This concludes our live coverage of the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:

• Todd Blanche, the former defense lawyer for Donald Trump now serving as acting US attorney general, announced two charges against James Comey, the former FBI director and deputy attorney general for allegedly “knowing and willfully making a threat to kill” the president of the United States in a social media post.

• Patrick Fitzgerald, a former US attorney for the northern district of Illinois who now represents James Comey, said that his client, “vigorously denies the charges” filed against him.

• Democrats on the House judiciary committee responded to news of the indictment by asking if charges would soon be brought against Trump for threatening them.

• King Charles and Queen Camilla returned to the White House for a state dinner hosted by Donald and Melania Trump. It was far from the first such event attended by Charles.

• The state dinner at the White House was probably awkward for UK ambassador Sir Christian Turner, who reportedly said America’s only “special relationship” is “probably Israel”, not the UK, and that it was “extraordinary” that the scandal over the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein “hasn’t touched anybody” in the US.

The state dinner at the White House was probably somewhat awkward for at least one guest, Sir Christian Turner, who was reported on Tuesday to have said in February that America’s only “special relationship” is “probably Israel”, not the UK, and that it was “extraordinary” that the scandal over the late child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein “hasn’t touched anybody” in the US.

According to the Financial Times, which obtained audio of the remarks this week, Turner made the comments in February at an event with UK students visiting Washington DC.

“I think there is probably one country that has a special relationship with the United States — and that is probably Israel,” Turner told the students.

Turner, who arrived in February to replace Peter Mandelson, after Mandelson’s close friendship with Epstein was revealed in greater detail, also said it was “extraordinary” to him that the scandal over Epstein’s powerful associates had “brought down a senior member of the royal family, a British ambassador to Washington, potentially the prime minister, and yet here in the US, it really hasn’t touched anybody”. He added that this fact raised an “interesting question” about the “different levels of accountability in our systems”.

Epstein was closely linked to Donald Trump, since the two men socialized together for nearly two decades, from the 1980s through the early 2000s. One of Epstein’s most prominent accusers, Virginia Robert Giuffre, who died last year, said in a legal complaint that she was hired away from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago spa by Epstein’s accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell in 2000, when she was 16. Giuffre also alleged in her complaint that she was first abused by Epstein and Maxwell together, and then “lent out to other powerful men”, including Prince Andrew, the brother of King Charles.

After the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had sent Epstein a bawdy drawing and note for his 50th birthday in 2003, which the president insisted in a lawsuit was both fake and did not exist, the late sex offender’s estate provided the entire bound album of birthday greetings from Epstein’s friends and associates. It included not just Trump’s note, but also a lengthy, gushing letter from Mandelson.

As he read the remarks prepared for him at the state dinner at the White House, King Charles argued for the importance of the partnership between the United Kingdom and the United States while gingerly noting the current tensions between the two countries.

At one point, after listing challenges facing the two nations, including “threats to the very international rules that have allowed us to trade”, the monarch said “those challenges encourage us to reaffirm tonight the basis on which our partnership has been built.”

“And yes, we have had our moments of difficulty, even in more recent history,” he continued. “When my mother visited in 1957, not the least of her tasks was to help put the special back into our relationship after a crisis in the Middle East. Nearly 70 years on, it is hard to imagine anything like that happening today.”

A ripple of laughter greeted that last comment, a clear reference to the fact that while, in the 1956 Suez crisis, it had been the US that refused to back aggression against Egypt by Britain, France and Israel, causing a rift, this year it has been the UK that refused to give full support to a war of aggression against Iran launched by the US and Israel.

Donald Trump offered a full-throated defense of Britain’s colonial exploitation of a large swath of the globe in his remarks at a state dinner on Tuesday in honor of King Charles, whose five-times great grandfather King George III was described in the Declaration of Independence 250 years ago as a ruler who aimed to establish “an absolute Tyranny over these States”.

“Today, most of Britain’s former colonies have no idea what they truly owe to this towering legacy of law, liberty, and British custom that they were given—we were given that and it was a great, great gift,” the president said.

King Charles and Queen Camilla have returned to the White House for a state dinner hosted by Donald and Melania Trump.

Although King Charles is two years younger than Trump, he has been coming to the White House for decades, in the company of multiple presidents.

