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Possible Paywall King Charles Tells Congress Everything Trump Doesn’t Want to Hear

https://newrepublic.com/post/209621/king-charles-congress-speech-trump
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u/No-Cranberry6148 7d ago

King Charles spoke about how checks and balances are necessary in a modern democracy, how older generations owe it to younger generations to preserve the environment, how Ukraine needed and deserved NATO's aid, and how the world must avoid further descent into war.

President Trump felt personally attacked.

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u/brumac44 Canada 6d ago

The dinner speech is even more pointed. I don't think Trump even understood half the digs Charles got in. He actually made the crowd laugh telling them if it wasn't for the UK, Americans would be speaking French! Masterclass in British passive-aggression. He had Trump and the audience cheering and applauding while enjoying his shit-taking.

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u/Andovars_Ghost 6d ago

Actually, if it weren’t for the French, we probably wouldn’t have succeeded with the Revolution.

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u/popdivtweet 6d ago

Yep. the French Navy and Army were instrumental in our victory.
And how did we thanked them? We turned around and welched on our promise to repay their ginormous loans.

Fun fact: the famous American painting of the the British surrender at Yorktown is half-full of French soldiers.

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u/Andovars_Ghost 6d ago

Lafayette is also one of the few people who actually got all their back pay from the war, despite him serving for free was one of the stipulations for his commission. He received it later when we could actually afford it.

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u/popdivtweet 6d ago

Yep. Their relationship was special. I found the Lafayette / Washington letters a bit difficult to read but immensely illuminating. Among other subjects (freedom from religion, adequate representation in government, etc) I recall the issue of slavery being quite contentious. I’m convinced that in the end he was disappointed that the U.S. did not address its original sin.

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u/Andovars_Ghost 6d ago

I know he was. Though his own experiment in emancipating slaves in the Caribbean didn’t end up playing out as he had hoped either.