Hello and welcome to Coffee House. I'm James Heel. And I'm Tim Shipp.

So Tim, the King's going to be in America this week, obviously coming just days after the attempted

assassination of Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Well, we're in the wrong place, aren't we? And all the whole British press pack has been

Washington, D.C., half of them a bit, the White

House Correspondents' Dinner.

Yes.

And that huge drama of shootings.

But actually, I think this might be the best thing that's happened to this state visit.

It enabled the palace and Downing Street to sort of come out and express sympathy with

President Trump.

It's allowed Trump to come out and say,

ah, very brave of the king still to come.

And there was no question of this trip being cancelled.

But I think it's created a sort of slight sense of good mood.

It allowed Stama to phone up Trump and say, you know, sorry about yet another assassination attempt, Mr President.

We might have had our differences, but they don't go that far.

Yes, I did very much enjoy Trump comparing himself to Lincoln in terms of only the best presidents get multiple assassination attempts.

Well, there are we go.

And, of course, there's a bit of history here, which is 1976 when the Queen, the late Queen visited just after Ford's assassination attempt. And I think, yeah, obviously given all the tensions we've seen around the Falcons most recently, but also other different flashpoints such as Ukraine and Iran most noticeably, that could potentially be something which affects Trump's move in the whole tenor of the trip. We've seen reports of Christian Turner, the UK ambassador, saying keep calm and carry on to staff at the embassy. That's going to very much be the tenor. And that's not just his approach. He's saying, that's what the king was. Absolutely. This is what the royals do. Keep calm and carry on. Even under fire. And so I think that it's going to be something that helps. And also, I remember 2024, I was at the Republican National Convention.

And Trump was very much moved by that assassination attempt. And he spoke for 92 minutes, I think. You know, he really was sort of grateful to be that. And obviously, he's always going to be the same bombastic personality. But I even think something like this, another brush with death, is going to be something that affects him. Yeah. And he sort of seems to be a bit obsessed with death.

I've heard from these previous conversations that Stama had with Trump, that there's a

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