We've bent over backwards to give Trump the royal treatment, so why not bung him the NHS as well?
That was a lost opportunity for our monarchy. The royal family would have become more popular than at any time since the defeat of the Spanish Armada – if only the Queen had covered Donald Trump in milkshake. At the very least, they could have insisted his car in the motorcade be driven by Prince Philip.
Maybe her advisors were against it, for the same reason he was invited on a state visit in the first place: that it doesn’t matter what we think of the president, he’s the leader of America so we have to deal with him.
This is a fair point, although you also have to deal with your energy supplier, and you don’t invite them to stay in a four-poster bed in your mum’s spare room and give the board of EDF a sodding banquet.
Still, it seemed to work because in return for this generosity, he behaved impeccably, taking the trouble to address the mayor of London as a “stone-cold loser”.
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/donald-trump-uk-state-visit-brexit-nhs-woody-johnson-d-day-a8947791.html