As the White House chief photo editor Patrick Witty pointed out on social media, the White House archives include a photograph of a young Prince Charles in a far less gold-encrusted Oval Office with Richard Nixon on 1970.

In 1985, Charles was photographed speaking with then first lay Nancy Reagan as his first wife, Princess Diana, danced with John Travolta.

Twenty years later, when Charles returned with his second wife, Camilla, for a November 2005 dinner hosted by George W Bush, a wire service photograph noted that “memories of the late Princess Diana are still strong” in Washington DC.

Charles shared a laugh with the then president’s father, former president George H W Bush, during his toast at that dinner.

A decade after that, Charles and Camilla visited Barack Obama in the Oval Office in 2015.

The indictment of James Comey on Tuesday for allegedly threatening the life of Donald Trump with an arrangement of seashells, seen by many as the final nail in the coffin of a formerly independent Department of Justice, comes nearly a decade after Trump threatened, in a 2016 debate, to have Hillary Clinton jailed over her use of a private email server as secretary of state.

During that debate, just two days after the Access Hollywood recording of Trump boasting about groping women was revealed, Trump threatened Clinton after she criticized him for those comments and for refusing to apologize for “the racist lie that President Obama was not born in the United States of America”.

“When you talk about apology, I think the one that you should really be apologizing… and the thing that you should be apologizing for are the 33,000 e-mails that you deleted,” Trump said heatedly.

“I didn’t think I’d say this, but I’m going to say it, and I hate to say it.,” he added. “But if I win, I am going to instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your situation, because there has never been so many lies, so much deception. There has never been anything like it.”

He then claimed that career FBI officials were “furious” that the then FBI director, Comey, had decided that criminal charges against Clinton, for her “extremely careless” handling of classified information in her emails, were not warranted.

In response, Clinton first said, “everything he just said is absolutely false” and then advised debate viewers to “go to HillaryClinton.com” for fact-checking of Trump. She then concluded: “it’s just awfully good that someone with the temperament of Donald Trump is not in charge of the law in our country.”

“Because you’d be in jail,” Trump shot back, to a mix of shock, cheers and applause from the audience.

In a short statement, Patrick Fitzgerald, a former US attorney for the northern district of Illinois who now represents James Comey, said that his client, “vigorously denies the charges” filed against him on Tuesday in federal court over a social media image of seashells on a beach that prosecutors claim was a threat to the life of the president, Donald Trump.

“We will contest these charges in the courtroom and look forward to vindicating Mr. Comey and the First Amendment,” Fitzgerald said.

In 2003, Comey, then the deputy attorney general, appointed Fitzgerald as a special prosecutor to investigate whether George W Bush administration officials had illegally disclosed the identity of an undercover CIA officer, Valerie Plame, to punish her husband, former ambassador Joe Wilson, for revealing in an opinion piece that he had gone to Niger in 2002 and found no evidence to substantiate the calim made by Bush that Iraq had imported uranium ore from Africa.

Fitzgerald won a conviction against then vice-president Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby for perjury, lying to investigators and obstruction of justice.

In 2018, Trump pardoned Libby, reportedly at the suggestion of one of Libby’s friends, Victoria Toensing, whose husband and law partner, Joseph diGenova, later worked with Rudy Giuliani to find, or create, damaging information about Joe Biden’s role in Ukraine on behalf of Trump.

Last week, diGenova, who is now 81, was sworn in to a special role at the Department of Justice, to investigate what Trump allies claims was a “grand conspiracy” to violate Trump’s constitutional rights. According to the theory, which diGenova has endorsed, a sprawling plot against Trump started with the investigation into Russian efforts to aid the 2016 Trump campaign, and included special counsel Jack’s Smith’s indictments of Trump for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election and then illegally retaining classified documents.

Democrats on the House judiciary committee responded to news of the indictment of James Comey on criminal charges, for a social media post of seashells arranged in an “86 47” pattern, a reference to restaurant slang for removing a dish from a menu, by asking if charges would soon be brought against Donald Trump for posting threats against them.

