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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sam Kiley

The gift of a shiny gold bell from the King did not make Trump listen on Iran

Presenting the US president with a shiny bell bearing the word Trump engraved upon it could have been a master stroke of soft power diplomacy by the King. Indeed, the artefact from the late submarine HMS Trump may yet keep the US president’s sentimental affection for some things British.

However, the bauble from the wartime boat, decommissioned and chopped up for scrap in 1971, does not appear to have had any mitigating effect on Trump’s public antics – or his international diplomacy.

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