In the VENN diagram of royalists, MAGA Americans, ultra-conservative British political commentators and tabloid hacks, there’s a TON of overlap. You would think that all of those groups would be pleased as punch with King Charles and Camilla’s “successful” US state visit. The king and queen did not face significant protests, the Jeffrey Epstein issue was a relatively minor blip, the state dinner was tacky AF but there was no major incident, and Donald and Melania Trump didn’t malfunction too badly. Just call it a win and keep it moving, right? So tell me why that overlapping VENN diagram has spent the past 24 hours glitching out about Prince Harry and Meghan? Why are British ultra-conservative commentators huffing about “this shows why Harry was wrong to leave” and “Meghan is so jealous she couldn’t be part of this!” Why is today’s Daily Mail cover focused on what Donald Trump said about Harry and Meghan? It’s true- Robert Hardman got a private audience with Trump in the Oval Office, and the Mail turned Trump’s offhand comment about Harry and Meghan into their big headline. Pitiful.
It’s late in the day and I am the last visitor on the President’s schedule. But he is in exuberant form, clearly buoyed by the success of this week’s state visit of the King and Queen who will be saying farewell in the morning. ‘We’ve done a good job with the King, right?’ he says. I reply that the British team seem overjoyed by the success of this trip.
‘He’s a great guy, he really is,’ he says, adding warm tributes to the Prince and Princess of Wales. He is less complimentary about the Sussexes.
… Talk turns to his fondness for his royal visitors and he checks his schedule for the official departure the following day when the King and Queen will head on to Virginia and thence back over the Atlantic.
‘It’s been unbelievable,’ he reflects, before asking after the Prince and Princess of Wales.
‘William, he’ll be a good King, won’t he?’ he says. ‘He’s very nice. A great guy. I like him.’
I observe that one of the Prince’s key priorities is not just his role as heir to the Throne but that of ensuring the next royal generation want to embrace their destiny. ‘The kids are good kids, right?’ he nods.
‘So can Harry make a comeback?’ he asks. I say that any return to the royal fold is looking highly unlikely.
‘Too many things, I guess,’ he sighs. ‘That wife of his. Boy, what she’s done to that guy.’
I say that the couple were clearly unhappy with the royal hierarchy. ‘I guess she got blocked out by William’s wife,’ the President continued, as he reflected on the ‘perfect’ performance of the Princess of Wales.
‘How’s she doing? She’s so great. She was sick, people said crazy things about her and she was so brave.’
I don’t like to admit this, but every now and then, Trump’s dementia-addled mind accidentally spits out one truth in a cavalcade of lies and racism. “I guess she got blocked out by William’s wife.” Woof. Kate, like Camilla, is another snake in the grass and even dipsh-t Trump knows that. Beyond that, Trump just enjoys royal gossip. He’s always been into royal gossip – you should hear what he used to say about Charles and Diana in the 1990s. Anyway, curious that the Mail put “That wife of his” on their cover and not Trump praising The Other Brother.
The King had a wonderful visit to the US, Trump was on best behaviour. The author of this piece, Robert Hardman, has just received a ringing endorsement for his book from Trump.
That book, incidentally, celebrates Elizabeth II.
But this is their headline.
