Trump news: US President stops in Shannon airport for meeting with Irish PM Leo Varadkar after D-Day celebrations
Mr Trump's Ireland visit includes golfing at a resort of his
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Your support makes all the difference.Donald Trump has arrived in Ireland, having attended a D-Day memorial event in Portsmouth with the Queen and other world leaders. He then headed off to play golf at his club in Doonbeg.
Prime Minister Theresa May had hosted 15 world leaders to honour the largest combined land, air and naval operation in history, with Mr Trump also holding a brief "pull-aside" meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel
Mr Trump, who met Conservative leadership candidate Michael Gove on Monday it has been revealed, has faced criticism over his claims that “big crowds” turned out to support him on his state visit while organised protests against him flopped, in the face of images appearing to showing thousands of people opposing him.
The visit to Ireland follows after Mr Trump's second state visit to London, where he was met with considerable protest — and then denied that protest was happening.
The US president met with the Queen and other dignitaries for a state banquet on Tuesday evening, with everyone dressed to impress at the formal dinner.
Mr Trump's visit to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day, while serious, also did not stop him from sending off some questionable tweets during the trip.
He will soon return to the US, where controversy in Washington has developed over the past week since he announced potential tariffs on Mexican goods.
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Mr Trump is scheduled to make a brief address at today's D-Day commemorations.
Our man on the ground yesterday, Tom Batchelor, has examined the president's claims that "big crowds" turned out to support him.
The Queen has also now arrived.
The royal Bentley rolls up to Southsea Common (Dylan Martinez/Reuters)
The leaders of 16 countries are looking on as representatives of the UK armed forces troop into the arena.
Mr Trump's contribution to the ceremony will include reading excerpts of a prayer that Franklin Roosevelt read to the US on 6 June, 1944.
The timing of the Normandy invasion during the Second World War had been a top secret. Roosevelt made no mention of it during a national radio broadcast the day before, and he used the prayer to help explain his silence.
The event will also feature testimony from veterans and a fly-over of vintage and modern military aircraft.
A tweet by Theresa May was hastily deleted after it got the date of D-Day wrong, writes Andrew Woodcock.
The social media message posted in the prime minister's name as she prepared to host international commemorations in Portsmouth, said that "Today marks 75 years since the D-Day landings".
But the date of the landings on Normandy beaches was 6 June 1944, not 5 June.
D-Day veterans receive a standing ovation from the assembled world leaders.
World leaders representing the Allied nations who took part in the D-Day landings also attended, including French president Emmanuel Macron, prime minister of Canada Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump, who is coming to the end of a three-day state visit to the UK.
Other guests included Australia's prime minister Scott Morrison, prime minister Charles Michel from Belgium, the Czech Republic's prime minister Andrej Babis and president Prokopis Pavlopoulos from Greece. Angela Merkel represented Germany.
The PM of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel also attended, as did his counterparts from the Netherlands Mark Rutte, Norway's Erna Solberg, Poland's Mateusz Morawiecki and Slovakia's deputy prime minister Richard Rasi.
They all met the Queen before the event began - a first for Mr Macron - and then posed for a group photograph with the monarch and Prince of Wales.
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