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President Trump said Friday he liked the idea of the United States joining the British Commonwealth after a report claimed King Charles III would make an offer.
“I love King Charles,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday morning while linking to an article citing a Daily Mail report that said the monarch would secretly offer the U.S. associate membership in the Commonwealth during Trump’s second state visit to Britain. “Sounds good to me!”
Trump also reposted the same report about the king’s “secret” offer of membership late Saturday morning.
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.
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President Trump on Friday said he liked the idea of the United States joining the British Commonwealth after a report claimed King Charles III would make an offer. (Victoria Jones/WPA Pool/Getty Images)
The British Commonwealth, created in 1926, is made up of 56 countries, including Australia and Canada, most of which were originally British colonies. The monarch is the head of the Commonwealth, whose maintenance was a major priority of Queen Elizabeth II.
Membership is voluntary.
The U.S. was part of the British Empire before winning independence after the Revolution.
India was the first country to decide to remain within the Commonwealth after gaining independence in 1947.
President Trump toasting Prince Charles during his first state visit in 2019. (Chris Jackson/WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Trump had a friendly relationship with the late queen and always spoke highly of her.
“I got to know her very well, and, you know, I got to know her in her ’90s, OK, but she was great,” Trump told Fox News’ Mark Levin in 2023. “This is a woman … 75 years she reigned, and she never made a mistake.”
Trump has also praised Charles and the heir to the throne, Prince William, whom he met with in December in Paris, but he had fewer nice things to say about Prince Harry and his wife,…
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