NOW: President Trump Delivers a Powerful Speech at King Charles White House Ceremony — AC14

[0:00] Ladies and gentlemen the president of the United States Donald J. Trump. Thank you very much everybody. What a [0:18] beautiful [0:19] British day this is and it really is your majesty's members of the [0:27] British delegation [0:29] Friends service members and distinguished guests welcome to the beautiful White House [0:35] Great honor to have you Melania and I will never forget the spectacular honor your majesties [0:42] Showed us during our extraordinary visit to Windsor Castle last September [0:49] Now it is our tremendous privilege to host you and you're going to have a wonderful [0:55] Short stay but stay nevertheless then you're going over to Congress and you're going to make a speech [1:03] That's going to make everybody very envious of that beautiful accent of yours very elegant [1:09] He's a very elegant man here in the shadows of monuments to George Washington Thomas Jefferson [1:17] honoring the British King [1:19] Might seem an ironic beginning to our celebration of 250 years of American independence [1:26] But in fact no tribute could be more appropriate long before Americans had a nation or a [1:34] Constitution we first had a culture a character and a creed before we ever proclaimed our independence [1:43] Americans carried within us [1:45] The rarest of gifts moral courage and it came from a small but mighty kingdom [1:52] From across the sea for nearly two centuries before the revolution [1:56] This land was settled and forged to by men women who bore in their souls the blood and noble spirit of the British [2:05] Here on a wild and untamed continent they set loose the ancient English love of liberty and the great Britain's distinctive sense of glory [2:16] Destiny and pride and that's what it is glory [2:19] Destiny and pride the American patriots who pledged their lives to independence in 1776 were the heirs to this [2:31] majestic [2:32] Inheritance their veins ran with anglo-saxon courage their hearts beat with an English faith and standing firm for what is right good and [2:43] True in recent years [2:46] We've often heard it said that America is merely an idea but the cause of freedom [2:53] Did not simply appear as an intellectual invention of? [2:59] 1776 the American founding was the [3:03] culmination of hundreds of years of thought struggle sweat blood and sacrifice on [3:09] Both sides of the Atlantic fate drew a long arc from the meadow at [3:15] Runnymede to the streets of philadelphia that ran through the lives of people born and bred on the british code that [3:24] No, man should be denied either justice or right [3:30] American patriots today can sing my country tis of thee [3:34] sweet land of liberty only because our colonial [3:40] Ancestors first saying God save the king [3:45] We see today a living symbol of this centuries-old bond just a few dozen feet to the left [3:55] where I stand there her late [4:01] majesty Queen Elizabeth and [4:03] Incredible woman who I had the privilege of getting to know Queen Elizabeth the second very very special woman who is very greatly missed on [4:15] On both sides of that mighty Atlantic long ago planted a young tree [4:22] It was a very young and beautiful tree and look at it now [4:26] It's tripled in size and tripled in strength very much as our nations have even more than tripled [4:36] Like our nation itself. It was laid with British hands, but grew in American soil today [4:43] It stands tall and proud reaching ever higher and this morning. It reminds us that the mightiest of trees [4:50] Like the greatest of nations must be anchored by the strongest and deepest of roots in the centuries since we won our [5:00] independence [5:01] Americans have had no [5:03] Closer friends than the British we share that same [5:07] Same route we speak the same language we hold the same [5:14] values and together our warriors have defended the [5:19] Same extraordinary civilization under twin banners of red white and blue [5:26] My wonderful mother Mary McCloud Mary McCloud was born in Stornoway, Scotland [5:34] The Hebrides and that's what they call very serious Scotland. There's no question about it [5:39] Some places they say well, it wasn't really Scotland the Hebrides that's real [5:45] Syria, Scotland. That's where they had their greatest of warriors their greatest of warriors. She came to america at 19 [5:55] met my [5:56] Incredible father. We loved him so much. We all loved him. We loved her. We loved him [6:02] Fred and they were married for [6:06] 63 years and [6:09] Excuse me if you don't mind that's a record [6:12] We won't be able to match darling. I'm sorry. Just not going to work out that way [6:17] We'll do well, but we're not going to do that. Well [6:21] 63 years and [6:26] My mother I've I just see it so clearly [6:31] She loved and I told the king that she loved the royal family and she loved the queen and [6:42] Anytime the queen was involved in a ceremony or anything [6:46] My mother would be glued to the television and she'd say [6:51] Look, donald look how beautiful that is. She really did love the family [6:56] But I also remember her saying very clearly [7:02] Charles look young charles [7:05] He's so cute [7:07] My mother my mother had a crush on charles. Can you believe it? [7:15] Amazing how I wonder what she's thinking right now [7:20] But beneath those beautiful flags eight decades ago [7:24] prime minister winston churchill and president [7:27] Franklin roosevelt famous famously met on a ship in [7:31] The north atlantic to outline a vision for the free world [7:35] after world war ii [7:37] That understanding of our nation's unique bond and role in history is the essence of our special [7:44] Relationship and we hope it will always remain [7:48] That way the ship where the two great leaders met was called the prince of wales [7:56] The very title that his majesty the king held longer than any other individual in british [8:02] History and he held it with great pride and respect [8:08] It said that when prime minister churchill first met this future king many decades ago [8:14] He was so impressed he made the statement. He is so young to think so much and so well [8:24] and [8:26] the bust of [8:28] Your great prime minister [8:31] Rests proudly again in the oval office. We're very proud to bring it back [8:37] We brought it back throughout his majesty's life [8:42] The world has witnessed that same thoughtfulness which first struck britain's greatest prime minister [8:49] His majesty's intellect passion and devotion [8:54] Have been a long really a long a blessing blessing to the british people [8:59] But not only to his own country [9:03] But to the cherished bond between the united states and the united kingdom [9:08] And i am very certain that it will continue that way long into the future [9:17] In a few hours his majesty will stand in the heart of the united states capital [9:24] As the very first british king ever to address a joint session of the [9:33] United states congress so he's going to be addressing [9:37] Congress and i'm going to be watching [9:40] I was thinking of going but they said i don't know that might be a step too far. I would love to go [9:47] It's not supposed to be protocol, but I would love to be with you [9:50] But there the direct descendant of king george the third will speak [9:57] to the direct successor of the very body that gathered in independence hall on july 4th 1776 [10:07] if john adams and george washington or the king's fifth great grandfather [10:12] Could see that site they might be absolutely shocked but probably only for a moment [10:20] Surely they would be delighted that the wounds of [10:25] War healed into the most cherished friendship think of that very very long ago difficult war [10:34] And yet those wounds did indeed heal into the most cherished of friendships most cherished [10:40] They would be moved beyond words to know that the soldiers who once called each other redcoats and yankees [10:49] Became the tommies and the gis who together saved the free world [10:53] As brothers in arms and brothers in eternity and nobody fought better together [10:59] Than us if they could see us today [11:04] Our ancestors would surely be filled with awe and pride that the anglo-american revolution in human freedom [11:12] was never ever [11:14] Extinguished but carried forward across centuries across oceans and across history [11:19] Until it became a fire that lit the entire world [11:24] So today we look back on [11:28] 250 years [11:30] Let us remember [11:32] What has made our countries the two most exceptional nations the world has ever known [11:39] And together let us go forward with even stronger resolve to carry on our sacred devotion [11:44] To liberty and to the traditions of excellence that have been our shared gift of all mankind [11:52] Your majesties thank you once again for making this [11:59] Important visit we are so honored may god [12:04] Forever bless the united kingdom great britain and northern ireland and may god bless [12:12] The united states of america thank you very much everybody thank you