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[DemocratSinceBirth]

Link to tweet

[patricia92243]

1. How nice. I didn't know this. Thanks for posting.

[Tetrachloride]

2. the text for non Twitter readers

Although many presidents met with Queen Elizabeth, Barack Obama was the only President invited by the Queen to return after he left office. She reportedly regarded him as a pillar of integrity - a man of stability, decency, and rectitude.

[calimary]

11. "...invited by the Queen"

So noted.

[Shar blue]

3. I'd say

she was a very good judge of character.

[jaxexpat]

6. Well, that could be because she'd dealt with some REAL characters.

From Winston to Tony" the poodle" Blair and a conversation or two with Marge, she's seen the gambit of many English speaking leaders in all their diversity.

[spanone]

4. Wish we could hear her private comments on the slobfather

[niyad]

7. We saw her face. And charles' finger.

[Farmer-Rick]

10. Charles Finger?

I googled it but all I got was the writer.

What's Charles Finger?

[MsLeopard]

14. I think it's about this

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217135904

[niyad]

15. Thetecwas a video posted here yesterday from when the orange TRAITOR**

was in Great Britain, annoying everyone with his crass and boorish behaviour. At one point, you see charles lift his middle finger, ostensibly to touch his forehead.

I used to do it in meetings, "adjusting" my glasses. A trick taught to me by a mayor.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. Yes he is.

[wnylib]

8. She might have privately considered him to be

sort of British since his father was Kenyan and his mother descended from early British colonists in America.

And he exemplified the qualities of integrity, responsibility, and public service, as well as being a compassionate and sincere human being. Who wouldn't try to claim him as at least almost their own?

[Danascot]

9. The Queen wore a brooch

given to her by the Obamas when she met with Trump.

I think I saw that on DU but I can't find it atm.

[Farmer-Rick]

13. Here you go...though it's the NY post

"As thousands of people demonstrated against President Trump in the UK, Queen Elizabeth II seemed to make a statement of her own by wearing a brooch given as a gift by former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama.

The Queen donned the American-made, 14-karat yellow gold flower pin during an audience at Windsor Castle the day Trump and the first lady landed in Britain, according to multiple reports."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/nypost.com/2018/07/18/queen-elizabeth-wore-gift-from-obama-during-trump-meeting/amp/

[question everything]

12. Would have been nice to post directly, not thru twits

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. To whom are you complaining?

Jesus Christ. Seriously?!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

34. How would I have known how the Queen felt without the tweet?

[patphil]

16. Obama was a good President, and a good ambassador for the Nation.

He was respected by leaders the world over; as opposed to his successor, who was at best an arrogant asshole.
Look down a couple tweets and you'll see him snubbing the Queen. He looks like he's waiting for a bus; one that will take him anyplace other than with the Queen of England.

[peppertree]

17. And Cheeto? She called him the 'pig in a tuxedo'

She always had a great eye for people.

[BlackSkimmer]

24. She did?

I never heard oh her insulting anyone in that way.

She may well have felt it, but saying it seems unlikely.

[peppertree]

25. That's how she reportedly referred to him - privately, of course

You're right: she'd never say that within earshot of the press (least of all in Britain!).

But privately, as you know, she was well-known for her sassy sense of humor.

And here, she was spot on.

Oink!



Grunt, grunt

[trusty elf]

33. another one...

[peppertree]

38. I bet she had ask her staff to count the silverware

For many years it was well known that her least favorite foreign couple were the Ceausescus.

Then Cheeto and Melanus came along.

[JHB]

35. Well, maybe one word within earshot

[peppertree]

39. One of a number of choice words she had for him, I'm sure

"This is worse than the time we had to host Mobutu," she probably told friends. "At least he was funny."

[Evolve Dammit]

18. Great pic and very noteworthy. Thanks

[betsuni]

19. K&R

[Blue Owl]

20. I agree with her 100%

Love Barack!

[Joinfortmill]

21. And she was correct.

[dchill]

22. That speaks well of her.

[Tarheel_Dem]

23. Is there any wonder why she's admired and respected the world over?

[Skittles]

26. I would describe President Carter the same

yup

[Deuxcents]

27. Yup.

[WarGamer]

28. A true one of a kind...

Best POTUS of my lifetime.

[Rabrrrrrr]

30. I think what killed her was the US fought a revolution against England, for freedom and shit,

and then, 240 years later, elected a shitpot dictator wannabe who didn't have a tenth of the intelligence needed to be one...

I can only imagine the health damage to someone on the British throne having to see the Colonies so soundly reject everything the founding fathers (rebels) fought for.

"Really? You fought a war against the greatest empire the world has ever seen AND WON, and you voted for a POS stain who wants to install fascism and pretend that freedom equals servitude?"

And that's coming from a monarch who's the proud heir of 500 years of colonizing violence and anti-human atrocities.

[CentralMass]

36. What killed her was 96 years of living.

[PatrickforB]

31. She regarded Obama as this kind of man, because he is!

A good, moral man for sure.

That wasn't good enough for our racists, though. Because after O, we had to have Trump. Makes me sick.

[Roy Rolling]

32. Obama is on the Queen's A-List 😜

[CentralMass]

37. Who knew they could stack it that high.