‘I Am Ashamed’ vs. ‘Get Over It’: British Lawmakers Debate Trump Visit<br />But a Conservative legislator, Nigel Evans, said Mr. Trump was the president of a great ally of Britain and<br />that the critics should "get over it." Mr. Trump was fairly elected, he said, adding, "I do respect that he stood on a platform on which he is now delivering." The petition, backed by 1.8 million people, does not call for Mr. Trump to be barred from Britain, only that his visit be a political one, without the involvement of Queen Elizabeth II.<br />20, 2017<br />LONDON — With thousands of people demonstrating against President Trump outside Parliament, British lawmakers on Monday debated whether to deny him a formal state visit because, in the eyes of nearly two million Britons in an online petition, it would "cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the queen." The debate was a chance for the kind of political showmanship<br />and heated language that British members of Parliament often do well.<br />There is also concern that a Trump visit would be met with large protests, comparable to 2003,<br />when President George W. Bush made a state visit and many came out to protest the Iraq War.<br />Donald Trump said that The intellectual capacity of the president is protozoan,<br />Paul Flynn, an opposition Labour lawmaker, led the argument against a state visit, citing the need to keep public trust in politicians and noting<br />that no president had ever been invited for a state visit in his first year in office.<br />Any vote would not be binding on the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, which has been firm in saying<br />that the invitation to Mr. Trump for a full state visit this year will not be withdrawn.
