{"id":39678,"date":"2026-04-30T09:14:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/?p=39678"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:14:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:44:28","slug":"king-of-the-uk-if-it-werent-for-us-americans-would-be-speaking-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/39678\/","title":{"rendered":"King of the UK: If It Weren\u2019t for Us, Americans Would Be Speaking French"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>King Charles III of the United Kingdom said at a White House dinner that Donald Trump had recently stated that if the United States had not existed, European countries would be speaking German.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charles added: \u201cI say that, if it wasn\u2019t for us, you would be speaking French.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He referred to the French as \u201ccousins\u201d and said that the United States and the United Kingdom are very fond of them, and that all three countries are bound by shared values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donald Trump had previously said, referring to the United States\u2019 role in World War II, that if America had not entered the war, Europe would today be speaking German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he said: \u201cAnd then after the war, which we won\u2014we won it big\u2014without us, right now you\u2019d all be speaking German and a little Japanese, perhaps.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During World War II, Germany advanced rapidly in territorial expansion, but in the later stages these gains slowed and were reversed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles III of the United Kingdom said at a White House dinner that Donald Trump had recently stated that if the United States had not existed, European countries would be speaking German. Charles added: \u201cI say that, if it wasn\u2019t for us, you would be speaking French.\u201d He referred to the French as \u201ccousins\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[7755,8728,7746,8787,7553,7612,8786,7552,7724,2335,5719,5706],"class_list":["post-39678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-europe-2","tag-french","tag-germany-2","tag-switzerland-2","tag-trump","tag-uk-2","tag-united-kingdom-2","tag-us","tag-war","tag-deeyar","tag-deeyar-television","tag-deeyar-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39680,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39678\/revisions\/39680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeyartelevision.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}