Presidents, they come and go. Who cares?

Charles was able to go, I'm the king.

I have this entirely unique kind of power and celebrity that Donald Trump responded really well to.

And Donald Trump enjoyed, I think, rolling out the red carpet for him.

I'm Joanna Coles. This is the Daily Beast podcast and what a historic week we have seen for King Charles coming with the weight of the world, the Western world, the free world on his shoulders, dispatched by the British government to ensure that the special relationship between the UK and the US remains intact.

And ergo NATO remains intact. He came amid all sorts of speculation that this was a terrible

waste of his time, that he was going to be mocked and used as Donald Trump's stooge.

And in fact, so far, and we're recording this on Wednesday morning,

the day after he made two stellar speeches, the visit could not have gone better. Both men,

the president and the king appear to have got on very well. King Charles' speech managed to unify the House or unify the House,

as Melania might say. But what a moment when you saw repeated standing ovations in the House of

Congress from both sides of the House, not something we've seen for a long time. And I will say

it gave me a real, it gave me a

jolt of optimism that we will get through what feels like sometimes a very dark time in America.

Anyway, who better to discuss this with than Tom Sykes, who is the royalist and has been the

royal correspondent for The Daily Beast

for many, many years. No one has better information than Tom. But before we talk to him,

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Sykes about what was going on in that speech. And then, of course, even more interestingly,

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