Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage met with US President Donald Trump this week, and a telling photograph of the pair emerged, with an expert claiming it shows ‘little signs of friendship’
12:24, 04 Sep 2025Updated 14:20, 04 Sep 2025
Nigel Farage with Donald Trump in the Oval Office(Image: X)
Nigel Farage has shown ‘little signs of friendship’ with Donald Trump in a photo that emerged this week, an expert has observed.
On Wednesday, September 3, the Reform UK Leader met with the US President for lunch following a Congressional hearing in Washington, where they discussed freedom of speech rules. During the hearing, Farage was repeatedly asked questions about the Epstein Files and whether he was in favour of them being published, to which a US Congressman said might be “awkward for your lunch” with Trump.
While it’s unclear what Farage went on to say to Trump when they met for lunch, Farage promised he wouldn’t badmouth Britain to the leader of a foreign country. However, what emerged from their meeting in the Oval Office was a telling and rare photograph of the leaders together, prompting a new insight into their relationship or lack of.
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The Reform UK Leader confirmed he was having lunch with the US President after the Congressional hearing(Image: Getty Images)
Analysing the photo with a grinning US president, body language expert Judi James exclusively told the Mirror: “This looks so much like Farage’s ‘Taking a selfie with a star’ moment as he stands to attention alongside a grinning Trump, looking faintly awkward, as though he’s edged his way into the shot.”
James continued: “There are no actual body language signs of friendship between the two men here apart from proximity. Nigel needed to relax his pose a little to suggest a more informal sense of ease that might reflect either genuine closeness and a meeting of minds or even a more even power balance between one leader to a potential other. Maybe he should have tried one hand in his pocket or even his arms folded and a cheeky grin? Something that says ‘The next UK PM’ if that’s his intention?
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“Instead, Farage’s pose suggests he’s in awe of the President here but very much on ‘Team Trump’ while Trump himself sports his signature ‘camera smile’ or as it would be known over in the UK, his best ‘cheesy grin’.”
Furthermore, in Farage’s Congressional hearing in Washington on Wednesday, he was branded a “far-right politician” who leads a “fringe party”. Democrat ranking member Jamie Raskin also said he was a “Putin-loving free speech imposter” and a “Trump sycophant”.
Nigel Farage at the US Congress inquiry into freedom of speech in Washington, DC(Image: Getty Images)
Raskin said, ahead of Farage’s evidence, “Mr Farage seems most at home with the autocrats and dictators of the world.
“To the people of the UK who think this Putin-loving free speech imposter will protect free speech, come over to America and see what Donald Trump is doing in this country.”
“You might think twice before you let Mr Farage make Britain great again.”
Farage said he wanted to bring Lucy Connolly to Washington DC as “living proof of what can go wrong” with free speech.