King Charles of the U.K. sat awkwardly yesterday as convicted felon Donald Trump delivered a racist, blood-and-soil speech to “welcome” him to the White House. In a bizarre and deeply uncomfortable moment during the visit of King Charles III, Donald Trump delivered a rambling, race-tinged tribute that sounded more like 19th-century white supremacist rhetoric than a modern presidential address. In the first few minutes of his remarks (which surely must have been written in part by white nationalist Stephen Miller), Trump unleashed the following:
Long before Americans had a nation or a constitution, we first had a
culture, a character, and a creed. Before we ever proclaimed our
independence, Americans carried within us the rarest of gifts: moral
courage, and it came from a small but mighty kingdom from across the
sea. For nearly two centuries before the revolution, this land was
settled and forged by men, women who bore in their souls the blood and
noble spirit of the British. Here on a wild and untamed continent, they
set loose the ancient English love of liberty and Great Britain’s
distinctive sense of glory, destiny, and pride, and that’s what it is:
glory, destiny, and pride.
The American patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776
were the heirs to this majestic inheritance. Their veins ran with
Anglo-Saxon courage. Their hearts beat with an English faith in standing
firm for what is right, good, and true.
In recent years, we’ve often heard it said that America is merely an
idea, but the cause of freedom did not simply appear as an intellectual
invention of 1776. The American founding was the culmination of hundreds
of years of thought, struggle, sweat, blood, and sacrifice on both
sides of the Atlantic.
Let me first say that "moral courage" in the United States didn't come solely from a "small but mighty kingdom from across the sea." It also came from America's indigenous peoples, African slaves and Mexican immigrants, whose descendants are an integral part of the American culture. In his ignorant mind, Trump was arguing that "America" was the result of “hundreds of years of thought, struggle, sweat, blood and sacrifice on both sides of the Atlantic” – implying that America’s greatness comes from white European bloodlines.
His attempt to shoehorn in a paraphrase of Churchill at the end fell completely flat and came off as awkward and forced in context. Trump, who often comically claims he’s the “least racist person” in the room, is nonetheless standing beside the King of England, pushing a vision of American identity rooted in racial and ethnic purity rather than the ideals of liberty, equality, and democracy that actually define this country.
It was embarrassing, ahistorical, and revealing. Trump isn’t celebrating America’s founding values. He’s pushing a white nationalist fantasy that has no place in 2026.
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