Donald Trump remembers Queen Elizabeth II during ceremonial welcome speech

[0:00] thank you very much everybody what a beautiful british day this is and it really is your [0:10] majesty's members of the british delegation friends service members and distinguished guests [0:18] welcome to the beautiful white house great honor to have you melanie and i will never forget the [0:25] spectacular honor your majesties showed us during our extraordinary visit to windsor castle last [0:34] september now it is our tremendous privilege to host you and you're going to have a wonderful [0:41] short stay but stay nevertheless then you're going over to congress and you're going to make [0:48] a speech that's going to make everybody very envious of that beautiful accent of yours very [0:54] elegant he's a very elegant man here in the shadows of monuments to george washington thomas jefferson [1:02] honoring the british king might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of [1:10] american independence but in fact no tribute could be more appropriate long before americans had a [1:18] nation or a constitution we first had a culture a character and a creed before we ever proclaimed [1:27] our independence americans carried within us the rarest of gifts moral courage and it came from a [1:35] small but mighty kingdom from across the sea for nearly two centuries before the revolution this land [1:43] was settled and forged by men women who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit of the british [1:51] here on a wild and untamed continent they set loose the ancient english love of liberty and the great [1:59] britain's distinctive sense of glory destiny and pride and that's what it is glory destiny and pride [2:08] the american patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776 were the heirs to this majestic [2:17] inheritance their veins ran with anglo-saxon courage their hearts beat with an english faith and standing [2:25] firm for what is right good and true in recent years we've often heard it said that america is merely an [2:35] idea but the cause of freedom did not simply appear as an intellectual invention of 1776 the american [2:46] founding was the culmination of hundreds of years of thought struggle sweat blood and sacrifice on [2:54] both sides of the atlantic fate drew a long arc from the meadow at runnymede to the streets of [3:03] philadelphia that ran through the lives of people born and bred on the british code that no man should be [3:11] denied either justice or right american patriots today can sing my country tis of thee sweet land of liberty [3:23] only because our colonial ancestors first saying god save the king we see today a living symbol of this [3:35] centuries-old bond just a few dozen feet to the left where i stand there her late majesty queen elizabeth [3:48] an incredible woman who i had the privilege of getting to know queen elizabeth ii very very special [3:58] woman who is very greatly missed on both sides of that mighty atlantic long ago planted a young tree [4:09] it was a very young and beautiful tree and look at it now it's tripled in size and tripled in strength [4:17] very much as our nations have even more than tripled like our nation itself it was laid with british hands [4:26] but grew in american soil today it stands tall and proud reaching ever higher and this morning it reminds [4:33] us that the mightiest of trees like the greatest of nations must be anchored by the strongest and deepest [4:41] of roots in the centuries since we won our independence americans have had no closer friends than the [4:51] british we share that same root we speak the same language we hold the same values and together our [5:01] warriors have defended the same extraordinary civilization under twin banners of red white and blue my [5:11] wonderful mother mary mccloud mary mccloud was born in stornoway scotland the hebrides and that's what [5:21] they call very serious scotland there's no question about it some places they say well it wasn't really [5:27] scotland the hebrides that's real serious scotland that's where they had their greatest of warriors [5:34] their greatest of warriors she came to america at 19 met my incredible father we loved him so much [5:44] we all loved him we loved her we loved him fred and they were married for 63 years and uh excuse me if [5:55] you don't mind that's a record we won't be able to match darling i'm sorry just not going to work out [6:02] that way we'll do well but we're not going to do that well 63 years and my mother i've i just see it [6:15] so clearly she loved i told the king that she loved the royal family and she loved the queen and anytime [6:28] the queen was involved in a ceremony or anything my mother would be glued to the television and she'd say [6:37] look donald look how beautiful that is she really did love the family but i also remember her saying [6:44] very clearly charles look young charles he's so cute my mother my mother had a crush on charles can [6:58] you believe it amazing how i wonder what she's thinking right now but beneath those beautiful flags [7:07] eight decades ago prime minister winston churchill and president franklin roosevelt famous famously met on [7:16] a ship in the north atlantic to outline a vision for the free world after world war ii that understanding [7:24] of our nation's unique bond and role in history is the essence of our special relationship and we hope [7:32] it will always remain that way the ship where the two great leaders met was called the prince of wales [7:41] the very title that his majesty the king held longer than any other individual in british history and he [7:49] held it with great pride and respect it said that when prime minister churchill first met this future [7:58] king many decades ago he was so impressed he made the statement he is so young to think so much and so well [8:08] and the bust of your great prime minister rests proudly again in the oval office we're very proud to bring [8:21] it back we brought it back throughout his majesty's life the world has witnessed that same thoughtfulness [8:31] which first struck britain's greatest prime minister his majesty's intellect passion and devotion [8:39] have been a long really a long blessing blessing to the british people but not only to his own country [8:49] but to the cherished bond between the united states and the united kingdom and i am very certain that it will [8:59] continue that way long into the future in a few hours his majesty will stand in the heart of the united states [9:08] capital as the very first british king ever to address a joint session of the united states congress so [9:20] he's going to be addressing congress and i'm going to be watching i was thinking of going but they said i [9:27] don't know that might be a step too far i would love to go it's not supposed to be protocol but i would love [9:35] to be with you but there the direct descendant of king george the third will speak to the direct [9:44] successor of the very body that gathered in independence hall on july 4th 1776. if john [9:53] adams and george washington or the king's fifth great-grandfather could see that sight they might [10:00] be absolutely shocked but probably only for a moment surely they would be delighted that the wounds of [10:09] war healed into the most cherished friendship think of that very very long ago difficult war and yet [10:20] those wounds did indeed heal into the most cherished of friendships most cherished they would be moved [10:27] beyond words to know that the soldiers who once called each other redcoats and yankees became the [10:35] tommies and the gis who together saved the free world as brothers in arms and brothers in eternity and [10:42] nobody fought better together than us if they could see us today our ancestors would surely be filled [10:52] with awe and pride that the anglo-american revolution in human freedom was never ever extinguished but [11:01] carried forward across centuries across oceans and across history until it became a fire that lit the [11:08] the entire world so today we look back on 250 years let us remember what has made our countries the two [11:19] most exceptional nations the world has ever known and together let us go forward with even stronger [11:27] resolve to carry on our sacred devotion to liberty and to the traditions of excellence that have been our [11:35] shared gift of all mankind your majesty's thank you once again for making this important visit we are so [11:47] honored may god forever bless the united kingdom great britain and northern ireland and may god bless [11:58] the united states of america thank you very much everybody thank you