Thread by @MsMariaT

“It is finally over, then, the state visit during which US President Donald Trump treated Britain like a Moscow hotel mattress. God, we deserved it. ”

Ouch.

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"Rolling news offered the 24-hour spectacle of Britain being borne back ceaselessly into its past, while our best hope for the future is apparently to beg for a few scraps of chlorinated chicken in exchange for a go on the NHS."

#Brexit

"All the 4,876 most boring things to be said in the UK this yr were said during these 3 days, usually over footage of Trump inspecting troops and D-day veterans w/the imperious nod of a five-time draft dodger who described avoiding STDs in 80s Manhattan as “my personal Vietnam”.

"Much as a toddler intimidated by a new present will play with the box instead, Trump dealt with the aspects of the visit that were beyond his skillset by returning to areas firmly within it...."

"...In Westminster Abbey, he was shown a white marble slab commemorating the Romantic poet Lord Byron, and took the opportunity to ask what stone the flooring was made from."

OMFG.

"Oh to be a fly on that wall at that meeting!” anchors kept saying, underscoring the comical lack of access as Trump met w/Nigel Farage or whoever, while they went on about how long it took to lay the dinner table. Some mtgs were more intriguing than others."

TRUMP MET FARAGE.

"Countless moments would have been best served by silence. Sarah Huckabee Sanders scowling out of an upper window of Buckingham Palace like Mrs Danvers...."

"A close-up of Trump’s preposterously ill-fitting attire for the state banquet, a far more disrespectful act of tailoring than even the time the late Alexander McQueen sewed the words “I am a cunt” inside the lining of a suit for Prince Charles."

"busted can of biscuits," fave!

"Any footage of Melania Trump, whose miserable countenance seems living testament to the old adage that when you marry for money, you EARN every penny."

"Any laughs? I enjoyed someone who used to work in the US embassy describing Melania as “a great diplomat”, as well as the talking heads who felt they had to be a bit American."

"The whole political class were on the grift just as much as Trump. The only people to not “get what they wanted out of it” – and really, it’s such a tiny constituency – were people who think that Britain’s mad nostalgia..."

"...and political self-harm is at an advanced clinical stage, and that just because we’ve found the one person more of a basket case than us, doesn’t mean we’re winning." eot ✌️ #Brexit

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