{"id":72913,"date":"2026-05-01T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/charles-tamed-trump-while-rebuking-trumpism-in-ego-flattering-masterstroke\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:54:58","slug":"charles-tamed-trump-while-rebuking-trumpism-in-ego-flattering-masterstroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/charles-tamed-trump-while-rebuking-trumpism-in-ego-flattering-masterstroke\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles tamed Trump while rebuking Trumpism in ego-flattering masterstroke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King skillfully appeals to Republicans fond of Britain and Democrats anxious about rules-based order in state visit<\/p>\n<p>For his last trick, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk\/prince-charles\">king<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2026\/apr\/29\/trump-hosts-state-dinner-for-britains-king-charles-and-queen-camilla-video\">revealed<\/a> a bell that hung from the conning tower of a Royal Navy submarine launched from a UK shipyard in 1944. Its name was HMS Trump. \u201cAnd should you ever need to get hold of us,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RapidResponse47\/status\/2049295560000106954?s=20\">Charles III said<\/a>, \u201cwell, just give us a ring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The polished brass bell bearing the name \u201cTrump\u201d, presented at Tuesday\u2019s state dinner at the White House, was an ego-flattering masterstroke that will have prompted groans in foreign capitals from Paris to Canberra to Tokyo. How can they ever hope to match that?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/01\/king-charles-trump-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King skillfully appeals to Republicans fond of Britain and Democrats anxious about rules-based order in state visit For his last trick, the king revealed a bell that hung from the conning tower of a Royal Navy submarine launched from a UK shipyard in 1944. Its name was HMS Trump. \u201cAnd should you ever need to &#8230; <a title=\"Charles tamed Trump while rebuking Trumpism in ego-flattering masterstroke\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/charles-tamed-trump-while-rebuking-trumpism-in-ego-flattering-masterstroke\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Charles tamed Trump while rebuking Trumpism in ego-flattering masterstroke\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}