{"id":11733,"date":"2026-04-29T08:14:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/29\/king-charles-iii-jabs-trump-europe-wwii-us-visit\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:14:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:14:59","slug":"king-charles-iii-jabs-trump-europe-wwii-us-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/29\/king-charles-iii-jabs-trump-europe-wwii-us-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"King Charles III Takes a Jab at Trump During Official US Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles III of the United Kingdom, during his official visit to the United States and meeting with President Donald Trump, made a pointed remark about the role of European countries in World War II. He said that if it were not for the Europeans, Americans today would be speaking French.<\/p>\n<p>This statement came after Trump had previously said that if the United States had not intervened in World War II, Europeans would now be speaking German and Japanese. Some observers interpreted the King&#8217;s comment as an indirect response to Trump&#8217;s earlier remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that the official meeting carried an atmosphere of mutual barbs. Earlier, media outlets had also noted Trump&#8217;s sarcastic tone during his meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, which has been attributed to differing views on various international developments, including how to handle tensions surrounding Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Diplomatic meetings between American and British leaders have always attracted extensive media coverage, and given the special status of both countries in global affairs, the statements made during such meetings are closely scrutinized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles III made a sarcastic remark to President Trump about European roles in WWII during his official US visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}