Donald Trump Lambasted: POTUS Faces Calls to Cancel King Charles' State Visit Amid 'Rogue' Claims

Donald Trump faced fresh calls in Britain to have King Charles's planned state visit to the United States cancelled after former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas used a live Sky News debate to accuse the US president of waging an 'illegal' war with Iran and behaving like 'a bully and a blackmailer'.

The clash unfolded on air as Lucas argued that sending the monarch to Washington would hand Trump a diplomatic prize at precisely the wrong moment.

Lucas was confronting former Tory MP Tom Pursglove over Britain's response to Trump's latest foreign policy posture, and the argument quickly turned into something larger than a television spat.

Caroline Lucas Says Trump Is 'Rogue' As She Urges King To Stay Away

Lucas did not mince her words. Confronting Pursglove on air, she argued that King Charles should distance himself from Donald Trump altogether, framing the president's recent actions as not only destabilising but unlawful.

'Look, this president is a bully and a blackmailer,' she said. 'A rogue president who has just launched an illegal and reckless war, who is threatening still to invade Greenland or even Cuba, who is ripping up international law and cosying up to Putin, and who is treating people like Starmer with total contempt.'

'The idea that somehow the King is going to be able to wield sufficient soft power to have real influence over President Trump, I think, is for the birds,' she told the programme.

The former party leader argued that recent attempts by British politicians to keep onside with Washington had already met with disdain.

She pointed to Prime Minister and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer's dealings with Trump as an example, claiming, 'We've seen Starmer absolutely bending over backwards to try to keep on good terms with him and he's been treated with total humiliation and contempt.'

Lucas, in her view, if King Charles travels to the US under the current circumstances, the UK will be sending the wrong signal to the rest of the world.

'We should have no part of this visit because I think the message it will send out is actually that we are absolutely happy with the kind of approach that President Trump is taking,' she said.

Pursglove Defends US Alliance As Trump Faces 'Rogue' Claims

Tom Pursglove, who previously served as a Conservative MP, pushed back firmly. For him, scrapping a royal visit because of opposition to Donald Trump would be an act of self‑harm by Britain.

'The US is our most important ally in the world. Whoever is in the White House, it's critical that we have those relationships,' Pursglove argued.

Lucas interrupted to insist that the president was 'going rogue', but Pursglove held his line that the United Kingdom could not afford to let short‑term political storms derail its core alliances.

'But the choice that you would make, Caroline, would be to cancel the state visit, which I think would only damage relationships further. I just think that would be completely the wrong thing to do,' he replied.

Lucas, however, was not persuaded that royal diplomacy would repair anything. She warned that sending King Charles to meet Donald Trump could backfire, just as she believes British political leaders have already been slighted.

'I don't think we're going to improve the relationship any better by sending the King off there,' she said. 'If anything you could well have a situation where Trump starts to turn on the King as well as Starmer.'

Lucas sketched her preferred foreign‑policy posture for Britain in the Trump era. 'I believe we should be conveying a message that we are standing with our true allies – right now that seems to be the European countries and nations like Canada – not getting cosy with a president who is overseeing an absolutely illegal war and threatening to invade his neighbours.'