Queen to offer teetotal Trump red, white, and dessert wine, champagne, and port

The centerpiece of President Trump's state visit to the United Kingdom will be a Monday night Buckingham Palace banquet in which he will be treated to the very best of British etiquette - and offered a lot of alcohol. Guests will eat with silver gilt cutlery from the famed Grand Service, which was commissioned by George IV in 1806. It was made from gilt that today would be worth more than $5 million and comprises more than 4,000 items, including ice buckets. That level of intricacy does not come easily. It takes royal staff three days to set the U-shaped table. Each place setting requires six glasses - running from water, white wine and red wine all the way through to champagne, dessert wine and port. Trump, whose brother Fred Jr. was an alcoholic who died at age 43 in 1981, is a lifelong teetotaler who has said he has never even tasted a beer. U.S. and British officials described the banquet as the highlight of President Trump's three-day state visit.

While differences over everything from Huawei to Iran, not to mention Trump's dabbling in British politics in the run-up to his arrival, could threaten harmony during his meetings with Theresa May - who has her own problems with Brexit and her imminent departure - both sides have played up the pomp and circumstance that comes with a formal state visit.

Staff use a wooden ruler to ensure each diner is exactly 18 inches from the next. Each of the chairs is set exactly the same distance from the table. And the napkins are folded into the shape of a Dutch bonnet.

The menu is selected by the Queen herself, who picks from three versions offered by her chefs. Guests will enter in procession led by the Lord Chamberlain — the official in charge of the royal household — followed by the Queen and Mr Trump.

They are both expected to make speeches. However the 170-strong guest list has made headlines for the names that won’t be attending rather than those who will be present. Jeremy Corbyn, the hard left leader of the Labour Party, is boycotting the event along with Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London who has clashed repeatedly with Trump and on Sunday said the U.K. should not be rolling out the red carpet for a state visit.

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'Bare minimum': Britain decides no palace stay or parliamentary speech for Trump in low-key state visit

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Trump to Britain: Send Farage to negotiate Brexit

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Dan Crenshaw: 'Activist' judges preventing Trump from securing border

Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, accused the American judicial system Monday of impeding President Trump from making good on his signature campaign promises relative to immigration. “The judicial system is really taking an activist role in preventing Trump from implementing his agenda,” Crenshaw said during an appearance on "Fox and Friends." “We’re dealing with somebody … another side of the party that does not want to see a solution here.”

Several Obama-appointed federal judges have ruled against Trump’s immigration policies such as restrictions on green card holders and the exile of migrants awaiting court hearings. During the 2016 campaign and since, Trump vowed to stop the “human carnage” caused by illegal immigration and “build a wall” between the United States and Mexico to make it happen. Democrats, especially those running for president in 2020, have seized on Trump’s homeland security strategy, characterizing it as racist and cruel. “We must end the dehumanization of immigrants and develop a humane policy for those at the border who seek asylum,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., tweeted last week. “This is inhumane. It must stop NOW.”

Crenshaw, a freshman congressman from the largest state along the southern border, says liberals like Sanders are purposefully stalling on immigration reform and using it as a cudgel for Trump and Republicans. “Look at Bernie’s tweet, he didn’t note any solutions, not one,” Crenshaw said. “He’s virtue signaling. They’re virtue signaling because they actually want this crisis to keep going so they can keep campaigning about. And they won’t listen to actual solutions.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham earlier this month introduced legislation aimed at curbing the flow of migrants toward the southern border. Trump praised Graham’s legislation during an announcement of his new plan to overhaul the American immigration system that includes a “merit-based” standard for entry into the country. Republicans like Crenshaw have echoed Trump’s claim that more attention to legal immigration will make the process more fair for everyone. "We must implement an immigration system that will allow our citizens to prosper for generations to come," Trump said. “A big proportion of those immigrants should come in through merit and skill."

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>>6660863

They will criticize anything they can, because of the hate they have for him, just because they can, problem is it only shows the world more about who they are and what they are really about than anything else.

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>>6661032

Until he shows us more at this point, I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, in that he was green to the whole political system, despite previous statements. People make wrong judgements based on many things until their eyes are opened to the truth.

>>6661076

Indeed, and one that needed to be done…message "Who do you think your fooling" kek!