Utterly deranged. pic.twitter.com/DCdC88x1iv
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- US President Donald Trump and Britain’s King Charles III along with First Lady Melania Trump and Queen Camilla walk to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 28, 2026.,Image: 1095066914, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: HENRY NICHOLLS/Avalon
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- United States President Donald J Trump and first lady Melania Trump host a Farewell with King Charles III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Queen Camilla on the South Portico of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, on Thursday, April 30, 2026. From left to right: Queen Camilla, King Charles III, President Trump, Melania Trump. Copyright: xAaronxSchwartzx/,Image: 1095447157, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: imago is entitled to issue a simple usage license at the time of provision. Personality and trademark rights as well as copyright laws regarding art-works shown must be observed. Commercial use at your own risk., Model Release: no, Credit line: IMAGO/Aaron Schwartz / Pool via CNP /MediaPunch/Avalon
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex listen to a music class during a visit to the QuestScope Youth Center at the Za’atari refugee camp, home to displaced Syrians, near Mafraq in northern Jordan. Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Mafraq, Jordan When: 25 Feb 2026 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex attend a World Health Organisation roundtable with key donors and humanitarian partners in Amman, Jordan. Featuring: Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex Where: Amman, Jordan When: 25 Feb 2026 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex visit the World Central Kitchen Food (WCK), at the Jordan Country Office, in Amman, Jordan. The WCK operates a crucial logistics hub in Amman, to coordinate aid for Gaza, including the deployment of mobile bakeries that produce hundreds of thousands of daily loaves Featuring: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: Amman, United Kingdom When: 26 Feb 2026 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex accompany a World Health Organisation delegation to the National Centre for Rehabilitation of Addicts (NCRA) in Amman, Jordan Featuring: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: Amman, United Kingdom When: 26 Feb 2026 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex during a visit to the World Central Kitchen Food (WCK), at the Jordan Country Office, in Amman, Jordan. The WCK operates a crucial logistics hub in Amman, to coordinate aid for Gaza, including the deployment of mobile bakeries that produce hundreds of thousands of daily loaves Featuring: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: Amman, United Kingdom When: 26 Feb 2026 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arriving for a visit to the National Centre for Rehabilitation of Addicts (NCRA), with a World Health Organisation delegation in Amman, Jordan Featuring: Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex Where: Amman, United Kingdom When: 26 Feb 2026 Credit: Aaron Chown/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Trump had two failed marriages cheated on all his wives so he gets judgmental over a happy marriage. The nerve of him.
Remember Trump said he likes stupid people, so there you have it, Meghan wins. Let him like Baldimore and Kkkate all he wants.
IM SO GLAD THAT EPSTEIN’S FRIENDS DO NOT LIKE MEGHAN LOL 🤣🤣🤣 HOW MUCH DOES HE HAVE TO PAY THE WOMAN IN NEW YORK FOR TOUCHING HER FANNY IN A DRESSING ROOM 🤣🤣🤣
If DT hates you you’re doing something right. And it sounds like someone is bigly jealous!
He’s obsessed with Meghan and with Obama. Black excellence will blow a racist person’s hair back. It’s very unsettling and discombobulating for them.
Nothing enrages them more than the mere existence of successful and happy black folks.
For sure there’s a large element of racism here – Black excellence drives him crazy like you said.
But also….this man is obsessed with being royal. I think he’s almost personally offended that Meghan and Harry had what he wants so badly and cannot buy – royal status, palaces, a place in the line of succession, huge crowds at Trooping etc, balcony appearances, all of that – and said “no thanks, we prefer California.” his brain cannot comprehend that.
Becks1 you might have a really good point. He is an obvious racists but seeing how over the top he tries to present himself as some type of royal with balcony scenes with flyovers is embarrassingly funny because he does seem to be obsessed with wanting to recreate what the royals have. That’s why his fixation with the ballroom is probably such a huge deal to him. His gold over the top esthetic and his fawning over the royals has been there all along and I never noticed how fixated he has been with them all along.
“That wife of his! Boy, what she’s done to that guy.” The misogyny is a feature, not a bug.
Possibly his two exes and current wife thought that way about him. That ex of mine what he did sort of talk. Melani a did not wear those wide brimmed hats for nothing and avoided his kissing her.
Charles is a real example of someone whose wife runs the show. According to spin about c and c
Got him into therapy, got him out of a toxic family and into a healthy family, got him into clean living/nutrition, supports all his charity work… yeah, poor Harry, someone save him.
Those are all negatives to someone like Trump.
I’m pretty sure he said in spare and in interviews he was already down that path and had started therapy well prior. He’d already saved himself. He was also extremely personally successful prior. Its a common myth that he was saved.
Foghorn he did say that he had tried therapy before but he admitted in Spare and in interviews that the therapy he had tried prior to Meghan was ineffective and it was the possibility of him losing her that made him really try again and take it more seriously and it was then that he had real breakthroughs that he hadn’t had before. It was how he was finally able to really try and address all of his issues that he was finally able to cry about the loss of his mother. They both admit that they were saved by each other in various ways. And no matter how successful either of them were prior to meeting each other, their love and support of each other could only have happened because they have the right partner beside them during the hardest of times.
Nerd – agree.
From Kindle version of Spare (p 306-307):
“I snapped at her [Meghan], spoke to her harshly—cruelly. As the words left my mouth, I could feel everything in the room come to a stop…Meg walked out of the room, disappearing for a full fifteen minutes.
I went and found her upstairs. She was sitting in the bedroom. She was calm, but said in a quiet, level tone that she would never stand for being spoken to like that.
