Three days before the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a veteran of the Normandy landings was present at Buckingham Palace to watch the presidential motorcade drive by.
Charles L Annibale, who served in the US Navy, praised Trump for taking a hard line in demanding financial contributions from other NATO member states.
"The President will come here and papers won’t give him any credit, but he has done an awful lot for the US -- but also for your country, and for NATO," he said.
Annibale said the relationship between the US and the UK remained important.
"It’s wonderful the two countries speak English and they get along, even if their politics might differ, it’s still on a friendly basis," he said.
Annibale, 93, said he was planning to head to France for the 75th anniversary commemorations of D-Day later this week: "They tell me I’m going to receive a medal. I think I got enough medals."
Recalling D-Day, he told CNN: "There were about 7,000 ships as far as they eye could see ... [It was] chaos ... you couldn’t see the beaches there was so much equipment and people. I had to go back four years ago and I saw the beaches and they were beautiful ... But I didn’t see that on D-Day. I didn’t see the beach.”
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-uk-visit-2019-gbr-intl/index.html
2019-06-03 16:01:00Z
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