It has been announced that President Trump’s forthcoming visit to the UK has been downgraded from a full state visit.
POTUS was invited to meet the Queen at Buckingham Palace by Theresa May earlier in 2017 and has since requested a carriage procession down The Mall amongst other honours. The invitation has caused much consternation amongst the traditionalists in Parliament as the honour of a state visit is usually reserved for Presidents in their second term of office.
In the face of rising objections, a petition against the visit topping a million signatures and the threat of protests during Mr Trump’s time in the UK, his trip has been downgraded from a full state visit to a much more informal affair.
Rather than meeting HMQ, POTUS will be the guest of the US Ambassador and will open a new embassy. The carriage ride down The Mall will be replaced with an Uber from the airport to the embassy and Mr Trump has been asked to provide two passport sized photographs for his senior citizens Oyster card.
The second part of the trip will see the president spend the weekend at the British equivalent of his luxury Florida resort of Mar-A-Lago, Butlin’s Holiday Camp in one of the UK’s top seaside resorts, Bognor Regis.
The golf mad president will be playing in the pro-celebrity Pitch & Putt on the camp’s wonderful 9 hole golf course while his wife Melania judges the Beautiful Baby competition by the pool. POTUS & FLOTUS will then attend a dinner at the 5 crown Toby Carvery where Mr Trump is expected to make a speech to the local Young Farmers Association and the Guild of Honourable Seaweed Weavers.
The First Family is scheduled to make a day trip to Worthing however a planned protest by the Shoreham & District Women’s Institute may result in this fixture being postponed.
Mr Trump had been hoping to visit his ancestral home in Scotland but was told to “Get it up ye!” by the Scottish Tourist Board.
