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    Trump is all insults and gripes on European trip — until he meets the queen

    by WRITETHRU (EDITORS: Updates and adds information throughout.), Los Angeles Times Jun 03, 2019 6 minutes

    LONDON - President Donald Trump did not act like a man about to be honored by the queen - until he came face to face with the 93-year-old British monarch Monday afternoon.

    For three hours between his morning arrival at Stanstead Airport and a formal welcoming ceremony just after noon, Trump set a cantankerous tone for his five-day European trip, tweeting out a series of attacks and complaints.

    In a city and country where he is already deeply unpopular, the president at times personified a familiar stereotype: the rude American abroad.

    Trump was, by contrast, gracious in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II, whom he praised as the embodiment of "duty and patriotism." But even in Buckingham Palace, the toasts at the evening's State Dinner carried an unmistakable hint of tension into the gilded Banquet Hall.

    Days away from the 75th anniversary of D-day, both the president and the queen lauded the shared history of the Allies' victory. And they praised shared values. But their points of emphasis noticeably differed.

    Trump emphasized "freedom, sovereignty, self-determination

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