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Trump Delivers Remarks at the State Dinner for King Charles III and Queen Camilla, Apr. 28, 2026

April 28, 2026 · The White House · 0:27:23

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What happened

President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump hosted King Charles III and Queen Camilla at a state dinner at the White House on April 28, 2026. Opening his remarks, the President congratulated the King on his speech to Congress earlier that day: “He got the Democrats to stand. I’ve never been able to do that… They liked him more than they’ve ever liked any Republican or Democrat, actually.” He recalled the visit he and the First Lady had made to Windsor Castle the previous fall — “a structure that’s so beautiful and so long that it never seemed to end” — built, as he noted, by William the Conqueror in 1070.

The toast framed the visit as the ceremonial opening of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: “It’s only natural that Americans begin this commemoration by paying tribute to the transcendent bond we share with the nation that Thomas Jefferson himself called our mother country.” The war of independence, he argued, was fought “not to reject this heritage, but to reclaim it and perfect it,” and though the political bonds were dissolved on July 4, 1776, “the more powerful strands of memory, culture, and identity proved unbreakable… and grew into a friendship unlike any other on Earth.” He closed the passage by calling the pairing of “American patriotism and British pride” a force history has known no more powerful than.

Why it matters

The state dinner is the ceremonial peak of the April 2026 British state visit — the reciprocal half of the Trumps’ Windsor Castle visit — and the President’s own fullest statement of the 250th-anniversary framing that runs through this chronicle’s 2026 record. It is recorded on the Foreign Policy & Defense hub with the arrival ceremony of the same visit.

Sources: The White House, “Dinner with the King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,” The White House, April 28, 2026 (official upload, embedded above; uploaded April 29, 2026). All characterizations as stated by the President in his dinner remarks.