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<\/p>\n\u201cIt helped to get me elected,\u201d Trump said, adding that he won younger US voters with his posts on the platform. He said the outcome of the negotiations would be that it would be owned by \u201call-American\u201d investors, but he did not say whether this would only apply to the US subsidiary.<\/p>\n
The remarks came at closing phase of a two-night visit that included a carriage procession, a military parade, a state banquet, a visit to the tomb of Queen Elizabeth II and an overnight stay at Windsor Castle for Trump and his wife, Melania.<\/p>\n
The state visit \u2013 the first time a US president has been given the honour twice \u2013 included investment pledges from US companies worth billions of dollars, with a big focus on building data centres to power artificial intelligence services.<\/p>\n
On Ukraine, the two leaders appeared to be aligned after Trump repeated his complaints about European countries buying Russian oil at the same time they asked the US to apply more economic pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the price of oil comes down, Putin\u2019s going to drop out. He\u2019s going to have no choice. He\u2019s going to drop out of that war,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
He added that he had been willing to \u201csanction\u201d India over its purchases of Russian oil, in a reference to his decision to apply a 50 per cent tariff on Indian exports to the US.<\/p>\n
\u201cChina is paying a very large tariff right now to the United States, but I\u2019m willing to do other things \u2013 but not when the people that I\u2019m fighting for are buying oil from Russia,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the oil price comes down, very simply, Russia will settle, and the oil price is way down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump singled out Starmer for praise on this point, saying the British leader was also disappointed at the oil purchases, adding that \u201cit wasn\u2019t him\u201d but was the fault of other countries.<\/p>\n
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The biggest NATO members buying oil from Russia are Turkey, Hungary and Slovakia.<\/p>\n
Starmer placed a heavier emphasis on urgent support for Ukraine as well as sanctions against Russia when he spoke to the press conference, which was held at the prime minister\u2019s official residence, Chequers, outside London.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to put extra pressure on Putin, and it\u2019s only when the president has put pressure on Putin that he\u2019s actually shown any inclination to move,\u201d said Starmer. \u201cSo we have to ramp that pressure up.\u201d<\/p>\n
The UK leader listed recent Russian moves including the damage and bombing of the British Council office in Kyiv, the European Union embassy in the same city, the attack on a Ukrainian ministerial office and the incursion of Russian drones into Polish territory as examples of Russian tactics that needed to be stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you put that together, what you can see is either an emboldenment or at least an increased recklessness on Putin\u2019s part,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Trump said Ukraine was heading to a \u201cthird world war\u201d but did not pose a direct threat to America.<\/p>\n
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The joint press conference was marked by a cooperative approach from Trump and Starmer, without a clash between the US president and the media.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n
The press conference was marked by a cooperative approach from the two leaders, without a clash between Trump and the media.<\/p>\n
Starmer expressed his condemnation of the murder of American conservative Charlie Kirk last week and insisted that the UK would defend free speech, while Trump repeated his opinion that late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel deserved to be taken off the air.<\/p>\n