Trump's UK visit

And at the moment the UK has as much a say in those laws as any other country, and if we don't like them we can opt out.
Brexit is the ultimate opt-out, but brexiteers don't want to opt out of everything, just those things they don't like.

To be fair (not easy) to the unelected commission, it doesn't actually make the laws we live by. It proposes them, and they go through extensive consultation, including scrutiny by the European Parliament, before being approved by the Council of Ministers. We may find the whole process an unwarrantable interference in our democratic processes, but elsewhere in Europe this is seen as a protection of democracy.

It depends where you're starting from.

A judiciary should be independent of the political power of a current administration, and the elected head of state and those representing the citizens should be subject to the law, not above it.

I heard a rumour that there are crocodiles in that moat.

His tweets aren't fake though, straight from the horse's mouth (or busy little fingers).

"The crystalline structure, which won the 2013 New London Architecture Award, was designed to reflect the ideals of American democracy - transparency, openness and equality." No wonder he finds it impossible to relate to!

I'd have thought he would like the "semi-circular pond, not dissimilar to a moat" that fronts the building and keeps out the foreign riffraff.

Whatever you think of him President Trump is trying to do what he promised when campaigning for the election. He is being hindered by an unelected judiciary. Only time will tell if he's got it right but he's got a mass media against him not only with fake news but with downright lies. I think people have forgotten what the word illegal means. It's not a sick bird.

There are brilliant minds that want to leave the EU and there are brilliant minds that don't want to leave the EU it's a matter of personal choice. I very much want to leave the EU for many reasons but just one is I don't want a unelected commission making the laws that I live by. Just because someone disagrees with me doesn't make me think they're stupid it just means they have different views from me.

It's now called Trump Turnberry.
I think he might regret that.

Didn't Turnberry have the open taken away from it after trump bought it?

maddy629, Trump owns two golf courses in Scotland - one of them, Turnberry, a championship venue; and the other a thorn in the flesh of the local people in Aberdeenshire. So it's a vain hope that he will never set foot on British soil. Presumably he will turn up in Scotland to play golf, once his presidency is over - sooner rather than later, one hopes.
(look on Youtube for 'You've been Trumped' for an account of his company's behaviour in Aberdeenshire)

Panoramic views of the Thames can be enjoyed through gold-starred floor-to-ceiling windows
I hope I never get invited there, floor to ceiling windows on upper floors, stomach-churning.

From Grosvenor Square to Battersea, it does seem a strange Change of address.

I think the previous embassy was very difficult to police, not a great place to be situated for security reasons.
The new building apparently has a moat around it according to BBC News at Ten.
It looks as if it could become rather weather-worn and dirty very quickly.

Perhaps he doesn't realise that Battersea is very up and coming these days - doesn't Prince George go to school there?

Why, GG do you think that God is on your side??

Unfortunately many leaders of political parties and groups through the ages thought that God was on their side in their endeavors Luckygirl ( and still do.)

Rather like some Gnetters then Lemons.

Maybe trump just can't live up to the ideals of the building, openness, transparency and democracy. He'd much rather have a colonial style building, where he can keep the races separate.

Unfortunately many leaders of political parties and groups through the ages thought that God was on their side in their endeavors Luckygirl ( and still do.)

Well ask Bush about it - it was nothing to do with Obama - just yet another of Trump’s lies

"Construction of the distinctive 12-storey, cube-shaped building, located between Vauxhall and Battersea in south-west London, is estimated to have cost approximately one billion US dollars.

It was funded entirely from sale of US government property in London, the embassy said, and designed by American architects KieranTimberlake.

The crystalline structure, which won the 2013 New London Architecture Award, was designed to reflect the ideals of American democracy - transparency, openness and equality.

Panoramic views of the Thames can be enjoyed through gold-starred floor-to-ceiling windows, while a glimpse of Westminster provides a reassuring nod that the capital's political heart is just a stone's throw away.

Inside, gardens representing different American states wind around the stairs linking each floor, while a semi-circular pond, not dissimilar to a moat, fronts the building.

The embassy expects to welcome 1,000 visitors a day and will employ 800 staff at the building."

Designed by an American.
He might like it better when he goes inside and realises that the windows are gold-starred.

From Grosvenor Square to Battersea, it does seem a strange
Change of address.

Ah, but it is all fine - he has god on his side.

How he can claim to embrace Christianity I do not know. That American brand of religion makes me want to heave.

He makes outrageous nauseating statements then finishes his speech with some reference to god. Pitiful.

I have just seen a picture of the new American embassy!!
I wouldn't want to visit it either.
What an eyesore.
Just a pity he couldn't have let us know earlier.

Be afraid ninny be very afraid.

My comment if the cap fits was in reference to looney lefties. Perhaps I should have said bigoted left leaning, no condemnation of the EU or Macron, Merkel and others who have courted Trump, we are still part of the EU so why is he welcome there and not there.

You appear to be hiding behind grouping people on this forum in order to call them names ninny.

I am to the left of centre in my views - are you saying I am 'loony', 'bigoted', or in somehow wrong/a bad person because you believe I do not 'condemn' those you choose to.

I have no objection to you putting any argument forward that contradicts my views but I do object to the puerile name calling and feel sure it does not follow the GN guidelines.

Said about slavery. Applies equally to what you know about trump.