is a robotic statue of president trump on a golden commode and it speaks and it says some of president trump s more famous catch phrases like, you re fake news, no collusion, it s a witch-hunt. this protest is expected to gather throughout the day and people are going to march toward 10 downing street when president trump has the meeting with the lame duck prime minister theresa may. we will be checking in with you throughout the morning. it looks like the brits are going with humor this time around as they so often do. indeed, as they so often do. there is actually a gold commode in president trump s former office in trump tower. that s a true story. gene robinson, your latest piece for the washington post is entitled trump poses a test for the brits stiff upper lip. you wrote donald bone spurs trump, a special relationship
time of stability. it s as if there are two worlds, there is the world we ve had for the last 75 years since d-day in which the united states and united kingdom were in lockstep and came together as the two adults in the room to promote the idea of unified western democracy with organizations that supported that concept. now we have a world going forward which is almost immobilized by donald trump of change and we don t know quite what it brings and that that western liberal world order is up for grabs and about to become much less stable. you don t have the united states and the united kingdom in lockstep on a range of issues, climate change, middle east or china, they are out of synch. in a sense this visit is fascinating because you have the queen symbolizing the old order, where we could rely on certainties in the relationship
the account of the war effort that united britain and the united states. katty kay, you are there in london today where the president will hold a joint news conference with the prime minister. what s been the feeling on the ground inside london and inside the uk day one and a half now of the president s visit? i guess a sigh of relief that it went off okay yesterday in terms of pageantry. the president, of course, arriving and causing a political stir with a scathing attack on the mayor of london, the city that he was about to touchdown in, but in terms of the royal side of things, all of those weeks of preparation paid off. donald trump is seen to have performed the part just fine. there were no massive royal protocols breached. so you had this kind of odd mixture of the president doing the royal part of it well as he was meant to and yet politically and diplomatically causing headlines here and causing
world order, all these institutions, alliances, it s actually worked remarkably well. taking a step back, the question is, you know, you think about it, what came before, it was two world wars. we know what came before, which was the worst 50 years of human history. we had 75 years of relative peace, prosperity, democracy made tremendous strides around the world and here we are and donald trump is an outlier. so the real question is what comes after to frame it, are the last 75 years the normal now? donald trump is the exception. and then we kind of return, not exactly wro we were, but to something pretty familiar. or is donald trump the beginning of a new era so the last 75 years look like the exemption? we know what came before, two world wars, and now we re potentially entering an era of history which has all sorts of jockeying between great powers, the rise of china, these global forces we can t contend with, failed states in the middle east, populism, nationalism and
think his age works for him. yeah, i mean one of the interesting things is that young versus old divide and the social attack coming from the republicans. but i want to pick back up on the question about whether or not democratic voters are demanding a woman president. one thing that i m picking up and it is almost a third rail that is hard to talk about. but there are some people who, when you talk to them privately, they think that hillary clinton moved that a woman could not beat donald trump and there is concern about that. is that the case and is there truth to it? there has been a debate slightly quietly in hush hush