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Monday, June 3, 2019
Trump insults London Mayor as Loser
Trump Insults London Mayor as ‘Loser’ as He Pays Tribute to the Queen
President
Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, take part in a welcome
ceremony at Buckingham Palace with Queen Elizabeth II in London on
Monday.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times
President
Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, take part in a welcome
ceremony at Buckingham Palace with Queen Elizabeth II in London on
Monday.CreditCreditDoug Mills/The New York Times
LONDON
— Queen Elizabeth II welcomed President Trump to Buckingham Palace on
Monday with an honor guard and royal artillery salute, while Mr. Trump
carried on an ugly dispute with the mayor of London, whom he called a
“stone cold loser” and said was doing a terrible job of running
Britain’s capital city.
The juxtaposition of high pageantry and low name-calling, on the first day of Mr. Trump’s state visit to Britain,
captured yet again the odd swath that this president cuts on the world
stage: impulsive and erratic, delighted by a lavish welcome but
preoccupied by petty feuds or events back home.
It
also showcased the deep ambivalence Mr. Trump’s visit has elicited. The
British public mostly rejects Mr. Trump and his policies, but the
governing elite recognizes the need to reinforce the alliance with the
United States as it negotiates Britain’s exit from the European Union.
Members
of Britain’s royalty did their part, treating Mr. Trump and the first
lady, Melania Trump, to lunch and a lavish state banquet at Buckingham
Palace. Mr. and Mrs. Trump had afternoon tea with the Prince of Wales
and his wife, Duchess of Cornwall, at their residence, Clarence House.
The Trumps also placed a wreath at Westminster Abbey, where England’s
queens and kings are crowned, married and laid to rest.
A policeman near Buckingham Palace during President Trump’s visit.CreditAlkis
Konstantinidis/Reuters
But
the stately narrative carried a more rough-edged subtext. Even before
Air Force One touched down outside London, Mr. Trump was on Twitter,
accusing the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, with whom he has feuded since
2016 over immigration, terrorism and other issues, of being “nasty” to
him, while misspelling the mayor’s name and mocking his stature.
“Kahn
reminds me very much of our dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de
Blasio, who has also done a terrible job — only half his height,” Mr.
Trump said in a message posted on Twitter, as he invoked another pet
target, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York. Mr. Khan, he said, should pay
attention to London’s crime rate.
The
dispute played out all day, with Conservative politicians stepping
forward to defend Mr. Trump and criticize Mr. Khan. It was a jarring
counterpoint to the gauzy images of the president meeting the royal
family, but it played to Mr. Trump’s desire, even when visiting one of
America’s closest allies, to have an adversary.
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Mr.
Khan, a Muslim of Pakistani extraction, had earlier described Mr. Trump
as “just one of the most egregious examples of a growing global threat”
and likened the president’s language to that used by “fascists of the
20th century.” In particular, he has singled out Mr. Trump’s effort to
ban travelers from Muslim countries.
In
a video the day before Mr. Trump’s arrival, posted by Elle UK, Mr. Khan
expanded his attack to gender issues, saying the president was
promoting policies that would relegate women to second-class status and
force them to have back-alley abortions.
“Your values and what you stand for,” he said, “are the complete opposite of London’s values and the values in the country.”
Mr.
Trump had earlier castigated the mayor for his handling of a 2017
terrorist attack on the London Bridge that killed 11 people. He repeated
his criticism of Mr. Khan to Britain’s foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt,
as he greeted him on the tarmac. Mr. Hunt, for his part, lashed out at
Mr. Khan and other Labour Party leaders for boycotting Mr. Trump’s visit
and leading protests against him.
Mr.
Trump did not limit himself to the mayor. Soon after entering the
residence of the American ambassador, Robert Wood Johnson IV, the
president expressed his unhappiness with CNN’s coverage of his arrival
over Twitter.
“After
watching it for a short while, I turned it off,” the president wrote.
“All negative & so much Fake News, very bad for U.S.”
Mr.
Trump’s spirits appeared to have lifted by noon, when he arrived at
Buckingham Palace, a three-mile journey he made by helicopter. In May
2011, President Barack Obama made the same trip by motorcade, driving
past cheering crowds. By using a helicopter, Mr. Trump avoided any
possibility of encountering protesters, though the main demonstrations
are expected on Tuesday.
President
Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, arrive at Winfield House in
London, where they will be staying during their visit.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times
President
Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, arrive at Winfield House in
London, where they will be staying during their visit.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times
At
the palace, Mr. Trump inspected an honor guard with Prince Charles,
while the queen watched, alongside Mrs. Trump and the Duchess of
Cornwall, the wife of Charles.
Following
a private lunch, Queen Elizabeth showed Mr. Trump a collection of gifts
that appeared carefully curated to reflect his interests. They included
a map of New York from 1775, a natural history of the Carolinas,
Florida and the Bahama Islands, and a table devoted to the Scottish
links, with golf-related pictures, letters and a bolt of
tartan-patterned Harris tweed. Mr. Trump owns a golf club in Scotland.
Then
he was off to lay the wreath and tour Westminster Abbey. The president
stopped at a slab of marble honoring Lord Byron, and inquired about the
stones used to make the flooring.
At
the banquet, where Mr. Trump’s children were seated between princes and
captains of industry, Mr. Trump and the queen exchanged toasts before a
pair of gilded thrones.
In his
toast, Mr. Trump spoke of the shared legacy of the D-Day invasion 75
years ago, which both leaders will commemorate this week. He hailed a
young female mechanic who repaired military truck engines during World
War II, and who was to become “the future queen — a great, great woman.”
President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, at Westminster Abbey, where they participated in a wreath-laying ceremony.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times
In
her toast, the queen pointedly took note of the multilateral
institutions that Britain and the United States helped to create after
World War II to prevent another war — institutions, like NATO, that Mr.
Trump has denigrated. “While the world has changed,” she said, “we are
forever mindful of the original purpose of these structures.”
Mr.
Trump’s clash with Mr. Khan intruded on what was supposed to be the
less political of the president’s two full days in London. On Tuesday,
the president is scheduled to visit Prime Minister Theresa May at 10
Downing Street, three days before she relinquishes leadership of her
party amid a deepening paralysis over Brexit.
Mr.
Trump has been vocal about his desire to see Britain make a clean break
from the European Union. In an interview with The Sunday Times of
London, published before he had left Washington, the president said
Britain should “walk away” from Brexit negotiations to extract better
terms. He also suggested naming Nigel Farage, the leader of a pro-Brexit party, as the country’s main negotiator.
And there were brief reminders of another contretemps that Mr. Trump set off just before leaving the United States.
During
the exhibit of gifts, cameras caught Prince Harry making a brief
appearance at the back of the room, but quickly ducking out again.
The
prince’s wife, the Duchess of Sussex, formerly known as Meghan Markle,
an American actress, was deeply critical of Mr. Trump in November 2016
just before he was elected. She does not plan to meet Mr. Trump on this
trip, British officials said, because she is on maternity leave.
When
Mr. Trump was told of those remarks last week by an interviewer for the
British tabloid The Sun, he said he didn’t know “she was nasty.” He
then denied the remark, which was on an audio recording.
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