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Day: April 6, 2026
US President Donald Trump has declared on his social-media website that Britain should “go get your own oil” from the Persian Gulf and sneers, “you’ll have to start learning to fight for yourself, the USA won’t be able to help you anymore.” His defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, mocks “the big bad Royal Navy” too. To judge by this warmup, the timing of King Charles III and Queen Camilla’s visit to Washington next month is unpropitious.