I nodded.
She wanted to know where it came from.
I don’t know.
Where did you ever hear a man speak like that to a woman? Did you overhear adults speak that way when you were growing up?
I cleared my throat, looked away. Yes.
She wasn’t going to tolerate that kind of partner. Or co-parent. That kind of life. She wasn’t going to raise children in an atmosphere of anger or disrespect. She laid it all out, super-clear. We both knew my anger hadn’t been caused by anything to do with our conversation. It came from somewhere deep inside, somewhere that needed to be excavated, and it was obvious that I could use some help with the job.
I’ve tried therapy, I told her. Willy told me to go. Never found the right person. Didn’t work.
No, she said softly. Try again.”
Let’s not all give Willy credit for telling Harry to go to therapy — because, as Harry says, “Didn’t work.”
Just to answer what she did to him. She called him out for his racism and misogyny early in 2016, and just like other famous Black women he hates her for that!
Trump is SUCH a toxic POS 😡 that ANY bull—- burns that come out of corroded disgusting deplorable mouth is a BOON for the person he is TRYING to defame with that LIMITED vocabulary his rotting brain produces😡
As mentioned Trump is a gossiper among many things. Like most critics of Meghan, he Has never met her and probably never will. If this is the best they can do with dragging the Sussexes re Trump, I consider this a win. If Trump likes likes William, you know he considered him a light weight and will run all over him
What frightens me most is the fact that these two have the power to disrupt Harry and Meghan’s future. If you put these two together, there is no telling what they may conspire to do.
These people still out here thinking Trump hates you, so that’s a bad thing? For a media group obsessed with poll numbers, you would think they would consider his. In any case, he’s a tacky gossip and he likes to pretend he knows more and is more involved than he is, so be loves this type of stuff. I can’t imagine Harry and Meghan caring.
The BM is just angry that Harry and Meghan didn’t give them any content during this visit. It was boring and non exceptional like all their other tours. They really wanted Harry and Meghan to do something/anything so they could accuse them of ” overshadowing” but outside of a reel they gave them nothing.
@Dee yes, the only notable thing about the visit was Charles’s speech that was obviously written with the help of the UK government. Everything else has been boring, not terrible or embarrassing but not interesting. So they are back to Harry and Meghan to get clicks. Shame on Hardman for using Meghan bashing to try to flog his flop book.
Trump hating you is the biggest compliment you can have. I don’t see this as a diss because it means you are a good, decent and kind person.
And of course the opposite is true when he praises someone. His praise of William and Kate is not a good thing.
@GINGER
ITA. Here in Alabama, I scratch my head at all the Republican candidates in the midterms begin their campaign videos with how much they STAND WITH TRUMP’S America first policies. One @ss-hole even boasted he agrees with Trump’s heavy handed immigration tactics. Then he said he’d rid our state of illegal aliens by deportations or body bags. I couldn’t believe my ears!
I wouldn’t put Trump’s name in political ads – even if I did like the guy. This is an unhinged President and his followers are unhinged as well.
With the list of crimes the 🍊💩 has I would be insulted if he liked me, no better compliment in the world than to be disliked by him imo.
Well said, I wouldn’t want him to like me either, it’s not a compliment.
If the tour was successful they wouldn’t be talking about Harry and Meghan and Trump talks like a two year old.
Truly a devastating blow! I hope Meghan will be able to pick up the pieces and get on with her life, in spite of the knowledge that the senile fascist in a (likely soiled) diaper disapproves of her marriage. 🙄🙄
Meghan doesn’t read her own press, bad or good. So she’ll never know, unless she’s told about it by someone else.
The shame I would feel if Trump was out there praising me. But that’s just me.
I’m sure the two of them bonded over their complex feelings about Diana.
Trump’s hate on Meghan started before the Sussexit. He called her a nasty woman (which means liberal/feminist/democrat leaning in Trumpspeak) during his first term state visit to the UK. Meghan was a working senior member of the royal family on mat leave at the time and didn’t attend any engagement with Trump.
One major perceived betrayal by Harry that the British press and royal commentariat deeply felt is seldom mentioned. They beat around the bush and never really articulate it but they simply cannot accept that Harry is not right wing. That’s Trump’s biggest problem with the Sussexes. Don’t get me wrong I am not saying his racism is not a factor. He thinks the British Royals are fundamentally right wing. If Harry and Meghan were Tory supporters, he would be treating them differently.
