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If you watch the video, you would see that the Queen looked PISSED! Does the average Briton really care that much about royal protocol? Do people often get hung up over curtseys and other formalities?

In any case, I do think both sides are to be blamed for the gaffe. The band started to play while Obama was still speaking, but at the same time Obama was disrespectful in speaking over a national anthem.

He was in the middle of his speech, and the band started playing over him. Why should he have to stop his speech because the band screwed up their timing?

Because it's not just any song; it's an anthem that represents the Queen and all of her subjects. Would Obama have talked over the Star Spangled Banner? I think not.

Having said that, I agree that the band also was at fault. Perhaps the banquet organizers should take extra precautions to make sure this doesn't happen again.

If Saturday Night Live didn't end their season, I could imagine this being the basis of a skit this weekend (except the guy who plays the queen also plays Obama... urk...) Anyways, every time Obama says "queen" a group of guests pulls out instruments to start playing the British anthem, until we have multiple bands playing over each other (and of course, playing over Obama). The final time, it's their Trump impersonator who starts playing, at which Obama pauses, looks at the jammin' Trump in bewilderment, and then continues, which gets Trump to stop playing and start criticizing him, which turns into a list of his faults, ending with, "And Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"

haha that sounds like it would be hilarious! Have you seen the SNL skit depicting the royal engagement? Fred Armisen does a great impression of the Queen!

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/visiting-the-queen/1261515/

Because it's common courtesy to shut-up and stand at attention while the anthem of your host nation is playing. It's called respect, something that was lacking on this ocassion.

Respect goes both ways, of course: it's also "common courtesy" not to start playing loud music in the middle of a sentence being delivered to a state event by a head of state. Seems to me everybody involved was trying, in good faith, to be respectful and follow protocol, and things got deeply confused and entered territory with improbably conflicting protocols. By default, cultural instincts would then guide on-the-spot reactions to the conflict. Unsurprisingly, people attuned to different cultures would have different on-the-spot reactions.

The band did not just start playing at random... They received their que. Most people give the same simple toast, "To the Queen!" When the band hears this, they play. The President was ignorant enough of protocol to put those words into the middle of his speech. He was wrong. Period, plain and simple. However... this is not truly the President's fault. It's the fault of his handlers.

1. Yes, Obama should be impeached for a faux pas. 2. Obama SHOULD NOT act inferior to the queen because he is the American head of state and we aren't a part of Britain. Monarchists make me sick.

Trump is like a child who's Crying for attention. I wonder do he Watch everything Obama Does looking for something he did wrong. SAD:(

"When in Rome, act like the Romans do." Since Mr. Obama is technically a subject of a country, whilst on foreign soil, Its just common courtesy and diplomatic to present yourself as someone lower then you actually are.

Heavens no, he is the United States President. Admittedly, he should show respect, should have stopped, stood at attention and made a joke about it after, but he doesn't act as someone lower, but as a leader who respects the leader of the country he is visiting.

That doesn't require a great deal of deference. This was a simple faux pas, an -old- news story to boot. Trump is showing a real lack of class for making a fuss about faux pas that were heavily covered in the news when it happened.

1. If presidents are to be impeached for the occasional faux pas then every American president should have faced and been convicted of impeachment. 2. It is customary convention of all heads of state to honor the traditions of greeting their fellow head of state whenever they are making a state visit to another's country. Just because Mr. Obama is respectful doesn't warrant his impeachment. Try not be ignorant.

When Obama finished his speech and raised his glass to the Queen, you can faintly hear the Queen telling him, "First the anthem." Due to the time limit, however, it looks like I can't add that crucial piece of info into the article. But I just want to mention this, in case curious readers want to glean as much info as possible about this delicate conflict between the Queen's adherence to protocol and the President's desire to finish his speech.

The media should be biased to him, he should win again.