And all this on his first trip to the UK since his re-election, but just weeks before he makes an unprecedented second state visit here in September.<\/p>\n
The talks at Turnberry began with the spectacle of the president gushing about the prime minister’s wife, Victoria, as she stood alongside him, the entire conversation almost drowned out by a nearby bagpiper.<\/p>\n
The leaders then spent more than half an hour talking one on one, before a classic of the Trumpian genre \u2013 a rolling, free-wheeling question-and-answer session with reporters, lasting more than an hour.<\/p>\n
The topic list: turbines, Germany, free speech, Scottish independence, China, the King, interest rates, pharmaceuticals. Among other things.<\/p>\n
For Sir Keir Starmer, both on and off camera, this all amounts to invaluable face time with Trump, even sharing a lift on Air Force One, burnishing a relationship as solid as it is improbable.<\/p>\n
The jeopardy for him is clear too though: riding shotgun with a free-wheeling president at ease shooting the breeze with reporters seemingly forever.<\/p>\n
Sir Keir interjected with care, to defend the mayor of London, heavily criticised by the president<\/a>, to explain his immigration policy and his outlook on Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n An earlier rolling encounter with reporters took No 10 by surprise: the prime minister’s wife, standing next to the president, perfecting her poker face as the questions \u2013 and answers \u2013 flowed and flowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And all this on his first trip to the UK since his re-election, but just weeks before he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-32429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}