British Prime Minister Keir Starmer visited President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday. — and hand delivered a note from King Charles III inviting the newly-elected leader to Great Britain for a second state visit.
"It's an invitation for a second state visit, this is really special, this has never happened before, this is unprecedented," Keir Starmer said — referencing Trump's official visit with the Queen during his first presidency in 2019.
Trump gushed over the letter, calling the king a "beautiful man."
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But senior International Correspondent for Canada's The Globe and Mail Mark MacKinnon said on X, "I’m reading that King Charles, who is allegedly Canada’s head of state, has just invited Donald Trump to visit Buckingham Palace. One hopes that one will raise the matter of threatening part of one’s realm with annexation, but one does not hope too much…"
As part of the British Commonwealth, Canada's head of state is the British monarch. Thus far, the king has not weighed in on Trump's threats to annex Canada and make it the 51st state of the U.S.
Podcast host Tamara Joy Stanners similarly referred to the sovereignty of Canada, and found it "so hard to stomach" watching "the PM of Britain...sucking up to Trump."
Michael Rass, former host of "The World" from PRX and journalist for Psynchronous Communications, agreed, "The British are sucking up to the felon big time."
U.K. political commentator Phil Moorhouse posted on Blue Sky, "King Charles has invited Trump to Scotland. That is some top trolling. Who's going to take over from Janey Godley RIP?" Godley was a Scottish comedian famed for pithy voiceovers of politicians.