King Charles III heads to Washington on a delicate mission to restore the U.K.-U.S. relationship

I absolutely loved watching other leaders do it back to him.

Charles would rip his tiny hand right off with his giant beefy sausage fingers

He probably lost the physical capacity to do so, as it happens to dementia-ridden octogenarians.

President Crybaby can't do the armpull bully move anymore. Sad!

The world say how Trudeau handled it, and every other leader immediately copied the counter move. It made it ineffective, so Trump stopped doing it to avoid embarrassment. That was also the moment Trump started his hate-on for Canada, which has gotten a little better under Carney.

I thought that was Elon Musk.

Country? Charles is Head of State for several besides the UK...Canada, New Zealand, Australia.

This is pretty much it. If he leaves office in 2028, it still won’t mean much if he maintains the position as the leading figure in Republican Party politics. While I don’t want many people (including many Americans) to mistake the current state of the Republican Party being almost entirely because of Trump, his presence undeniably contributed to the current state of affairs. One of the clearest domestic examples of what I mean was toward the end of the Biden administration when the administration and many members of Congress tried to pass what would’ve been the fiat piece of immigration legislation in a loooooong time. The Senate, controlled by Republicans, agreed on a bill, and my own Republican senator put a lot of political capital on the line for this bill. For a while, it looked like the House got enough Democrats and Republicans to agree on the Senate’s bill, and Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, even indicated at some point that he had the votes.  But as this unfolded Trump, who was out of office, was making it known that he didn’t want Biden to pass an immigration bill that close to the 2024 election because it would be a win for Biden and the Democrats on an issue Republicans typically have more trust from the American public on. Gradually, House Republicans backed away from the bill, afraid to be seen as going against Trump. And if people don’t want to believe how much influence Trump has over Republican politicians, I want to inform/remind people that former Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, who went back to the Senate is on record saying that multiple Republican colleagues confided in him that they were afraid to be seen as going against Trump not just because of the usual selfish calculation of potential losing in upcoming primaries but because they were afraid for their safety and that of their families.  And it’s not a wild concern. The whole world saw on January 6th how far segments of Trump’s supporters are willing to go on his behalf as they stormed the Capitol. They also chanted to hang Trump’s own Vice President because the Vice President has the integrity not to play along with the administration and Republican Party’s fake electors scheme. And yes, I indict the Republican Party in that because multiple state level Republican Parties coordinated with people in Trump’s inner circle for that election quackery.

That explains little. Whoever made the decision is subject to the same question.