Wednesday, April 29, 2026

In a landmark moment for transatlantic relations, King Charles III addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress—the first British monarch to do so in American history, and only the third British royal ever to set foot on U.S. soil. Albert Mohler uses this historic visit to explore the deep, often overlooked constitutional and cultural ties between the United States and the United Kingdom, tracing them from the revolutionary era through the rise of the Anglosphere. He emphasizes that while the U.S. rejected monarchy, it has long embraced the symbolic presence of British royalty as a sign of shared values and continuity. Mohler also dissects the political tensions between President Trump and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, noting that while the king’s speech was nonpartisan, the government’s stance on Iran has created friction. In a separate but equally explosive story, the Department of Justice has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on charges of wire fraud and money laundering, revealing that the group paid informants inside so-called 'hate groups'—including the KKK—while simultaneously labeling conservative Christian organizations like Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council as hate groups. Mohler exposes the hypocrisy: the SPLC’s own definition would classify the Roman Catholic Church and Southern Baptist Convention as hate groups, yet they avoided targeting them politically.