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How do you think the Queen feels about Trump?

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KindergartenKop · 03/06/2019 12:54

Do you think she likes having him visit or do you think this will be the toughest week of her 93 year long career? (Bar maybe the blitz).

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NeverPutAWetFootInABirkenstock · 03/06/2019 19:13

Apart from opening stuff, what does the queen actually DO? Not being sarky, I’ve genuinely no idea what fills her day. If she’s not allowed to express an opinion ever what does her role consist of?

Frittata · 03/06/2019 19:16

Of course she hates him, she's not stupid. She's doing it for her country. As far as I'm concerned she's earnt every penny of tax payers' money having to shake that odious little man's hand.

AnneElliott · 03/06/2019 19:22

I imagine he's not the worst HoS that she ever met. I watched a documentary on Buckingham Palace a while ago and one of the visiting dignitaries once slaughtered a goat in their suite of rooms. That must have been more disagreeable than Trump!

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sluj · 03/06/2019 19:22

Whatever she thinks, she will play the part of host with impeccable manners and welcome our invited guest.
I an no fan of DT but I do think we should be behaving bit better over this. Basic good manners should mean that we welcome him and be polite and I am cringing a bit at some of the things going on. I have to say I've surprised myself with these thoughts but I'm definitely embarrassed by some of the politicians, protestors and press. Blush

midsomermurderess · 03/06/2019 19:29

But, slij these things going on, as you put it, are not being done by Trump' official hosts. He is being treated with the utmost respect and courtesy, as one would expect., What people outside that circle do surely is their right?

sluj · 03/06/2019 19:44

Midsomer, I get that and am a bit surprised by the strength of my feelings about this. Perhaps it's because I think they will be seen to be representing Britain and actually we invited him here in the first place. We should be separating the man from his role and behaving like adults. Also I think he is here to pay respect to the people who took part in D Day 75 years ago and I think this hullabaloo takes away from that.

I have very little personal respect for him but he was elected and represents the USA just as the people here represent us .

Perhaps it's just my idea of good manners kicking in?

ForalltheSaints · 03/06/2019 19:52

We will never know.

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Al2O3 · 03/06/2019 20:15

I imagine she wonders why he can’t buy his wife a decent pair of shoes for walking across the airport tarmac.

midsomermurderess · 03/06/2019 20:18

Sluj, at the level, as it were, where good manners can be expected, they are kicking in. Trump is one of the most reviled, dangerous and disruptive presidents the world has seen. He is deliberately attacking and seeking to undermine the post-1945, the post-cold war, world order that has brought peace and prosperity to so much of the world, and to our continent. He is a very dangerous man. Politeness does not cut it with someone like him. What he is doing deserves, requires, more than 'politeness'.

ProudAunty2nine · 03/06/2019 20:56

She has certainly earned my 64p - or however much it is these days - today. Never mind the the diplomacy she shows shes 93 years old and that gets my respect

EleanorReally · 03/06/2019 21:10

i would like to hear prince philip's opinion Grin

i wish he would stop touching her, that is forbidden

ginghambox · 03/06/2019 23:43

Maybe the thinks " Thank fuck those bloody awful Obamas have gone"

Ohyesiam · 03/06/2019 23:45

My 12 year old informed me today that she hates him and will be grumpy all week.

Historydweeb · 04/06/2019 00:00

Is her husband any less of a verbal colostomy bag? I mean, she must have some fairly extensive experience of dealing with smarmy arselicking scrotums

CryHavoc · 04/06/2019 00:07

Why does it matter? It burns me that they are still relevant. I cannot believe that in 2019 we live in a country where we defer to people who are superior to the rest of due entirely to an accident of birth.

It's not the wealth that bothers me most. It's the bowing and scraping and curtsying that makes me angry. I have absolutely no time for Trump, I find his views abhorrent, and hope he is voted out at the earliest opportunity, but he was ELECTED (albeit by a questionable vote) whereas the Queen was just born Royal.

I could go on and on about this, but I think it's easier to just dust my hands and say I cannot bring myself to give a shit if she has to have dinner with someone she might not like very much.

howwudufeel · 04/06/2019 07:44

I do find the Queen very interesting. How she has managed to charm both Trump and Jeremy Corbyn is quite impressive.

Storytell · 04/06/2019 09:22

How she has managed to charm both Trump and Jeremy Corbyn is quite impressive.

Has she charmed Corbyn? He seems to have been uncharmed enough not to attend the state banquet.

And I don't think she has to actually do anything to charm -- people are, depressingly, just impressed by her royal status. It's a bit like fangirls paying money for a meet and greet with some boyband and convincing themselves that a hug and a photo means they have a genuine connection.

howwudufeel · 04/06/2019 10:01

Storytell Corbyn is boycotting Trump, not the Queen. He speaks very highly of the Queen.

HappydaysArehere · 04/06/2019 10:04

She certainly gave the Trumps a lovely smile of welcome.

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