{"id":417338,"date":"2025-09-12T02:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417338\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T02:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T02:33:16","slug":"how-to-survive-a-trump-state-visit-from-people-whove-been-there-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417338\/","title":{"rendered":"How to survive a Trump state visit \u2014 from people who\u2019ve been there \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Duncan remembered: \u201cThe challenge was to persuade the president that this is a visit of state dignity, not of political comment.\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said that last time a \u201cgreat weapon\u201d had been to say, \u201cOh, please don\u2019t do that, it would upset the queen.\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The powerful aura of the royal family, Duncan said, ensured\u00a0Trump \u201cbehaved faultlessly.\u201d Though now of course Trump\u2019s opposite number is\u00a0the king, who Duncan\u00a0predicts\u00a0\u201cwill handle it brilliantly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Conservative minister told the podcast that it\u2019s when Trump is most enamored with the royal family that\u00a0those in government\u00a0have the\u00a0best chance of making a breakthrough on political matters. \u201cThe hope would be that Trump is enjoying basking in the beauty of it all, and that perhaps you can just say, \u2018Thank you so much for coming, Mr. President, and oh, you\u2019ve been absolutely fantastic, by the way, can you\u2026?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, he\u00a0advised, keep\u00a0the\u00a0demands simple: \u201cDon\u2019t over-ram it. Just see if you can bank something you want to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get Trump one-on-one\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Gavin Barwell was\u00a0May\u2019s\u00a0chief of staff\u00a0during Trump\u2019s previous state visit\u00a0in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duncan remembered: \u201cThe challenge was to persuade the president that this is a visit of state dignity, not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,32,393,92306,4884,1144,14252,712,11655,16,15,1764,98158],"class_list":{"0":"post-417338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-gavin-barwell","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-sadiq-khan","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-theresa-may","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-wales","22":"tag-westminster-insider"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115188990253995027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}