In mid-September, President Trump has been invited to England for what's being called an 'unprecedented' second state visit. Officially, he and First Lady Melania will be hosted by King Charles and Queen Camilla at Windsor Castle.
What's causing a bit of a kerfluffle is that this Trump state visit won't really have any public events, particularly the always august occasion of when an American president is invited to address a joint session of Parliament, as the French president recently did.
Trump’s UK state visit schedule avoids possibility of him addressing parliament
US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump will travel to the United Kingdom in September for an “unprecedented” second state visit at the invitation of King Charles, which is unlikely to have any public-facing events.The visit is scheduled for September 17-19, the palace announced Sunday, coinciding with a recess in the House of Commons. That removes the possibility of Trump addressing a joint session of parliament – a prospect that some MPs had urged the Speaker of the House to refuse.
King Charles will host Trump at Windsor Castle, about an hour from central London, the palace said in a statement. The usual venue for state visits, Buckingham Palace, is undergoing significant renovations this year.
Windsor was also the site of French President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit last week, before Macron traveled to London to attend a summit at Downing Street and deliver a speech to parliament.
According to CNN, if a president is in their second term and they travel to the UK, they normally are invited to the palace for lunch or tea, so to have Trump receive an invite for a royal stay has eyebrows raised. But it turns out that King Charles has a soft spot in his heart for the brash American businessman turned chief executive.
Who knew? That's kinda nice.
...But the “unprecedented” offer was extended on the king’s behalf by Prime Minister Keir Starmer during his trip to the White House earlier this year, which Trump enthusiastically accepted. A formal invitation was then sent in June, but the two leaders were unable to meet during the summer due to scheduling conflicts.
...“His Majesty has known President Trump for many years and looks forward to hosting him and the First Lady later this year,” a palace aide told CNN in June.
(I hope Jill Biden reads that with teeth clenched.) (*snicker*)
However much Charles might appreciate Trump the man, there are still times his unfiltered brusqueness irritates the tightly wound British. Witness this recent Trump jaunt to his golf club in Scotland, where he met with effete and besieged British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The president leveled one of his off-the-cuff assessments at one of Starmer's major Achilles tendons while answering a shouted question from a reporter.
Rumor had it that Charles was 'appalled.'
King Charles is allegedly "very concerned" that US President Donald Trump could launch into a massive rant about immigration during his second state visit to the UK in September, a source has claimed. It comes shortly after the US president sent Prime Minister Keir Starmer "advice" about the ongoing small boat crisis.
While on a private visit to Scotland, Mr Trump warned the Prime Minister that those coming across on dinghies are "bad people", but praised efforts to end crossings. Meanwhile, after arriving in Scotland on Friday, the US politician made headlines after he declared that illegal migration is a "horrible invasion" that is "killing Europe".
Now, civil servants have issued warnings that he could break protocol and make politicised comments during his visit to England in a few weeks.
Imagine Trump breaking 'protocol.'
HARUMPH
The truth is the truth hurts.
Whether or not Charles was truly appalled remains to be seen, as that sort of report is always gossipy British tabloid fodder.
What is true is that Starmer hasn't invited Trump to speak to Parliament, where he could easily shift the body's schedule to accommodate an event.
Donald Trump is the most pro-British American president of the modern era. He should be invited to address Parliament during his UK State Visit.
— Nile Gardiner (@NileGardiner) August 7, 2025
My latest for @Telegraph https://t.co/PNYgLTOddn
Why hasn't he?
Well, watchers have a sneaking suspicion it's because the PM is frightened to death. Not just of Trump's forthrightness exposing his impotent incompetence, but of his own Labour MPs being rude and unruly hooligans if they have Trump in front of them.
Starmer is not the guy needed to keep his minions under control.
How embarrassing is that?
...Strikingly, the Commons rises on Sept 16, the day before the state visit begins. The timing may well have been dictated by Downing Street officials nervous over opposition to Trump within the Labour Party, including on its own backbenches and likely within the Cabinet itself.
This is both an insult and a strategically stupid move at a time when the United States and the United Kingdom must collaborate on a range of issues, from strengthening Nato and advancing trade to ending Iran’s nuclear programme. An address by President Trump to Parliament would help cement the most powerful bilateral partnership of modern times, while reinforcing the huge importance of the transatlantic alliance to both nations.
I suspect that Sir Keir Starmer is terrified that some members of his own party would treat the Leader of the Free World disrespectfully at any address to Parliament. Labour MPs can be exceptionally rude and ill-mannered in the Commons, and any boorish behaviour would be greatly embarrassing to the Prime Minister, who appears to be rapidly losing control.
So the mewling, milque-toast Starmer, who, from the safety of Whitehall, is so willing to stomp all over regular Britons' rights and freedoms whilst calling them hooligans and thugs, can't even contain the baser instincts of his own gang of Labour delinquents in the chambers of government.
What a joke.
This is the head of the authoritarian government that will literally send the police to your door for attending a protest to remind you 'how to behave.'
LITERALLY
This is INSANE. Warwickshire thought police visit someone who's attending the protest in Nuneaton to advise them on *how to behave*.
— Lee Harris (@addicted2newz) August 8, 2025
The police officer is visibly embarrassed, but listen to the guys response:
"We will no longer be silenced!"
Well said!pic.twitter.com/KyLTDtisAH
Yet the leader of Labour cannot wrangle decent behavior out of the privileged members of his own party for one, single, formal government function as their tender progressive sensibilities could be triggered by the BAD ORANGE CRANKY YANK.
...Disruptive scenes during Trump’s state visit could be highly damaging to Starmer’s own position as Labour leader, and might well raise serious questions over his ability to continue as PM. If Sir Keir cannot trust his own MPs to treat the US president with dignity and respect, it would be a damning indictment of his party and his own leadership.
There is also the issue of deep-seated, nasty anti-Trump sentiment within Starmer’s own Cabinet. You can imagine the howls of protest from the upper echelons of the Labour administration when the idea of a Trump speech to Parliament was discussed. This is the most Left-wing government in modern British history, and many within it are no doubt horrified by the prospect of an American president defending the idea of secure borders, national sovereignty, the deportation of illegal migrants, and the protection of freedom of speech at the very heart of Westminster.
How utterly mortifying.
As for a damning indictment of Starmer's leadership, it only took about the first half hour of Trump's arrival in Scotland to start laying waste to that carefully constructed and ruthlessly guarded sand castle. Everyday Brits were glued to the TV and they liked what they saw, and stammering Starmer's squirming most of all.
So there could well be another reason besides an appalling breach in protocol that they're going to try to keep as tight a lid on Trump as possible while he's there.
The British government is already enough of a trainwreck.
In a few pithy asides, Trump could yank the tracks right out from underneath them.
