Donald Trump is facing growing calls for his impeachment as he arrives in the UK for a three-day state visit during which he and his family will meet the Queen, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall at Buckingham Palace.
The US president’s trip is already off to a rocky start after he launched into an attack on London mayor Sadiq Khan, whom he branded “a stone cold loser” on Twitter, a remark in turn labelled “childish” by a City Hall spokesman.
Before departing Washington, Trump praised Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, suggested the UK leave the EU without a deal and denied calling Meghan Markle “nasty” in an interview with a British newspaper, despite their having his comment on tape.
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US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has meanwhile delivered a sobering assessment of the prospects of the Trump administration’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan in a closed-door meeting with Jewish leaders, saying "one might argue" that the plan is "un-executable" and it might not "gain traction".
"It may be rejected. Could be in the end, folks will say: 'It’s not particularly original, it doesn’t particularly work for me,' that is, 'it’s got two good things and nine bad things, I’m out'," Pompeo said in an audio recording of the private meeting obtained by The Washington Post.
After the president inspected his honour guard - formed by the Nijmegen Company Grenadier Guards, with the Band of the Grenadier Guards and Corps of Drums of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards - the Trumps and Windsors stood for "God Save the Queen" and a march past.
They have now headed inside for a private lunch where they'll be joined by Prince Harry and others, after which they'll view the palace picture gallery to observe works of American interest in the Royal Collection.
The moment you've all been waiting for.
This is at least Melania's third outfit change already.
Here's Ivanka Trump at Buckingham Palace.
And here's her father meeting Prince Charles.
Fox News suspect we nefarious Brits have been lying to them about the reason Trump can't stay at Buckingham Palace.
They've also already forgotten who poor old Theresa May is.
Sadiq is wisely not rising to Trump's taunts, preferring to take the moral high-ground by praising London as a centre of multiculturalism and diversity and remembering the London Bridge terror attack two summers ago.
Amnesty International have unfurled this banner from Vauxhall Bridge as the protests get underway in earnest.
Trump hasn't wasted any time in turning on the TV at the US ambassador's residence to check out how his hair's looking.
The only trouble is they only have CNN.
The only trouble is they only have CNN.
On the Scandal That Won't Die, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney insisted on Meet the Press that asking for the USS John S McCain to be moved "out of sight" in Japan was "not an unreasonable thing" to have demanded.
The Pentagon has meanwhile ordered the White House to stop politicising the military.
Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, meanwhile struggled horribly to defend the president over whether his campaign rhetoric has been racist in an interview with Axios, particularly tongue-tied when grilled by reporter Jonathan Swan over the old man's insistence on pushing the Obama birth certificate conspiracy.
Before the president left for London, his now-customary Sunday tweetstorm took Russia to task for "butchery" in Syria, announced he was sending "a big delegation" to Mexico to discuss the border and confirmed the departure of his chief economist, Kevin Hassett.
Hassett - known for his "upbeat demeanor", according to Politico - has been chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers since September 2017.
He also, of course, droned on about the Mueller report.
Back home, a new poll from CNN conducted in the wake of FBI special counsel Robert Mueller's surprise press conference to explain the findings contained with his report into Russian election hacking found that the number of Americans backing Trump's impeachment has risen from 37 percent to 41 percent.
While a majority - 54 percent - still say he should not face impeachment, that's down from 59 percent in April.
The number of Democrats in favour is up from 69 percent to 76 percent.
Interestingly, the number of Republicans opposed to House Democrats' investigations into Trump actually dropped from 84 percent to 76 percent.
Two-thirds of American citizens - 67 percent - meanwhile still want Mueller to testify before Congress on his investigation, despite his insistence that his work "speaks for itself".
Here are the Trumps arriving at Winfield House.
Here's Chris Stevenson on what Trump might hope to get from his state visit to Brexitannia.
Here's The Indy's Mark Steel on how the Queen can join in today's protests.
If you're interested in Her Majesty's past encounters with American presidents, here's some light reading.
She's met every single one since 1945, barring Lyndon Johnson.
She's met every single one since 1945, barring Lyndon Johnson.
More on that from Tom Embury-Dennis.
Here's the response to that Twitter attack on Sadiq Khan.
Labour's Diane Abbott, Yvette Cooper and David Lammy have come out swinging.
