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Trump’s Visit Proved the Utter Corruption of Our Political and Media Class

by | Sep 21, 2025 | 12 comments

Jonathan Cook – Jonathan-Cook.net Sept 19, 2025

Aside from the spectacle of our leaders openly prostrating before Trump, the truth of Britain’s “special relationship” with the US was mostly found in unscripted moments around his visit

I don’t know about you, but I find myself increasingly at a loss to put into words the extraordinary times we are living through.

Even the best satirists cannot compete with the astonishing, comic scenes offered to us by the British and US ruling classes during Donald Trump’s visit to Windsor Castle and Chequers.

King Charles giving Trump the run-around of his taxpayer-funded mansion and grounds simply served to underscore Britain’s vassal status.

But the king’s flaunting of his, and our, servitude to the US imperial order somehow failed – as it might have done in times of old – to contribute any greater stature to the perma-tanned gangster-in-chief. He just looked even more the spoilt, giant toddler in need of constant distraction and pacification.

Stuff him in the golden carriage-pram and let him roll around the grounds, out of sight, for an hour or so. Let him play with some soldiers and watch fast planes flying overhead. Let him dress up and have a party in the big dining hall.

All of this in the hope that he wouldn’t throw a temper tantrum and stick nasty tariffs on our goods.

Maybe his scriptwriter understood that postmodern irony was the only proper response. He slipped into Trump’s after-dinner speech an approving reference to George Orwell, the author of the dystopian novel 1984 about a society where everyone is enslaved to Big Brother.

What might Orwell have made of that?

Aside from the spectacle of our ruling class openly prostrating before Trump, the truth of Britain’s “special relationship” with the US was mostly found in the unscripted moments around his visit.

It was Trump explaining to a rogue Australian reporter, who tried to question the US President about his corrupt personal affairs, the implicitly transactional relationship between world leaders and the media: journalists get access to the centres of power but only if they don’t probe too deeply.

Trump made clear: “You are hurting Australia very much right now. They want to get along with me. Your leader is coming to see me soon. I’m going to tell him about you.”

Which career-minded journalist wants to lose their job – or to be held personally responsible for the imposition of a new round of US tariffs?

Which perhaps explains why, when Trump and Starmer faced the press after their meeting today, the journalists selected to address the pair obediently delivered only softball questions.

Those not in fear of their professional standing – that is, ordinary people – were free to take to the streets to protest the visit. So long as there was no danger Trump might be exposed to their clamour.

Four members of the group Led By Donkeys who dared to organise a protest that might actually be heard were arrested for “malicious communication”. They projected onto one of Windsor Castle’s towers a nine-minute documentary charting the decades-long, intimate relationship between Trump and notorious child-sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

According to the 1988 law, a communication is malicious if it is “threatening, indecent, grossly offensive, or a known falsehood”. As the film was entirely truthful and nothing in it indecent or threatening (except to the US President’s reputation), the British police are presumably interpreting “grossly offensive” to mean anything that might offend Trump – which covers a huge number of truthful things.

It is not just journalists who have an entirely transactional, principle-free relationship with power. The visit was a potent reminder that politicians do too.

Yvette Cooper, the new foreign secretary, warmly greeted Trump as he stepped off his Air Force One plane in London. That is the same Cooper who a few years ago, when safely in opposition of course, made an impassioned speech denouncing Trump in no uncertain terms as a sexual predator we should have nothing to do with.

If that turnaround seemed baffling, Tory politician Penny Mordaunt was on hand to remind us what political principle looks like.

Questioned by the new Green Party leader Zack Polanksi, she called out as “student politics” his – and presumably most reasonable people’s – opposition to Trump banning books, militarising the police and reversing women’s long-fought-for reproductive rights.

Mordaunt, like King Charles, Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper, is an adult in the room. They understand that principles are a luxury we cannot afford.

Let genocide in Gaza roll on. Describe the starvation of children as “self-defence”. Define anyone trying to stop it a “terrorist”.

Because the worst crime in the world is to behave like principles matter, and to imagine that saving innocent lives is more than just silly “student politics”.

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12 Comments

  1. Tony O'Neill on September 21, 2025 at 8:39 am

    “Trump made clear: “You are hurting Australia very much right now. They want to get along with me. Your leader is coming to see me soon. I’m going to tell him about you.””

    Spoken like the true gangster it is. That photo at the top: imagine the amount of wealth these two creeps control yet they still look like two old fools dressed in crumpled suits. It seems the ‘suit’ is the liar’s uniform. I’ll never wear one.

