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Giles Coren Has No Idea

Trump Takes the Rail Replacement

Giles Coren Has No Idea

The Times

News & Politics, Unknown, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump has been honoured with a second state visit to the UK. He had a stay at Windsor castle, met Esther’s sister and took a trip to Chequers. But what would have given him a more realistic reflection of Great Britain? Join a queue, attend A&E, get stuck in a traffic jam…?

In his column last week, Giles incurred the wrath of Times readers…again. He wrote about the inflated guesstimates of the numbers attending the Tommy Robinson march. Confused as to why readers are so annoyed, he wonders if he is still in tune with the average reader?

After the break, a tribute to Hollywood great Robert Redford and who will win this year’s booker prize?


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Households to reduce their weekday peak electricity usage by 50% can earn up to 16 hours of free electricity per week. Full details, eligibility and teas and teas. Visit edfenergy.com forward slash r-hapenpower. Right, so Donald Trump is here. He is in London. He is not in Kentish Town. Thank God. So if we hear the what-w-wop of the chopper blades passing over,

1:14.5

Neil will want us to reference it because it'll mess with the sound.

1:17.9

I think I've heard him this week, but do they send out... What you heard, earlier in this week there were a pair of chinooks.

1:21.5

Saw him.

1:22.2

Yeah, of course. It's very exciting when a chinet comes over, one or two.

1:25.6

But yes, he is here, and my sister, who is still the Lady Marress of London, will I think be hosting them at some sort of state banquet. But, you know, I really should have sucked up to my sister more this year because I would have been quite, it would have been quite funded. The most boring thing in the world. What? With all those like, state banquet. Yeah, the CIA Secret Service around. Then you don't see them. Americans. You just... Really uncomfortable, rented suit. I just... Boring people. The wives of boring people. Well, I'm the child of the 80s and I still think Americans are glamorous. So you're excited by Trump's visit. No, I'm not. Don't make that face at me. I'm not excited by Trump's visit. Oh, Mr. President.

2:05.7

Why has he come, do you think? Why do you think he's come? No, I'm asking you. I'm asking you.

2:10.0

Well, I care about your opinion. What do you think? I want to know a woman's opinion.

2:14.1

He's come because literally, literally, he wants to do a photo opportunity with the king. That's it. Do you think he's that basic? Yes. Why is he's not? No one's even going to notice whether he meets Keer Stama. Okay. Kirstarmer is finished. So there's nothing that the visit can be. He is sort of a shadow of a... He's finished. It's next time. Trump's going to have another one under Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

2:35.7

But Trump is going to have another one under Prime Minister, Andy Burnham.

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