In a statement posted on social media, the Democrats, led by Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin, a former constitutional law scholar, drew attention to two statements from Trump threatening violence against his political opponents:

Trump’s DOJ just criminally indicted James Comey for a beach photo of seashells and no other evidence cited. If that’s a crime in America, then what is:

-calling the free speech of six Democratic Members of Congress “seditious behavior, punishable by DEATH”?

-suggesting a former Republican Member of Congress should have to “face nine barrels shooting at her” with “the guns trained on her face”?

Todd Blanche just said the beach-shell conspiracy “is the kind of conduct we will NEVER tolerate and we will ALWAYS investigate and prosecute.” Can we therefore expect investigations and prosecutions of these threats?

The two Trump statements referred to by the Democratic lawmakers were: a November 2025 social media post, in which he suggested that six Democratic lawmakers could be executed for a social media video informing service members that they can disobey illegal orders; and a comment Trump made in October 2024 about Liz Cheney, the former Republican congresswoman who helped lead an investigation of his failed effort to stay in office after losing the 2020 election.

In a video response to the indictment of James Comey, senator Adam Schiff, a former prosecutor who led the first impeachment of Donald Trump, accused Todd Blanche of bringing charges as part of an effort to get the job of attorney general on a permanent basis.

Blanche announced criminal charges against Comey, Schiff said, “because of seashells on the beach which he posted an image of that said, ‘86 47’, 86 being slang for getting rid of something and 47 being the number of the 47th president, Donald Trump.”

“It is an absurdity to charge someone for this,” Schiff added.

Schiff predicted that this second effort to convict Comey of a crime “will also fail, but this has, I guess, the merit, from the White House point of view of just putting James Comey through the wringer, and from Todd Blanche’s point of view, helping burnish his record of frivolous cases against the president’s enemies in order to secure the top job for himself.”

In a video statement posted on Substack, James Comey, the former FBI director and deputy attorney general, responded to new criminal charges alleging that his social media post last year, with seashells arranged in an “86 47” pattern on a beach constituted an illegal threat to the life of Donald Trump.

In a post headlined “Seashells”, Comey said:

Well, they’re back. This time, about a picture of seashells on a North Carolina beach a year ago. And this won’t be the end of it, but nothing has changed with me. I am still innocent. I am still not afraid. And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary - so, let’s go. But it’s really important that all of us remember: this is not who we are as a country, this is not how the department of justice is supposed to be, and the good news is we get closer every day to restoring those values. Keep the faith.

At the end of the Department of Justice news conference to announce the filing of criminal charges against the former FBI director, James Comey, for posting an Instagram image of seashells arranged on the beach in an “86 47” pattern, taken as a threat to the life of the 47th president, Donald Trump, a reporter for a rightwing, pro-Trump outlet asked if similar charges might now follow for another critic of the president, Gretchen Whitmer.

Mary Margaret Olohan, a Daily Wire correspondent, asked Todd Blanche, Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer now serving as acting attorney general, if, according to the logic of the indictment against Comey, similar charges might soon be filed against Whitmer, the Michigan governor, over a small “86 45” pin seen on a table behind her during a 2020 TV interview with NBC news.

The interview with Whitmer was conducted weeks before the 2020 election and the Trump campaign claimed that the small pin, used by opponents of Trump to signal that they were in favor of voting him out of office, somehow meant that the governor was “encouraging assassination attempts against President Trump”, who was at that time the 45th president.

As Michigan Public Radio explained at the time, anyone who has ever worked in a restaurant has “most likely heard the term ‘86’ yelled at you from the kitchen. In the restaurant industry, the term is used to refer to dishes that are no longer available on the menu.”

As critics of the logic under which Comey was indicted have pointed out, if posting that slogan is a criminal threat to the life of the president, then the justice department should soon also be filing charges against Jack Posobiec, the rightwing Turning Point USA operative and podcaster who posted “86 46” on Twitter in early 2022, when Joe Biden was the 46th president.

In the news conference, Blanche refused to be drawn on the question of charges against Whitmer, but he also pointed out, in response to another question, that “the statute of limitations on this is five years”, which would seem to rule out charges against Whitmer, but not against Posobiec.

At a news conference on Tuesday, Todd Blanche, the former defense lawyer for Donald Trump now serving as acting US attorney general, just announced the filing of two charges against James Comey, the former FBI director and deputy attorney general for allegedly “knowing and willfully making a threat to kill” the president of the United States in a social media post.

