduce them to zero.
