{"id":25611,"date":"2025-09-16T20:02:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25611\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T20:02:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T20:02:07","slug":"president-donald-trumps-air-force-one-about-to-land-in-uk-for-second-state-visit-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25611\/","title":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump’s Air Force One about to land in UK for second state visit – follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s Trump said about his second state visit?published at 20:42 BST<\/p>\n

20:42 BST<\/p>\n

\"StarmerImage source, PA MediaImage caption, <\/p>\n

The moment Starmer gave Trump the invite from King Charles III<\/p>\n

President Trump\u2019s positive words about his second UK state visit began immediately after he was handed the invitation<\/a> by Sir Keir Starmer. <\/p>\n

In February:<\/p>\n

As he was given the invite in the White House’s Oval Office, Trump told Prime Minister Starmer that it was a “great, great honour” to receive the King’s letter. “That says at Windsor; that’s really something,” he added.<\/p>\n

“We look forward to being there and honouring the King and honouring, really, your country,” he told the PM.<\/p>\n

In April:<\/p>\n

Trump told reporters: “They’re going to do a second, as you know, a second fest\u2026 that’s what it is: a fest, and it’s beautiful, and it’s the first time it’s ever happened to one person.<\/p>\n

\"KingImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n

Trump meeting his “friend” King Charles during his first state visit to the UK in 2019<\/p>\n

“I’m a friend of Charles, I have great respect for King Charles and the family, William. We have really just a great respect for the family,” he added.<\/p>\n

In July:<\/p>\n

Asked in the summer what he hopes to achieve during his visit, Trump told the BBC<\/a>: “I think I want to have a good time and respect King Charles because he’s a great gentleman.”<\/p>\n

Trump also praised Starmer, who he said he “really likes” even though “he’s a liberal”.<\/p>\n

Before boarding Air Force One today:<\/p>\n

As we reported earlier<\/a>, before boarding his presidential jet President Trump called the King “my friend” and described him as “such an elegant gentleman… he represents the country so well”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What’s Trump said about his second state visit?published at 20:42 BST 20:42 BST Image source, PA MediaImage caption,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-25611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}