FULL VIDEO: King Charles and Queen Camilla host a grand Royal State Dinner for President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump in the UK. The lavish banquet highlights tradition, diplomacy, and the strengthening of US-UK relations during Trump’s state visit.
00:00President Trump and the First Lady, and to the health, prosperity, and happiness of the people of the United States of America.
00:09It's a singular privilege to be the first American president welcomed here.
00:15On behalf of all Americans, I offer a toast to one of the great friendships to two great countries.
01:32Therefore, as we celebrate this unparalleled partnership,
02:00allow me to propose a toast to President Trump and the First Lady,
02:07and to the health, prosperity and happiness of the people of the United States of America.
03:52Your Majesty, Melania and I are deeply grateful to you and Queen Camilla for your extraordinary graciousness.
04:02And to William and Kate, thank you so much.
04:05It's been so great being with you today.
04:07Thank you very much.
04:08Appreciate it.
04:09It's a singular privilege to be the first American president welcomed here.
04:15And the — if you think about it, it's a — it's a lot of presidents.
04:20And this was the second state visit.
04:23And that's the first.
04:26And maybe that's going to be the last time.
04:29I hope it is, actually.
04:31But this is truly one of the highest honors of my life.
04:34Such respect for you and such respect for your country.
04:37For many decades, His Majesty the King has epitomized the fortitude, nobility,
04:44and the spirit of the British monarchy and the British people.
04:48He's dedicated himself to preserving the glory and unique character of this kingdom, restoring life to the rivers and streams, supporting the works of its artists and composers, planting trees and gardens in its countryside.
05:03And I just visited one of the most beautiful I've ever seen that you just completed, and protecting the architectural integrity of cities, villages, and towns.
05:13He has uplifted the poor, cared for rural farmers, and tended to wounded veterans like nobody else.
05:22I'll tell you that I just stood in line and shook about 150 hands.
05:27And the king knew every single person and every single company.
05:31And some of them had bad names, like XYZ-Q3.
05:37And he knew every one of them.
05:39Or at least I think he did, because nobody was complaining.
05:42I was very impressed with that.
05:44On behalf of all Americans, I offer a toast to one of the great friendships, to two great countries, and to His Majesty, King Charles III, a very, very special man, and also a very, very special queen.
06:01Thank you very much.
06:03Thank you very much.
06:04It's a great honor to be with you.
06:08Thanks for listening.
06:40Amen.
07:10Many years ago, His Majesty opened his archives to a biographer.
07:18Among the documents was a letter from 1993 in which he described the patriotism and guided his many projects.
07:27He wrote that he was, quote, entirely motivated by a desperate desire to put the great back into Great Britain.
07:36In the finest tradition of British sovereigns, he's given his whole heart, everything he's got to those parts of Britain that are beyond the realm of mere legislation.
07:51It's not easy, but which define its essence and its virtue, its harmony and its soul.
07:57It's an amazing calling, and there's nobody that's answered that calling like you have.
08:05A fifth of all, if humanity speaks, writes, thinks, and prays in the language born on these aisles and perfected in the pages of Shakespeare and Dickens and Tolkien, Lewis, Orwell, Kipling.
08:20Incredible people, unbelievable people like we have rarely seen before, probably won't see again.
08:31The lion-hearted people of this kingdom defeated Napoleon, unleashed the Industrial Revolution, destroyed slavery, and defended civilization in the darkest days of fascism and communism.
08:43The British gave the world the Magna Carta, the modern parliament, and Francis Bacon's scientific method.
08:52They gave us the works of Locke, Hobbes, Smith, Burke, Newton, and Blackstone.
08:58The legal, intellectual, cultural, and political traditions of this kingdom have been among the highest achievements of mankind.
09:06It's really never been anything like it.
09:09The British Empire laid the foundations of law, liberty, free speech, and individual rights virtually everywhere the Union Jack has ever flown, including a place called America.
09:23You know that place very well, don't you?
09:26His Majesty spoke eloquently about the bond which inspired Sir Winston Churchill.
09:32The bus is in the Oval Office right now, the beautiful bus of Winston Churchill, to coin the phrase special relationship.
09:41But seen from American eyes, the word special does not begin to do it justice.
09:48We're joined by history and fate, by love and language, and by transcendent ties of culture, tradition, ancestry, and destiny.
09:57We're like two notes in one chord, or two verses of the same poem, each beautiful, on its own, but really meant to be played together.
10:10The bond of kinship and identity between America and the United Kingdom is priceless and eternal.
10:17It's irreplaceable and unbreakable.
10:18And we are, as a country, as you know, doing unbelievably well.
10:25We had a very sick country one year ago, and today, I believe, we're the hottest country anywhere in the world.
10:34In fact, nobody's even questioning it, but we owe so much of that to you and the footing that you gave us when we started.
10:42Together, we've done more good for humanity than any two countries in all of history.
10:46Together, we must defend the exceptional heritage that makes us who we are, and we must continue to stand for the values of the people of the English-speaking world.
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