    As for that hag, Penny Mordaunt , yet another overrated, overpaid and over promoted female. It should have been tied to the kitchen sink where it would do no harm.

  2. Erik Blessing on September 21, 2025 at 9:53 am

    JC is at a loss because after 9.5 yrs into the Global Military Operation he can’t comprehend Britain is a conquered Nation, even if you show it ..

  3. chesterton on September 21, 2025 at 10:46 am

    LOL..

    ‘Even the best satirists cannot compete with the astonishing, comic scenes offered to us by the British and US ruling classes during Donald Trump’s visit to Windsor Castle and Chequers.’

    Indeed..but one must try..

    the reason for this being satire used to poke through the fake veneer and expose the rot festering underneath very un-civil society..it cut to the chase and exposed the nonsense and Evil for what it is…the fabrications and pretensions the laughable rituals and hypocrisy of it all..

    using humour…a coping mechanism, which is the perfect vehicle for making more-ons think, via invoking discomfort..in their cerebral vacuum..

    but now that imbeciles running the farm have dispensed with any pretense to being civil-ised.. which has basically kicked the chair from under themselves …

    they now of course self satirize .. because they have no foul depths left to plumb..

    satirists are now journal-ists..

  4. MM on September 21, 2025 at 12:02 pm

    Britain’s moronic Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Justice David Lammy says Human Rights Laws must be fit for the times we live in. Say what? Human rights are natural rights and should be eternal and never at the whim of whichever politician is in charge. We all know the human rights values in the time of Hitler and Stalin. They meant virtually nothing. That’s what happens when human rights fit the times people live in. Those who want rid of them because others have them are so incredibly short-sighted.

    https://uk.news.yahoo.com/human-rights-laws-must-fit-113645374.html

  5. Costa latorre on September 21, 2025 at 1:35 pm

    If you’ve ever found yourself very uncomfortable sitting in an airlines seat, dont worry, those seats are designed for the neanderthal man (not the homo sapien). Their neck to back is fused as one , rather a no-neck posture, like the one you can see on T2. Along with other physical attributes this critter is different. And it is not friendly for humankind.

  6. Boris Balkan on September 21, 2025 at 1:39 pm

    More BS. Keep the white man distracted from the reality that he lives on an overpopulated planet of 7-8 billion ballooning wogs intentionally engineered/increased over the past century via Jewish-Chrisitian humanitarian aid into Africa/Asia/Latin America. This was done to create an immense army of simian-mongrel scum to invade the white West with. Not much you can do about it, since the majority of whites are followers of the the insane ideals & ethics of Commie Jesus & Commie Marx. The fall of Hitler was the fall of the white man. Only Nico X has provided us with the answer to the question of ‘How do we liberate the white race from Jewish-Christian-Communist mind control & its degradation into mongrel oblivion?

    ‘The Book of the Law’

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  7. Audrey on September 21, 2025 at 1:57 pm

    F THE RICH

    hey nico if you’re reading this, thanks for the great books you recommended me to read, i’m reading ‘Behind Communism’ now. Awesome info showing how these ugly mongrels created Communism to overthrow white civilization

  8. KnowThanx on September 21, 2025 at 2:12 pm

    Jonnathan Cooked, then typed:
    “Mordaunt, like King Charles, Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper, is an adult in the room.”

    Really???
    .

  9. nicoite on September 21, 2025 at 4:07 pm

    Audrey

    also add Clarke’s book ‘2001 A Space Odyssey’ to your curriculum. The book is better than the film, which is basically Clarke’s idea of a new superior race of man eliminating the older inferior one. One could say its Nietzshe’s ‘Zarathustra’ set in space. Most people of course will not interpret it that way, but most people are mindless christianized-communized cattle. Enjoy.

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  10. Peter Petherington on September 21, 2025 at 7:15 pm

    Top photo: Judging by Donny’s grimacing and Charlies self-satisfied look of “There’s MORE where that came from sailorboy!”…

    don’t be surprised to hear that Trumpy was on the “receiving end” of His Morgue’stys Royal Ramrod… BELOW the POOP Deck!

    Geez.. what a fkin clown show!!🤣

  11. SpeakUp on September 21, 2025 at 8:35 pm

    Little kids in costumes, strutting around like little Caesars. Looks like the British Caesar has had a face lift: smoother forehead, sagging jowls much reduced, haughtiness enhanced.

  12. lewis jones on September 21, 2025 at 10:21 pm

    People like Charles Windsor have to bow a little because Trump is inspiring political movements all over the world, unlike them