The two-page indictment filed in North Carolina claimed Comey “did knowingly and willfully make a threat to take the life of, and to inflict bodily harm upon, the President of the United States, in that he publicly posted a photograph on the internet social media site Instagram which depicted seashells arranged in a pattern making out ‘86 47’ which a reasonable recipient who is familiar with the circumstances would interpret as a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the President of the United States.”

The number 86 can be used as shorthand for getting rid of something, and Trump is the 47th president. Comey subsequently deleted the post and apologized, saying he didn’t realize the numbers were associated with violence. “It never occurred to me, but I oppose violence of any kind so I took the post down,” he wrote on Instagram.

Blanche noted that an arrest warrant had been issued but did not know if Comey had been arrested yet.

At one stage during his just completed address to a joint session of Congress, King Charles seemed to be surprised when one line was interrupted by applause, and a bipartisan standing ovation.

The moment, which was quickly highlighted on social media by Democrats, came as the five-times great grandson of King George III noted that “the US Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances.”

A social media feed originally set up to boost the candidacy of Kamala Harris in 2024 shared the video with the barbed comment: “A literal king is showing more commitment to checks and balances than the US president”.

As the king spoke, the official White House accounts on Facebook, Instagram and X all posted an image of Donald Trump laughing with Charles earlier in the day with the caption: “TWO KINGS”.

The trolling posts come days after the president embraced a Fox News producer’s theory that the gunman who allegedly tried to kill him on Saturday had been radicalized by the anti-Trump No Kings movement.

Charles acknowledged “our differences” and “disagreements” but emphasized the countries’ shared “commitment to uphold democracy, to protect all our people from harm, and to salute the courage of those who daily risk their lives in the service of our countries”.

“Ours is a partnership born out of dispute, but no less strong for it… So perhaps, in this example, we can discern that our Nations are in fact instinctively like-minded – a product of the common democratic, legal and social traditions in which our governance is rooted to this day,” the King said.

He quoted Trump calling the US-UK bond “irreplaceable and unbreakable”.

Charles began his remarks with an expression of gratitude to the chamber and the American people for allowing him to address this joint meeting of Congress in recognition of the country’s 250th anniversary of the US’s declaration of independence (from Great Britain).

The lawmakers and guests in attendance rose to their feet in applause.

“For all of that time, our destinies as nations have been interlinked,” Charles continued. He began, interestingly, with a wry quip by the Irish playwright and novelist, Oscar Wilde: “We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language!”

James Comey has been indicted a second time by Donald Trump’s justice department, months after a federal judge dismissed its initial case against the former FBI director, a source familiar confirmed to the Guardian’s Sam Levine.

CNN first reported a new indictment had been filed.

Comey is one of the president’s most high-profile political adversaries and Trump has repeatedly called for his prosecution, including in an extraordinary public message to the then-attorney general Pam Bondi. Trump recently fired Bondi after growing frustrated with the lack of progress Bondi had made on prosecuting the president’s political enemies

Last year, the Justice Department first brought criminal charges against Comey, accusing him of lying to Congress over leaks to the press. The case was later thrown out by a federal judge, who concluded that the prosecutor handling the case, Lindsey Halligan, was unlawfully appointed.

In the opinion, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie wrote that Halligan had “no lawful authority to present the indictment” against the former FBI director and New York attorney general, Letitia James, another political adversary of Trump’s.

But the effort to prosecute Comey appears to have been restarted by the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, who is publicly angling to be appointed permanently to the role.

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Trump said the private Oval Office meeting with King Charles was “really good” and called the monarch a “fantastic person”.

The off-camera exchange avoids the fate of other foreign leaders subject to a public upbraiding by the US president and other senior administration officials.

According to the Guardian’s earlier reporting, British officials have pushed for the Oval Office meeting between the monarch and the US president to be held off camera for fear of a repeat of the scenes when Trump berated the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in front of the world’s press.

“It was a really good meeting,” Trump told reporters in brief remarks afterward. “He’s a fantastic person. They’re incredible people and it’s a real honor.”

Applicants seeking a temporary visa to the United States must now tell a consular officer that they have not experienced harm and do not fear returning to their home country, according to new guidance issued from the state department. If they answer yes or decline to respond to either question, the chance they will be denied will skyrocket.

