The Queen's brutal question about Trump to the Obamas… and the silent signal she sent on the day Donald arrived in the UK https://t.co/yz7wA5P3ft
— Daily Mail US (@Daily_MailUS) March 30, 2026
Queen Elizabeth didn’t get it.
In the forthcoming book, The Queen and Her Presidents: The Hidden Hand That Shaped History, by Susan Page, the longtime journalist writes that the Queen was ‘baffled’ by the rise of ‘this person’ – Donald Trump.
She put the question to President Barack Obama, who visited the United Kingdom with First Lady Michelle Obama in April 2016, a month before Trump wrapped up the Republican nomination.
‘Why is this person so close to running your country?’ she asked Obama, according to excerpts of the book obtained by the Daily Mail.
Page wrote that she posed the same question to Prince Harry’s new American girlfriend, Meghan Markle, several months later.
The Queen was aware of Trump – and how he amplified the ‘birther’ conspiracy theory against Obama.
Trump was able to build a following on the political right by pushing the idea that Obama, the country’s first African-American President, was born in Africa, not Hawaii, and was thus ineligible to serve.
The Queen worked to kill those claims.