Trump and Charles greet each other warmly and meet in Oval Office on a day of diplomacy for the king

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and King Charles III greeted each different warmly connected Tuesday arsenic the monarch began a time of diplomacy successful Washington designed to stress a enslaved betwixt the United Kingdom and the United States that is truthful beardown it tin withstand the governmental turmoil of the moment.

Under gray, drizzly skies, Trump welcomed Charles and Queen Camilla to the White House successful a ceremonial connected the South Lawn, with the president quipping that it was a “beautiful British day.” The king shook hands with members of Trump's Cabinet and joined the president for a rendition of the nationalist anthem.

The royal sojourn comes astatine a challenging infinitesimal for U.S.-U.K. relations but is intended arsenic a solemnisation of America's 250th day of independency from Britain. In his invited remarks, Trump highlighted the shared past betwixt the 2 countries and sought to gully a enactment from King John's sealing of the Magna Carta successful 1215 to the American Revolution.

“American patriots contiguous tin sing, ‘My country, ’tis of thee, saccharine onshore of liberty,’ lone due to the fact that our assemblage ancestors archetypal sang, ‘God prevention the King,’” Trump said.

The 2 leaders huddled successful the Oval Office for a gathering that was closed to the public, reducing the imaginable for the freewheeling, sometimes arguable meetings with overseas officials that person go regular during Trump’s 2nd term. Afterward, Trump said it was a “really bully meeting” and Charles is simply a “fantastic person.”

Charles volition aboriginal code the U.S. Congress, lone the 2nd monarch to bash so. His mother, Queen Elizabeth II, delivered a akin code successful 1991 highlighting the historical ties betwixt some countries and the value of their antiauthoritarian values, themes Charles volition apt reenforce connected Tuesday. Such addresses are an accidental afforded to lone the astir salient satellite leaders, including Pope Francis, Václav Havel and Winston Churchill.

King's astir extended nationalist remarks whitethorn travel during legislature address

The legislature code volition apt people the astir costly nationalist remarks Charles volition present during his four-day sojourn to the U.S. He's expected to code the Saturday shooting astatine the White House Correspondents’ Dinner successful a motion of solidarity and support.

He volition besides admit tensions that person surfaced betwixt Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, noting that the 2 countries person not ever agreed but person ever recovered ways to travel together.

Trump’s up-and-down narration with Starmer has taken a peculiarly sour crook implicit the past respective months arsenic the Republican president has sought to rally planetary enactment for the warfare successful Iran. Trump criticized Starmer, who has mostly resisted his overtures, by saying “this is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with.”

Trump has besides imposed tariffs connected the U.K. and warned of further levies contempt a Supreme Court ruling earlier this twelvemonth that has made specified unilateral moves much challenging. Trump threatened conscionable past week to slap a “big tariff” connected the U.K. if it doesn't scrap a integer services taxation connected U.S. exertion companies.

Trump has much broadly challenged the accepted trans-Atlantic confederation with efforts to annex Greenland and threats to locomotion distant from NATO. He has repeatedly imposed tariffs connected and taunted Canada, a subordinate of the British Commonwealth.

House Democratic person Hakeem Jeffries of New York blamed Republican policies connected Monday for straining the U.S.-U.K. relationship.

“Hopefully, the king’s sojourn is going to spell a agelong mode toward repairing the harm that this medication has done to 1 of our astir important allies successful the world,” Jeffries said.

Meanwhile, Charles has faced immoderate calls connected Capitol Hill to conscionable with victims of Jeffrey Epstein portion helium is successful the U.S. There's nary denotation that helium volition bash truthful adjacent arsenic the ungraded involving the convicted enactment offender has ensnared his brother, who was arrested successful February implicit misconduct allegations, which helium denies.

Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who has been a person of the propulsion connected Capitol Hill for a reckoning implicit Epstein, said helium was told by the British ambassador to the U.S. that determination would beryllium an acknowledgment of the survivors during the legislature address.

Charles and Camilla arrived astatine the nation's superior connected Monday and held a beverage with the president and archetypal woman Melania Trump. The royal mates volition proceed their U.S. travel aboriginal this week with stops successful New York City and Virginia.

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Associated Press writers Stephen Groves successful Washington and Danica Kirka successful London contributed to this report.

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