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Geoff Russ: Royal visit a timely reminder of America's British roots

Trump praises the 'small but mighty kingdom from across the sea' that provided the U.S. with its founding democratic institutions, culture

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King Charles III made America sound older than 250 during his visit this week to Washington, D.C., in advance of the semiquincentennial anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence on July 4. In his speech to Congress on Tuesday, His Majesty joked that Britain and America shared everything but language. President Donald Trump replied with his own banter and royal compliments during a state dinner that evening.

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More notably, in a speech welcoming the King and Queen Camilla earlier in the day, Trump praised the “small but mighty kingdom from across the sea” that bequeathed to America, among other strengths, its Anglo-Saxon courage. Intentional or not, it was a high-profile rebuttal of the notion that the United States is an abstract “melting pot” and a nation of propositional “ideas.”

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