Of course, there are other differences between the two. The player says, “I’ll take ‘Liz and Don’ for $400!” Alex would read, “The one who served in the military.” The winning answer-question would be “Who is the Queen of England?”

Certainly, it’s not the president of the United States. As we all know, Trump’s rich daddy got a podiatrist to write up a diagnosis of bone spurs for his son, real or imagined, which meant that he got to avoid the draft.

The queen, then princess, who had a rich daddy herself, begged and pleaded until he allowed her to enlist in England’s uniformed Auxiliary Territorial Service during World War II. She served as a mechanic and truck driver. We’ll never know if that thought crossed her royal mind as she sat beside the president during ceremonies marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

He certainly was on his best behavior and did nothing that would have turned the solemn commemoration from D-Day into T-Day.

In fact, he was relatively subdued during his entire visit to London — a state visit complete with all the pomp and ceremony that the Brits do better than anyone.

Trump, as we well know, loves pomp and ceremony. Now that he’s witnessed the spectacle that greeted him in London, do not be at all surprised if Commander in Chief Trump returns to the U.S. and insists on the creation of an elite unit, whose uniforms include the big bearskin hats that the Coldstream Guards wear. Oh sure, there were demonstrations too, complete with that fat-baby balloon, but he didn’t seem to notice.

He also didn’t seem to notice those subtle digs from Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Theresa May. Addressing Trump at her state banquet in Buckingham Palace, the queen, in her oh-so-proper way, cited the two nations’ postwar cooperation in creating “an assembly of international institutions.”

Since President Trump has trashed those very same institutions, like NATO, put that down as a sneer on the usual royal stiff upper lip. Meanwhile, outgoing Prime Minister May gave the American leader Winston Churchill’s own draft of the 1941 Atlantic Charter. That document years later became an underlying argument for the United Nations, another body that Donald Trump regularly disparages. So that was more snarkdeftly administered, of course.

It’s likely that it was so deft that POTUS didn’t even notice, but his political enemies back home could take some lessons in nuanced put-downs from those two. Perhaps it’s their British accent.

Whatever the national style, both countries are flirting with economic disaster. The U.K. has Brexit, negotiations over the bitterly contested divorce from the European Union, which is the manifestation of a harsh swing to the right. The U.S. has the prospect of tariffs, used as a weapon that does great harm to both the target nation and the one pulling the trigger.

Back to our game show: If Alex Trebek’s clue is “It’s the future of both the U.S. and U.K.,” the correct question is “What is in serious jeopardy?” Bob Franken is an Emmy Award-winning reporter who covered Washington for more than 20 years with CNN.

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Greetings from the Hemet Car Guy,

Recently we took in trade a 2001 Jaguar made in England that needed some work (as they usually do), I took it home to show to Bambi and we decided to make it our second car as we loved it’s classic look. When talking about this new acquired Brit, it got me thinking …these cars are made in a country that puts the steering wheel on the right side.
Have you ever wondered why some countries prefer to drive on the other side of the road?
I’m sure it would be easier if everyone just used the same side of the road, right? It would certainly save the automakers a lot of money.
I remember watching a documentary on the History Channel not long ago that explained this issue.
Turns out this goes way back in time, long before the car was even invented, yes, horse and buggy time.
The whole thing is traced back 6,000 years ago, during the era of the Roman Empire, who had the biggest road network at the time, which controlled a massive area that expands beyond today’s Europe.
The Romans then dictated that everyone should travel on the left side of the road since most people are right-handed and usually mounted their horses from the left.
However a couple of thousand years later, a guy named Napoleon conquered most of Europe, decided that wasn’t enough. He made everyone travel on the right side and everyone obeyed, meaning everyone but England
When England and France started establishing colonies around the world, they also brought their customs with them. That’s why countries like Australia and India are still driving on the left while countries like Morocco and Vietnam drive on the right.
Except for the United States, no it’s not because we wanted to rebel against the British, it’s because we moved a lot of cargo up and down the colonies with a team of 4 horses pulling large wagons and as most drivers were right handed they sat on the left side and controlled their horses with the whip in their right hand.
So as cars were invented the driver’s side remained on the left.

Good driving and Stay on the Right.

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