Trump may have the last laugh on traitor Prince Harry

I’ve witnessed some incredibly overexcited people in my life.

But for sheer unbridled joy, I’ve never seen anything to quite match Donald Trump’s beaming face when he returned to Air Force One after meeting Queen Elizabeth II for the first time, at Windsor Castle.

I was waiting to interview him aboard the US presidential plane, and he bounded into the Situation Room with a massive grin on his face.

“Piers, your Queen is FANTASTIC!” he bellowed ecstatically. “She’s a fantastic woman; so much energy and smart and sharp. She was AMAZING! Such a wonderful lady and so beautiful! It was such an honor to finally meet her. To have a Queen like that is great. She is so sharp, so wise, so beautiful. She’s a very special person!”

The reason for his extraordinary enthusiasm became clear when I asked him what went through his mind as he walked toward Her Majesty, and he replied: “I was thinking about my mother. My mother passed away a while ago and she was a tremendous fan of the Queen. She thought she was a woman of elegance, and my mother felt she was a great woman. I said to Melania, ‘Can you imagine my mother seeing this scene?’ The Queen is terrific. She is so sharp, so wise. She’s a very special person. I said to her, ‘You know, my mother was your big fan. She was born in Stornoway in the Hebrides.'”

Trump’s reverence for the Queen dates back to 1953, when he sat with his mother to watch the coronation on their new TV set in New York.