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Morning Glory

The Donald dines

Morning Glory

Ricky Freelove

News, Labour, Government, Current Affairs, British News, Politics, Immigration, Talk, Phone In, Daily News, News Commentary, Reform Uk, Conservatives, Debate, Uk News, Speech Radio, Unknown, News & Politics

4.4741 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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1:08.9

this morning, Ream. I came out of the house thinking it's going to be cool and cold. It looks a bit wet and damp. You know, it came out, it's kind of warm. It feels like that sort of hurricane weather in Florida. It does. It also feels quite humid as well. That's what I mean, yeah. Yeah, it's... I hate that word. I hate that word. Yeah, well, it's quite a descriptive word. but sometimes there is nothing else that you can say. say but so I don't know if you were able to watch it all last night the state visit

1:31.3

great pageantry yesterday in Windsor and you know of course

1:34.3

the thing that I found really funny was we were watching it here yesterday afternoon

1:38.3

and the BBC had to have a sort of cut out corner of the protesters in London

1:43.3

while they were showing what was going on in Windsor.

1:46.0

And it's like, why are you doing that? It's a rag-tag bunch of a few hundred people, hardly anybody at all. But they have to make the point that, you know, there are lots of people here that don't like Donald Trump. There are people that are here that are against them, right, and they're against the state visit. I mean, that's the point. And there was also a couple of members of Parliament I saw that were talking about, you know, the disruption that are going to be caused as a result of the state visit. I mean, calm on. Get a grip. I mean, it's wonderful that Trump has visited the UK twice now since he's become president. It's a huge, huge earmark. I mean, look, there is so much that we can learn from the United States and what they've been up to.

2:17.7

I was in D.C. last week, speaking to some of the think tanks out there, hearing about how they've been able to talk to the Trump administration and what they're up to over there.

2:25.8

But it's hugely significant and it's really, really important that we welcome President Trump and we welcome the Americans with open arms because they seem to be getting a lot of

2:34.3

things right, at least in comparison to the absolute mayhem that we're facing here. But it's also

2:39.9

just symbolism. While you were away, the government has collapsed even further than it's a bin that

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