Steven F. Hayward, long time contributor to Power Line, writing for the Claremont Institute's The American Mind, considers President Trump's White House lawn speech welcoming King Charles. Hayward finds the speech both masterful and atypically subtle for Trump. Two Trump quotes I deem especially important.
The cause of freedom did not simply appear as an intellectual invention of 1776…. Long before Americans had a nation or a constitution, we first had a culture, a character, and a creed…. Fate drew a long arc from the meadow at Runnymede to the streets of Philadelphia that ran through the lives of people born and bred on the British code “that no man should be denied either justice or right.”
For nearly two centuries before the revolution, this land was settled and forged by men, women who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit of the British. Here on a wild and untamed continent, they set loose the ancient English love of liberty and Great Britain’s distinctive sense of glory, destiny, and pride.
After this fulsome pro-British praise, Trump finished up by lauding Churchill. The implied comparison with current Labour PM Starmer - a wuss and loser - couldn't be more stark.
