What will the King's visit really achieve with Trump?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 27 April 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Trump has praised King Charles for pressing on with his US state visit in the wake of Saturday night's shooting, calling him ‘brave’. The President’s comments have thrust the King back into the diplomatic spotlight.
With tensions between the UK and the US compounding, it seems that Keir Starmer has deployed the King as a literal trump card. So can the King make any difference for the ‘special relationship’?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK commercial banking, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.1 | This is a global player original podcast. Is there a chance in hell that the law is going to change |
| 0:16.8 | as a result of this latest episode? Not a cat's chance. With sort of coverage in the US press, |
| 0:22.7 | like, this is not who America is. |
| 0:24.5 | It's like, I don't know how to tell you this America. |
| 0:27.3 | If you're a Brit, this is exactly who we think you are. |
| 0:30.4 | There was someone there who intended to kill the president. |
| 0:34.3 | And this idea that, you know, political violence has no place in America. Wake the |
| 0:39.5 | fuck up. And I'm afraid America, it's your same old story of too many guns and too many people |
| 0:48.1 | who will resort to violence when anything else fails. The king is coming here, King of England. |
| 0:55.0 | I think it's great. He'll be very safe, yeah. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.0 | And will your events be able to go forward? |
| 1:00.0 | No concerns about security going forward? |
| 1:03.0 | The White House grounds are really safe. |
| 1:05.0 | This area of not very many acres, it's really safe. And he'll be staying here. Now I believe he's going to a couple of |
| 1:15.2 | other locations because he's here for a few days. He's a great guy. Oh, they called and they are so |
| 1:22.1 | looking forward to being here. So looking forward to being here. Well, up to a point they are. They've got a job to do with the so-called special relationship in such a parlous state. But looking forward to it, I think there's a sort of dread and anticipation of what could go wrong. Will the king manage to reset the political relationship between Stama and Trump, |
| 1:47.1 | or has he actually got his sights on something much bigger? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:57.3 | The Newsagents. It's John. |
| 2:01.5 | It's meatless. |
| 2:02.4 | And the King's Plain will be touching down at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, and there'll be a motorcade, |
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