Mega Trump rally for Britain’s war veterans - Trumpmania heading to a football stadium near you?

Westmonster ^ | by Westmonster

[KC_Lion]

OH My Gosh! Sounds like that Area of London is Kelpto-central.

As far as baring Trump from Speaking, they haven't learned anything from the election or Brexit. It is only going to get worse for them, not better.

[Winniesboy]

Rather too much is being made of the Parliamentary address issue. There’s no great tradition of US Presidents doing this on state visits. It’s only ever happened three times - Reagan, Clinton and Obama. Make of that trio what you will...

[naturalman1975]

Again, this 'banned from Parliament' thing is to a great extent, 'fake news'. Part of the media - mostly the anti-Trump media but other organisations seem to have swallowed their spin as well - have turned this into a huge story far beyond what is justified.

What is true is that Speaker Bercow has chosen to insult President Trump, and he does have the power - probably - to stop President Trump speaking at one venue, Westminster Hall, which has occasionally been used for addresses to Parliament. He doesn't have the same power to block President Trump from speaking at the Royal Gallery, which is more commonly used for that purpose, or the Banqueting House which is also a suitable location. He has not banned President Trump from speaking. Nobody has.

It was never at all certain that President Trump would be invited to address Parliament on his first official visit to the United Kingdom, especially so soon after his election. President Clinton addressed Parliament on his third official visit to the United States. So did President Obama. It's true that President Reagan addressed Parliament on his first visit, but he had already been in office a year and a half at that point, and such visits were rarer back then.

The media has spun Bercow's personal rejection of the idea of a speech into a ban by Parliament. And made it look like if no invitation is made it must be because of that ban - rather than consider it was quite likely that an address to Parliament was never planned to be part of this trip. If you go back and look at the press reports from late January, and early February before Bercow decided to speak, you'll find speculation about the possibility that President Trump might be invited to address Parliament, but certainly nothing firm to suggest he would be. This only became a story when Bercow decided to go after the headlines.