US President Donald Trump has said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has done a “very good job thus far” and that the pair have a “very good relationship”.
Asked by the BBC on board Air Force One about his relationship with Sir Keir, Trump added that they would be having a call “over the next 24 hours”.
Trump and the Labour leader have met on a number of occasions, including a visit by Sir Keir to Trump Tower in New York during the presidential campaign.
Tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk, however, has been strongly critical of Sir Keir and has repeatedly called for his removal from office.
“I get along with him well. I like him a lot,” Trump said of Sir Keir.
"He’s liberal, which is a bit different from me, but I think he’s a very good person and I think he’s done a very good job thus far.
"He’s represented his country in terms of philosophy.
“I may not agree with his philosophy, but I have a very good relationship with him.”
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[Foreign Secretary] Lammy has described his own criticism of the president, made when he was a backbencher, as “old news”.
In 2018 he described Trump as a “tyrant” and “a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath” but the foreign secretary has since had dinner with him alongside the prime minister.
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So what does Trump want from Starmer?
Probably thinks that Starmer will just overrule government objections to their poor meat standards…Missing the point that he doesn’t really have the ability to override things like that.
Even if he could overrule health and safety laws there’s absolutely no reason for him to do that. Increasing trade with the European Union just makes the likes of Reform look weaker while at the same time not giving the general public yet another reason to dislike him.
Allowing US meat byproducts into the supermarkets is a lose-lose situation.
When this first started getting discussed long ago, I made a decision that if the shitty US-standard meat ever got legalised in the UK without massive “this is chlorine-washed/etc.” stickers, I’d just give up on meat. Not worth the faff.
I couldn’t think of a worse insult.
Could have invited him around for dinner I suppose 🤣
I think they’ve already done that 😁
I’m getting whiplash from the Republicans remarks about Labour/Starmer.
One minute he’s a dangerous far-left communist who facilitates the rape of young white girls, the next he’s “doing a good job”.
Perhaps his advisers are saying not to provoke Starmer too much because it might drive a wedge between the US and UK.
I think the problem is that the Republicans are a bunch of loose cannons, so there likely isn’t a consistent position on more peripheral matters like the UK.
I also wouldn’t be surprised if Orange Shitler was confused and didn’t have a clue who he was talking about so just said some random platitudes. We’ll have to judge him on actions not words.
I mean words too. He’s the president, he should be able to string two coherent sentences together, but he can’t
The bar was set very low…
One minute he’s a dangerous far-left communist who facilitates the rape of young white girls, the next he’s “doing a good job”.
That was Muskler.
Perhaps his advisers are saying not to provoke Starmer too much because it might drive a wedge between the US and UK.
🤣🤣🤣 Yeah, right.
Yeah the US better watch out or… er… else
They must be absolutely terrified of us
Nobody is saying that the US is afraid of us, that’s just a strawman.
What my comment was saying is that the US would rather have more access to UK markets than less, and if they feel giving empty platitudes makes that more likely, they’ll do it.
Any politician will put out a milquetoast praise of another leader (particularly if they’re an ally) if they think there’s even a slight chance it will benefit from it.
That’s why people praised Trump when he won. Very few leaders actually have any love for him.
I don’t think anyone in the Trump administrator is really a big thinker when it comes to international economics otherwise they wouldn’t be messing around with this utterly self-destructive tariff idea.
Republicans are morons but even they can grasp that countries buying from them is good for them.
He dropped the “let’s put heavy tariffs on China” after he won the election. It was nationalist grandstanding for his campaign that he has reversed course on now.
We’re coming for back-taxes.
250 years of interest too.
Anything or anyone that Trump likes should probably be investigated
“Very good”, “great” and “fantastic” are the only descriptions this guy knows.
That’s because he has the vocabulary of a particularly thick 12-year-old.
“they are bad guys and they are doing bad things, very bad things”
Bigly
Muchly
Well, now I’m worried.
Saw something yesterday saying he wanted a regime change in the UK. This is him just confusing those of us who’s opinion of stammer went up off the back of yhat statement
Let’s stop posting any article that begins with “Trump says”. We’ll all be better off for it.
The Arc of The Republican Moral Universe bends towards Fascism, Destruction of Democracy, and Death. Whatever is said, or quoted seemingly in support of Liberal politics or politicians is simply a set up for a guaranteed later attack.
That means he is doing a terrible job.
