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Raymond J. de Souza: Charles cheerfully dispatches Team Trump

The best moments of the King's speeches were likely lost on their targets, but not on the watching world

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A sovereign is required to be subtle, and today’s Washington is singularly ill-suited to subtlety or self-awareness. Thus the best moments of King Charles III’s visit were likely lost on their targets, but not on the watching world. Rarely has the King had to deliver a speech in such sensitive circumstances, and it was a superlatively smashing success.

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For the third time this year, a world leader has punctured the preening presumptions of President Donald Trump, to extravagant laudations from the vast majority of the global population. Prime Minister Mark Carney went first at Davos on trade, and then Pope Leo XIV was next on war and peace, adding for good effect, “I don’t fear the Trump administration.”

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Fewer fear Trump now than a year ago. The King certainly doesn’t.

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