relationship between america and britain there, as you heard the queen talk about in that toast, the president talking about it as well there. but this is classic donald trump in terms of not really wanting to follow the script that most american presidents follow. and richard, let s talk about that. because obviously the royal family, they re keeping a stiff upper lip, as it were. but president trump responded to a negative op-ed by the mayor of london, by calling him a stone-cold loser. he was interviewed by the sun, newspaper, and they told him that plameghan markle had said e not-so-nice things about her in 2016, and he replied, i didn t know that she was nasty, then lied about saying that. and now he seems to be backing a rival of theresa may, boris johnson. how is this actually playing when the cameras aren t around? it s playing badly for the british public. this is a president who has a 21% approval rating than brits.
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looking to see what that trip tomorrow is going to look like. and nia, this is a state visit that involves a lot of tradition, a lot of protocol for a president who frankly defies all of that back home in the u.s. that s right. and revels in defying that, but in some ways revels in this, as well. the sort of pomp and circumstance. we ve seen different foreign leaders kind of roll out the red carpet for him and him kind of exaggerate and essentially say, this is the biggest celebration of american president we ve ever seen. obviously, not the case here, with donald trump. it was the same with george w. bush and barack obama, as well. but you re right. in terms of wanting to upset the apple cart, they re picking a fight with the mayor of london or they are continuing a fight that really began in 2015, in calling him a loser there. this is a president that sort of can t help but to make things about himself, even though this is a visit that is really about america. it s about the trad
dinner. but we have seen many bigger ones, and what we aren t going to see, which we sometimes do is reviewing of the troops. is a large troop review. basically, what s happening with mr. trump and first lady melania trump is indoors. and that s because they are afraid of protesters, they re afraid of disruption, and they are afraid of people on the streets, the giant trump balloon that went flying during the last visit in windsor. so i think that is the argument that it s going to be all interior as opposed to an exterior visit. and i think that s very important, when we aren t seeing, yes, britons rolling out the red carpet, but it could be bigger and it could be redder. and bianca, let me bring you in, the last time president trump visited the uk, he was greeted with that huge baby trump blimp flown over london. the president, so far, it seems, has avoided seeing protests. so he says, and that s because he s been traveling around london mainly by helicopter back and forth from w
back as the first family inpekted the royal artifacts, just days after president trump said, i didn t know that she was nasty, when told that prince harry s wife, the duchess of sussex, meghan markle, criticized him in 2016. and prince charles hosting the trumps at his home, clarence house, for a proper afternoon tea, despite the fact trump erroneously suggested the prince s cause, climate change, is a chinese hoax. the only hitch in his perfectly coordinated visit coming from trump himself, who fired off two caustic tweets aimed at london s liberal mayor, sadiq khan, just minutes before touching down. attacking him as a stone-cold loser and commenting on his height. and there could be more controversy ahead. trump leaving the door open to meetings that could place him squarely in the middle of the uk s messy domestic politics. just days before theresa may is