What does Trump want from his state visit?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump touches down in Britain next week for his state visit and political editor Tim Shipman has the inside scoop on how No. 10 is preparing. Keir Starmer’s aides are braced for turbulence; ‘the one thing about Trump which is entirely predictable is his unpredictability,’ one ventures. Government figures fear he may go off message on broadcast – he is scheduled to be interviewed by GB News.
A second state visit, especially during a second term, is unprecedented. But, as Tim says, ‘Britishness is fashionable in Washington’ and no-one likes ‘royal treatment’ more than Trump. So, can Starmer take advantage of the President’s ‘love of the deal’?
Tim joins Will Moore and Lara Prendergast, the Spectator's features and executive editors respectively, in a conversation recorded originally for the Edition podcast. For more from the Spectator, search 'The Edition' wherever you subscribe to your podcasts.
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| 0:44.2 | Hello and welcome to this special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily |
| 0:48.7 | Politics Podcast. In his cover article for The Spectator this week, our political editor, Tim |
| 0:54.0 | Shipman, looks ahead |
| 0:55.0 | to the state visit of President Trump to the UK next week. Tim sat down with Will Moore and |
| 1:00.6 | Lara Prendergars, our features and executive editors, to discuss what Trump wants from the visit. |
| 1:06.1 | And this conversation was recorded originally for our edition podcast. Search for the edition, |
| 1:10.7 | wherever you get your |
| 1:11.3 | podcasts, but we hope you enjoy it. So, Tim, the word that everyone is using about this state visit |
| 1:18.1 | is that it's unprecedented, because it's a second state visit for a second term president. So if it is |
| 1:24.7 | unprecedented, how has Trump managed to get it? |
| 1:28.2 | Well, because the British government is desperate to butter up Donald Trump |
| 1:32.2 | and has been, from the second he got re-elected, |
| 1:35.3 | you know, he's completely recasting, you know, |
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