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‘Subtle rebuttals’: what the papers say about King Charles and Trump

the Guardian·Jamie Grierson·6 months ago
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King Charles’s address to the US Congress features on the front pages and websites of many publications on both sides of the Atlantic today. We take a look at how the king’s speech has been interpreted by the UK and US media.

New York Times

Online, Michael D Shear, the NYT’s chief UK correspondent, and Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House reporter, underline what some have seen as warnings in the speech to members of the US Congress.

Under the headline “ Beneath King Charles’s Jokes and Decorum, Some Subtle Rebuttals to Trump ”, Shear and Kanno-Youngs say the king “gently” pushed back against Donald Trump’s attacks on Britain and Nato and “spoke of the importance of checks and balances”.

The coverage on the front page of the newspaper’s print edition is more understated, with an image of Charles in Congress and the headline: “Bipartisan Welcome for a Sovereign”.

Photograph: NYT

Washington Post

Online and on its print front page, the WashPo focuses on the arguably barbed moments of Charles’s…

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