The Guardian obtained a state department cable which instructs officers at every US embassy and consulate globally to amend their process and ask applicants to affirm they do not fear mistreatment if they return home as a prerequisite for the interview to continue.

The two new questions are: “Have you experienced harm or mistreatment in your country of nationality or last habitual residence?” and “Do you fear harm or mistreatment in returning to your country of nationality?”

The directive claims that the new process is designed to cut down on what the department claims are people misrepresenting themselves during the visa process.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is set to order early reviews of eight Disney-owned ABC stations as soon as Tuesday in a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s fight with major media outlets, a source told Reuters.

The reviews – which could lead to the FCC seeking to revoke the stations licenses to operate on broadcast airwaves – come in the wake of the White House call to fire ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel but are not directly tied to that, the source added. The FCC, an independent federal agency, issues eight-year licenses to individual broadcast stations, and has not revoked a broadcast TV station license in more than 40 years.

Trump also paid tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II, Charles’s mother, referring to a tree she planted at the White House in 1991:

Queen Elizabeth II - very, very special woman who is very greatly missed on both sides of that mighty Atlantic - long ago planted a young tree, was a very young and beautiful tree, and look at it now.

Like the US, the tree “was laid by British hands on American soil”, he said.

In the centuries since the US achieved independence, Trump added, “Americans have had no closer friends than the British”.

Donald Trump is speaking now.

“What a beautiful British day this is,” he says.

A reminder that you can watch along at the top of the blog, and I’ll bring you all the key lines here.

Donald Trump has claimed in a new Truth Social post that Iran has “just informed” Washington that they are in a “state of collapse” and want the US to open the strait of Hormuz “as soon as possible”.

Trump claims this comes as Iran tries to “figure out” their “leadership situation”, which he says he believes is possible.

We have not been able to verify the US president’s claims, and Iran has yet to comment on them.

Earlier, we reported that Trump is dissatisfied with and unlikely to accept the latest Iranian proposal to bring the war to end, after Tehran proposed a plan that would reopen the strait of Hormuz and leave discussions about its nuclear program for a later date.

The war, started by the US and Israel in late February, has disrupted global energy supplies, fueled inflation and killed thousands of people, predominantly in Iran and Lebanon.

My colleague Tom Ambrose is covering all the latest on the conflict here:

The United Arab Emirates has quit the Opec oil cartel in a heavy blow to the group and its de facto leader, Saudi Arabia, amid the global energy shock caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran.

The stunning loss of the UAE, a longstanding Opec member, could create disarray and weaken the group, which has usually sought to show a united front despite internal disagreements over a range of issues from geopolitics to production quotas.

However, the UAE’s exit from Opec, and its sister group Opec+, represents a big win for Donald Trump, who has accused the organisation of “ripping off the rest of the world” by inflating oil prices.

The US president has also linked American military support for the Gulf with oil prices, saying that while his country defends Opec members, they “exploit this by imposing high oil prices”.

More on this story here:

Donald Trump has reportedly signaled to his top advisers that he is dissatisfied with and unlikely to accept Iran’s latest proposal to end the war, which would reopen the strait of Hormuz and leave discussion of Iran’s nuclear program for a later date.

Two people familiar with the matter told CNN that Trump conveyed his views during yesterday’s meeting with top national security aides where the Iranian proposal was discussed. One of the people said Trump was not likely to accept the plan, which was sent to the US in the last few days.

It is not immediately clear why the US president is not satisfied with the proposal - but Trump has repeatedly insisted that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons – and his next steps remain unclear.

A US official told the New York Times that accepting Iran’s proposal could appear to deny Trump a victory. And while the White House declined to comment on Trump’s thinking for the NYT’s report, officials said discussions would continue over the war and Tehran’s enrichment efforts.

“The United States will not negotiate through the press — we have been clear about our red lines and the president will only make a deal that’s good for the American people and the world,” Olivia Wales, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement to the Times.

That is in line with what White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters yesterday. Leavitt did not offer an opinion on the proposal, but said that Trump’s bottom line demands (that Tehran must never have nuclear weapons) remained the same.

