65 h. ago Donald Trump 'ready to join British Commonwealth' as he declares love for King Charles

Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social account that he 'loves King Charles', adding that the idea of the US becoming an 'associate member' of the British Commonwealth 'sounds good'

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3 d. ago Trump says he would be happy for US to become ‘associate’ Commonwealth member

US president posted Sun news story that referred to a supposed ‘secret offer’ King Charles is due to extend

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3 d. ago Trump stunningly agrees U.S. will become 'associate member' of the Commonwealth: 'I love King Charles'

President Donald Trump on Friday indicated he would accept an offer from King Charles to join the British Commonwealth.

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1 week ago Americans aren’t happy with Trump’s handling of the economy or his tariffs, new polls show

More than half of Americans disapprove of Trump’s economic policies

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2 w. ago Republican leadership tells party to stop holding public events – what impact will that have?

While it might save some politicians from public humiliation, it could also deprive Americans of opportunities to interact with their elected officialsAfter Roger Marshall, a senator from Kansas, was hounded out of his own town hall event last week, Republican party leaders had had enough. Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, and Richard Hudson, the chair of the GOP’s fundraising body, decided the embarrassment had to end, and they told Republicans to stop holding the public events.But while that might save some Republican politicians from public humiliation, it could also deprive Americans of opportunities to interact with their elected officials, experts said, and prevent people from letting their representatives they are not happy with the increasingly divisive direction of the Trump administration. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Britain doesn't rule the waves – it waives the rules for anything Trump wants’

Everything will be peachy as long as we keep toddler Trump happy, and as there are no depths our diminished country won’t plumb to win his approval, here’s Brian Reade's plan to win him over

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3 w. ago Russia licks its lips at Trump's 'public flagellation' of Zelensky in 'historic' showdown

Russia cheered on President Donald Trump in his Oval Office showdown Volodymyr Zelensky that resulted in the Ukrainian president being kicked out of the White House and peace talks put on hold.

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3 w. ago Starmer must take baton from Macron in effort to sway Trump on Ukraine

UK and France need to convince US to align with them over Ukraine, while at the UN Trump openly sides with RussiaKeir Starmer, when he visits the White House on Thursday, will have to pick up the many loose threads left by another chaotic day of diplomacy in the US in which America voted with Russia at the UN to protect Vladimir Putin from criticism over the invasion of Ukraine, and then saw Trump make assurances that Putin was happy for European forces to enter Ukraine – only to be contradicted by Moscow hours later.Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has been working in lockstep with the UK in a way the two countries have failed to since Brexit, and the aim was for the two leaders of Europe’s major military powers to use their visits this week to operate as a pincer movement pressing Trump to question Putin’s trustworthiness and more broadly to accept that America’s future still lay as a partner with Europe. Continue reading...

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