{"id":381307,"date":"2026-01-21T00:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381307\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T00:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T00:58:09","slug":"live-updates-one-year-of-trumps-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/381307\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: One year of Trump&#8217;s second term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year in: White House visits from foreign leaderspublished at 00:30 GMT<\/p>\n<p>00:30 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1twxoxq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a1462f87-b5c0-43b2-8a08-2f7c7a8f1bff.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Bernd Debusmann Jr<br \/>White House reporter<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Zelensky and Trump\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/00350a2e-2f50-4d6f-8685-e125073cee2b.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"714\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Zelensky and Trump during their infamous February Oval Office shouting match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">President Trump has had a busy year at the White House &#8211; including with visits from foreign leaders to the White House, and occasionally to his his property at Mar-a-Lago in Florida or other locations in the US. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump began his second term of office with a flurry of visits, including from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Jordan&#8217;s King Abdullah, French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukraine&#8217;s Volodomyr Zelensky coming to the White House in the first five weeks alone. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other notable visits have included El Salvador&#8217;s Nayib Bukele, Britain&#8217;s Keir Starmer, Italy&#8217;s Giorgia Meloni and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, as well as Germany&#8217;s Friedrich Merz, South Africa&#8217;s Cyril Ramaphosa, Qatari Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa and Rwanda&#8217;s Paul Kagame. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of these visits are reflective of Trump&#8217;s foreign policy objectives, particularly the repeated meetings with Zelensky and European leaders that have focused on Ukraine, or with Netanyahu and Arab leaders on Gaza. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Others are more reflective of domestic or economic concerns. The visit by Bukele, for example, focused in part on the role El Salvador plays in Trump&#8217;s deportation agenda. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">These meetings have, for the most part, been cordial &#8211; even when clear disagreements exist between Trump and his foreign counterpart. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But as Zelensky and Ramaphosa both found, this White House is by no means shy about putting disagreements &#8211; which were once closed-door affairs &#8211; out in the open for the world to see. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year in: White House visits from foreign leaderspublished at 00:30 GMT 00:30 GMT Bernd Debusmann JrWhite House&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-381307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381307","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=381307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}