Posted on 01/25/2017 3:06:13 PM PST by markomalley
Theresa May will say that Britain and America can “rediscover our confidence” and “lead together again” in the wake of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump.
The Prime Minister will address the annual congressional Republican Retreat in Philadelphia and say that the UK and USA will “renew the Special Relationship” now that President Trump is in the White House.
Her address will come just hours before she becomes the first foreign leader to meet Mr Trump on Friday.
Mrs May will present Mr Trump with an engraved Quaich - an ancient Scottish artefact – and give his wife, Melania, hamper full of produce from Chequers including Bakewell tarts.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
She is giving a teetotaler an item that was used traditionally for drinking alcohol...usually whiskey
I had no idea Cameron was not at the helm anymore. Good riddance.
I look forward to the UK and US once again being partners.
An excellent point. The staff should do better work in UK.
Its a bad gift...unless it is actually a very old antique ..and not a replica..even then she could find something else. Alcohol took out his brother.
And giving a trim model a hamper full of food - but somebody will eat it.
The Prime Minister is welcome to take a seat on the Trump train if she would like.
Checquers thing is okay because its from home..estate..of prime minister. Queen does that too...like honey from her farm...etc..so symbolic. Not like its from krogers or walmart.
Maybe pm didnt realize alcohol is an issue for trump.
Such music to my ears.
Reagan/Thatcher II, the Sequel.
I have always loved Great Britain, well apart from the goofy Royalty stuff. But as an ally and an ancestory, how can you not love the British?
For centuries Highland chiefs would exchange them as a token of hospitality and kinship. It is a nod to Trump’s Scottish heritage. He isn’t literally expected to drink from it. Very few people drink from a quaich these days. It’s symbolic.
The symbol is for drinking alcohol...and that is a fact In history.
If betty ford was scottish would you give her... an alcoholic with treatment centers named after her... a well known whiskey drinking cup or would you find something else scottish
Better or worse than a box of DVDs that don’t work, or an iPod full of speeches, do you reckon?
Worse. Trump is known to be a teetotaler because of the effect alcohol had on his family.
But I suspect trump will go with the flow and be honored...he doesnt get to keep it anyway
I think you are overthinking this, really. Its literal use was, and is, for the drinking of alcohol, it’s symbolic, as I said, for welcome and kinship among Scottish chieftains.
I’m sure Trump will accept it in the manner it was given.
Still wondering if Whitehall had anything to do with the dirty dossier....
From the articleOriginating in the Highlands, where clan chiefs prized them as a token of hospitality, they have been used across Scotland for centuries as a cup of friendship.What do you give the man who (actually does) have everything? You give a symbol of friendship.Today it is rarely used as a drinking vessel, but rather it is a symbol of “welcome and kinship”.
Given that Mr. Trump is not (unless he were to buy it from the US government) entitled actually to personally retain a gift from a foreign leader, this sounds like an excellent choice by the British government.
Mr. Trump will do well if he finds an equally appropriate gift to exchange.
The fact remains that she is giving him an item used for drinking alcohol during Scottish history.
And it isn’t going unnoticed
For example
“It will hopefully delight the President, whose mother was from Scotland and who is proud of his tartan roots. The only trouble is that the 45th President of the US doesn’t drink alcohol. Never has.”
http://news.sky.com/story/mays-presents-to-trump-a-scottish-cup-and-jam-10742783
He can drink anything from it. Root beer, Diet Coke, milk....
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