One of many ways Britain sought to puff up President Donald Trump during his state visit was with flattering echoes of the prime minister whom he most admires: Winston Churchill .

King Charles III served his banquet guest Pol Roger champagne, of which Churchill generally drank a pint every lunchtime. Trump, toasting the king, responded by mentioning that he’d restored a “beautiful bust” of Churchill to the Oval Office , from which President Barack Obama , who viscerally dislikes Britain, removed it in 2008 and sent it into storage.

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