What I will reiterate is that the president’s red lines with respect to Iran have been made very, very clear, not just to the American public, but also to them as well.

I wouldn’t say they’re considering it. I would just say that there was a discussion this morning that I don’t want to get ahead of, and you’ll hear directly from the president, I’m sure, on this topic.

Jimmy Kimmel has refused to apologise for a joke made days before the White House correspondents’ dinner shooting in which he described Melania Trump as glowing “like an expectant widow”, after both Donald Trump and the first lady accused him of inciting violence.

On Monday Melania Trump accused Kimmel of “hateful and violent rhetoric” and “atrocious behavior”, and said it was “time for ABC to take a stand” against the comedian, who has long been critical of Trump and his policies.

The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host made the joke on Thursday, well before the Saturday attack on the White House correspondents’ dinner, during a skit in which the ABC host pretended to be the event’s MC.

“Our first lady Melania is here,” Kimmel said. “So beautiful, Mrs Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”

During his Monday night monologue, Kimmel responded to the Trumps, telling viewers: “You know how sometimes you wake up in the morning and the first lady puts out a statement demanding you be fired from your job? We’ve all been there, right?”

Kimmel pointed out he made the joke three days before the alleged assassination attempt. “Obviously, it was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they’re together,” he said. “It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am. It was not – by any stretch of the definition – a call to assassination. And they know that. I’ve been very vocal for many years, speaking out against gun violence, in particular.”

The suspected gunman who tried to storm the White House correspondents’ dinner appeared in federal court on Monday and was charged with three federal crimes, including attempting to assassinate the president.

The alleged shooter, identified by law enforcement agencies as Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old man from Torrance in southern California, was charged with attempting to assassinate the US president, transportation of firearms to commit a felony, and unlawful discharge of a firearm during violence.

The first charge carries a potential sentence of up to life in prison.

Allen was being represented by lawyers with the federal defender’s office and sat beside them in court in a blue jail jumpsuit. Three US marshals sat directly behind him during his appearance.

Allen has no record of criminal charges or a civil court history in Los Angeles county, according to a records search.

The weapons he had on him Saturday night included a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun, a pistol and three knives, according to Jocelyn Ballantine, a federal prosecutor.

Judge Matthew Sharbaugh asked Allen if he had taken any drugs in the last day or so, to which Allen responded no.

Hello and welcome to our coverage of US news as the Trumps continue hosting King Charles and Queen Camilla during their state visit.

As expected, the British royals have a packed itinerary of events this morning including being greeted by Donald and Melania Trump at the White House, signing the guest book and exchanging gifts.

Apart from the greeting, most of the events are closed to the media and Charles will be spared the potential humiliation of being upbraided in public by Trump after the White House agreed that any meeting between the two men should be held off camera.

British officials have pushed for the Oval Office meeting between the monarch and the US president to be held off camera for fear of a repeat of the scenes when Trump berated the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in front of the world’s press.

Sources involved in planning the trip say Charles will pose for the cameras at the start of his centrepiece bilateral meeting on Tuesday, but will not be filmed talking about anything substantive.

Then this afternoon, at 3pm ET, the king will address lawmakers. He is expected to allude to recent strains between the UK and US in a rare address by a monarch to the US Congress as he will underline that “time and again our two countries have always found ways to come together”.

The king’s remarks in a speech to both houses on Tuesday will come after Trump has threatened to tear up a trade deal signed by the UK and US, mocked the Royal Navy and insulted the UK prime minister.

In his speech, the king is expected to reflect that while the UK and US have not always agreed on all matters over the past 250 years, the foundations of their “democratic, legal and social traditions” – stretching all the way back to Magna Carta – are such that “time and again our two countries have always found ways to come together”.

In other developments:

• Cole Allen was accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump in Saturday when he was tackled with two guns outside the White House correspondents’ dinner.

• An FBI affidavit in support of the charges quoted from a manifesto Allen sent to family just before the thwarted attack in which he said: “I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”

• In the aftermath of the thwarted attack, three Republican senators called for the public to immediately fund the construction of the White House ballroom Trump has his heart set on. “Hell no,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded.

• During his interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, Trump repeated a false claim he has made at least three times: that the BBC used AI to put words in his mouth and alter his remarks to supporters before the Capitol riot on January 6 2021.