Topics: Donald Trump, Keir Starmer, News, Politics, UK News, US News, King Charles III
Donald Trump has everyone convinced of the same exact thing after he asked Keir Stamer to read out King Charles III's letter to him.
On Thursday (27 February), the US president and British Prime Minister met at the White House to discuss a number of political matters, including trade deals, Ukraine's future, and the letter sent by the monarch.
During their meeting, which has since been likened to a scene from the hit 2003 rom-com Love Actually, Starmer presented Trump with a letter from King Charles III that contained an 'unprecedented' invitation for a second state visit to the UK.
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"This is really special," Starmer said. "This has never happened before. This is unprecedented. This is truly historic."
Trump asked Starmer to read out the letter, saying: "Perhaps you'd like to read out that very important paragraph there."
The letter in question was inviting Trump to the UK for a second state visit, with the first seeing the late Queen Elizabeth II host the president six years ago back in 2019.
"That's a great, great honour. And that says at Windsor - that's really something," Trump responded as he accepted the invitation from the King, making him the only elected political leader in modern times to be invited to two state visits by a British monarch.
Clearly wooed by the royal family member's 'unprecedented' invite, Trump also took the time to say some nice words about Charles: "He's a beautiful man, a wonderful man - I've gotten to know him very well, actually, first term and now second term.
"We've known each other now for a little while. This is not our first meeting. He loves his country. And so, that's our common theme. He loves his country. And I love our country."
Trump added: "And we also have two countries that have gotten along for the longest period of time. Number one ally on each side. We have France, Australia, a lot of good ones, but we've had a long-time relationship, a long time, hundreds of years."
Since watching the interaction, a number of people online have rushed in to share their speculation that Trump couldn't read the letter.
One social media user declared: "PROOF Trump is completely illiterate, as has been documented many times. First of all, he didn't want to read the letter in the first place.
"Then acts like he's reading it, but later you can see by the length of the letter, there is NO WAY he read it. Then, makes the official describe what was in letter. Trump CANNOT read. This is the MORON who is President."
A second agreed: "He didn’t read it. I’m not sure that he knows how to read. I truly think he’s illiterate."
"Yeah, pretty sure he’s practically illiterate," echoed a third while a fourth chimed in: "Lol Trump doesn't know how to read."
Another claimed: "Donald probably needs reading glasses. He can fake it sometimes bc he is told ahead of time what he will be handed, but unexpected papers, he can’t read it."
And a final social media user added: "Couldn’t read it or couldn’t see it. Or both."