I made this point a few days ago on another post. US government failed Meghan when she got married. They should have treated this marriage as part of the relationship between two countries. QE was political in her decision to give them roles as ambassadors in Commonwealth. We often talk about how the royal family lost their power in Commonwealth countries when they lost the Sussexes. However, I think the royal courtiers think otherwise. Without the Sussex influence that would pander to the realities of Commonwealth, they are now perfectly apolitical by acting right wing which is their sweet spot.
Anyway, not one single person who is among the target audience of the Sussex business and philanthropic brand cares about Trump’s opinion on Harry and Meghan.
@GINGER
ITA. Here in Alabama, I scratch my head at all the Republican candidates in the midterms beginning their campaign videos with how much they STAND WITH TRUMP’S America first policies. One @ss-hole even boasted he agrees with Trump’s heavy handed immigration tactics. Then he said he’d rid our state of illegal aliens by deportations or body bags. I couldn’t believe my ears!
I wouldn’t put Trump’s name in political ads – even if I did like the guy. This is an unhinged President and his followers are unhinged as well.
My theory is that they’re making the bet that siding with Trump and galvanizing his voters is an easier pathway to re-election than breaking from Trump and siding with…whom, exactly? The GOP is MAGA and vice-versa. There’s no one outside of the MAGA world (save for a handful of Repubs that have defected) for then to align with; no viable alternative. In that sense, they’ve really backed themselves into a corner.
I do agree that it’s not gonna help them though. This mess is very much of their own making and is richly deserved.
Oh, what part of Alabama? I was just down there for a few days with my husband to pick over his late grandma’s and uncle’s belongings (it’s fine, they were terrible people), and as a lifelong New Yorker, seeing so much MAGA shit in general is still a little surreal every time I go, but some of those “I love Fascist Daddy/Fascist Daddy loves me best” campaign ads were WILD. We were mostly in the Shoals area, which my husband has always characterized as “not THAT bad”, so I was like, “then what the hell is it like in the rest of the state?!” I think growing up there has just left him with a higher tolerance for stupid bullshit, lol.
This only makes me queasy because Trump’s followers are deranged and Meghan doesn’t need any more crap.
Otherwise, yes, it’s a win for Meghan.
That author looks like such an idiot standing with his book next to Trump. As if Trump would ever read it.
This man is obsessed with Meghan. Like she’s a mystery to him. I think he dislikes people that he doesn’t understand but his hatred can hardly be articulated because Meghan doesn’t do anything outright offensive for him to latch onto and she literally never mentions him. The only time she mentioned him was before she even met Harry.
Harry has given him more bait tbh but I truly don’t think he HATES Harry but he just thinks he should have stayed over there doing Prince stuff for the prestige. My guess is he’d rather be friends with Harry if he had a choice over dull William.
Basically he’ll be friendly with whoever flatters his ego.
He seems obsessed. Borderline fetishes Meghan. I believe it’s just a form of racism.
Trump can’t understand anyone who isn’t entirely motivated by money, power and cruelty. It’s no coincidence he loves dictators, and has said far worse things about Pope Leo than he has ever said about Putin.
A racist serial adulterer who was convicted of rape and accused of even more rapes and pedophilia doesn’t like a woman of color who refuses to surround herself and her kids with other racists, pedophiles and adulterers. Imagine the shock that someone who has a long history of racial discrimination and sexual assault, admires an institution that has laws in place to protect them from racial and sexual discrimination lawsuits. Trump, Charles and William have histories of cheating on their partners or wives and he has a problem with a man, a soldier no less, who has a strong and confident beautiful wife who he loves and respects enough not to embarrass or cheat on. We’ve seen how Trump talks to strong women who don’t cower to fragile weak men who think it’s okay to put their fingers in women’s faces and degrade them.
I’m surprised that the Mail printed the “blocked out” language by Trump. Maybe the writer thought that meant that Kate blocked Meghan’s calls! 😝 That’s not, I am sure, how Trump meant it. In old-timer slang, to “block” someone means to aggressively thwart that person (derived perhaps from the American football tactic?).
That Hardman bloke looks a bit demented, disheveled and utterly useless. He’s the epitome of boomer.
Surely you don’t think that is an accurate description of all the millions of people in that age category? Because that would be really weird.
Not all boomers.