Posted originally on CTH on September 17, 2025 | Sundance

According to the Daily Mail [Full Details Here], the Prince and Princess of Wales were deployed, at the start of the royal charm offensive, to greet the Trumps in the Walled Garden on the Windsor Estate when the Marine One helicopter arrived – with Mr. Trump telling Kate: ‘You’re beautiful’, according to a lip reader.

In one of a number of flourishes being added to the American leader’s trip, the helicopter landed on the lawn of the garden nestled in the private Home Park.

William and Kate welcomed the Trumps and walked a short distance with them to meet King Charles III and Queen Camilla outside Victoria House to launch the trip.

In total, around 120 horses and 1,300 members of the British military were involved in the ceremonial welcome at Windsor, with 160 personnel from the Royal Marines and Royal Navy, 1,000 from the British Army and 140 from the Royal Air Force.

This is well in excess of the 850 who took part in French President Emmanuel Macron’s state visit in July.

The Trumps joined the King and Queen and William and Kate for a carriage procession through the Windsor Estate towards the castle.

Eighty soldiers from the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment formed the Sovereign’s Escort travelling with the carriages, with the Life Guards dressed in their red tunics and white plumed helmets and Blues and Royals in their blue tunics and red plumes.  (READ MORE)

Posted originally on CTH on September 16, 2025 | Sundance

President Trump is departing the White House heading to Great Britain for a state visit with King Charles.  As he departs President Trump talks to the media about current events and answers questions from the assembled press pool. WATCH:

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Posted originally on CTH on September 13, 2025 | Sundance

In a brutally honest Truth Social post today, President Trump calls out the EU/NATO nations to stop buying Russian energy products if they want him to lead the imposition of stronger sanctions against Russia.

The “coalition of the willing” has been openly and privately applying public pressure upon President Trump to push stronger sanctions against Russia.  However, at the same time the EU/NATO are making these demands, they are also purchasing Russian energy products as delivered through third parties.

So today, President Trump posts this:

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A non-diplomatic way of saying, ‘put up or shut up.’

Those of you who understand business terms can well understand “making the monkey jump.”  President Trump is not taking their monkey.

This is a direct response to the public statements being made by EU/NATO leadership, who are -by design- trying to put the responsibility onto President Trump, and defer all their own culpability in the process.

This is similar to the approach President Trump took in 2018 when he very publicly called out German Chancellor Angela Merkel for continuing the Nordstream II Pipeline deal with Russia while simultaneously expecting President Trump to fortify NATO against Russia.

In this exchange, President Trump was in Brussels, Belgium for the start of the annual NATO summit.

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President Trump knows the EU/NATO will not do it.

The French govt has just collapsed.  The EU voted no confidence in Ursula von der Leyen.  The German economy is contracting.  The U.K is facing a financial crisis.  Moldova is facing a very sketchy election this month. The Canadian economy is contracting, etc etc.

The last thing the EU/NATO want to do going into the winter is make their energy prices skyrocket.

Trump well understands the leverage point right now.