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Why Britain is banking on a 'Trump-fest'
It was perhaps not quite how officials, in London at least, had envisaged the announcement of the state visit would be made.
In the Oval Office, Donald Trump revealed the news in his own way. "I was invited by the King and the great country.
They are going to do a second fest - that's what it is. It is beautiful," he said during an impromptu Oval Office moment.
The question was, did this "fest" - which Mr Trump suggested could happen in September - amount to the much hyped second state visit for the American president? Or was this actually just the smaller visit that had been offered two months ago as an initial bilateral visit at which the state visit would be discussed? Back in February, Sir Keir Starmer presented the president with a letter from King Charles and the offer of a state visit. The letter proposed an initial meeting between the King and the president to discuss details of the state visit at either Dumfries House or Balmoral, both in Scotland, close to Mr Trump's golf clubs.
The King wrote: "Quite apart from this presenting an opportunity to discuss a wide range of issues of mutual interest, it would also offer a valuable chance to plan a historic second state visit to the United Kingdom… As you will know this is unprecedented by a US president. That is why I would find it helpful for us to be able to discuss, together, a range of options for location and programme content." As he revealed the news of his "fest" with his "friend Charles.
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