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Trump Starmer Meeting: Ukraine Talks | Aakhir Tak
Aakhir Tak – In Shorts US President Trump discussed aid to Ukraine with British Prime Minister Starmer. Trump jokingly asked, “Could you take on Russia by yourselves?” Starmer urged the US for military support to Ukraine. Both leaders emphasized the strong US-UK relationship. Starmer praised Trump’s efforts for peace in Ukraine. Aakhir Tak – In Depth US President Donald Trump and British…
So partner and I have been together a long time. We are a transatlantic household, and as such, have become very used to each other's slang from our homelands. We both come from areas that have unique dialects, and we've enhanced our respective vocabs with fun new words and phrases. Because neither of us live in our home towns any more, very occasionally we say things that no-one in our current city understands. This is how we end up in a meeting with some other people earlier today, and partner uses the word 'druthers' to my understanding, to the absolute bafflement of those we were with, and neither of us can remember who was responsible for the introduction of the phrase in the first place. Turns out it's her fault because it's USian. I'll throw in an 'on the huh' at some point in the future to balance it out :)
Boris Johnson, Joe Biden Vow To Deepen Ties In First Call: UK PM's Office
Boris Johnson, Joe Biden Vow To Deepen Ties In First Call: UK PM’s Office
Boris Johnson congratulated Joe Biden on his inauguration (File) London: Boris Johnson and Joe Biden on Saturday vowed to deepen ties and tackle climate change in their first conversation since the US president’s inauguration, the British Prime Minister’s office said. Johnson congratulated Biden on his inauguration and “the two leaders looked forward to deepening the close alliance between our…
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Boris Johnson, Joe Biden Vow To Deepen Ties In First Call: UK PM's Office
Boris Johnson, Joe Biden Vow To Deepen Ties In First Call: UK PM’s Office
Boris Johnson congratulated Joe Biden on his inauguration (File) London: Boris Johnson and Joe Biden on Saturday vowed to deepen ties and tackle climate change in their first conversation since the US president’s inauguration, the British Prime Minister’s office said. Johnson congratulated Biden on his inauguration and “the two leaders looked forward to deepening the close alliance between our…
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As impeachment inquiries heat up, president’s people are busy pursuing a counter offensive aimed at discrediting Mueller’s findings that Russia interfered in 2016 election
Ukraine is a common factor in both the impeachment hearings and the Barr investigation. The House is looking at claims that Trump withheld military aid to Kiev to force the Zelensky government to reopen investigations into unproven allegations, with Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani playing a leading part in this campaign.
The attorney general is focusing on the theory, aired on far-right conspiracy sites, and raised by Trump and Giuliani, that Ukraine framed Vladimir Putin over the US election in a complex triple-cross operation by impersonating Russian hackers.
Trump and Barr have also been asking other foreign governments for help in investigating the FBI, CIA and Mueller investigators. The US president has called on the Australian prime minister Scott Morrison for assistance, while the attorney general has been on similar missions to the UK and Italy.
And the information being requested has left allies astonished. One British official with knowledge of Barr’s wish list presented to London commented that “it is like nothing we have come across before, they are basically asking, in quite robust terms, for help in doing a hatchet job on their own intelligence services”.
Trump blasts Prime Minister Theresa May in interview published during his first official visit to Britain
By William Booth, Karla Adam and Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, July 12, 2018
LONDON--After Prime Minister Theresa May rolled out the red carpet at Blenheim Palace on Thursday night for President Trump’s first official visit to Britain, a London tabloid published an explosive interview in which Trump blasted May’s compromise, pro-business plan to leave the European Union and warned that her approach could imperil any future trade deal between the United States and Britain.
The remarks cast an immediate pall over a visit that included a lavish dinner with business leaders Thursday night and plans to meet Queen Elizabeth II for afternoon tea on Friday. It was the latest international incident to erupt during Trump’s brief sojourn abroad, which kicked off with incendiary comments that upended a NATO summit in Brussels and further strained relationships with longtime U.S. allies.
In addition to attacking May on Brexit, Trump also praised her archrival, Boris Johnson, as a potential future prime minister while attacking London’s mayor as soft on crime and terrorism.
The blunt language and harsh dismissal in Trump’s interview stunned 10 Downing Street.
May’s office did not issue a reply to Trump’s remarks but referred reporters to an earlier statement: “We have come to an agreement at the proposal we’re putting to the European Union which absolutely delivers on the Brexit people voted for. They voted for us to take back control of our money, our law and our borders and that’s exactly what we will do.”
Newspaper editors scrambled to update their front pages. “The ego has landed,” said the Daily Mirror, adding that Trump “embarrasses Prime Minister with attack on her plan for soft Brexit.” On its front page, the Daily Mail said Trump had offered “typically blunt home truths for Britain.”
In the interview, done earlier this week, Trump disparaged May’s Brexit plan: “I would have done it much differently. I actually told Theresa May how to do it, but she didn’t listen to me.”
He added: “The deal she is striking is a much different deal than the one people voted on.”
If May has Britain align its rules and regulations for goods and agricultural products with Europe, following “a common rule book” with Brussels, as May puts it, then, Trump said, that could derail a trade deal with Washington.
“If they do a deal like that, we would be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the U.K., so it will probably kill the deal,” Trump told the Sun, which published its splash at 11 p.m. in Britain.
Trump was scheduled to meet with May for talks on Friday.
“The President likes and respects Prime Minister May very much. As he said in his interview with the Sun she ‘is a very good person’ and he ‘never said anything bad about her,’ “ U.S. press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. “He thought she was great on NATO today and is a really terrific person.”
The U.S. contingent expected the story to post Friday morning and was startled to leave the dinner Thursday and see it online. Sanders told the British government about the interview but thought it would be somewhat more positive, an official said.
White House officials were scrambling for what to say to May on Friday. “There’s no way Trump will apologize,” a senior U.S. official said. “But we also don’t want to blow everything up.”
A second White House official said Trump had two days of positive interactions with May. But the official also conceded that Trump had talked about her vulnerabilities and criticized her political acumen privately for many months.
The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal conversations.
Trump also said to the Sun that he was not spending much time in London on this trip because he did not feel welcome, due to mass demonstrations planned for Friday.
“I guess when they put out blimps to make me feel unwelcome, no reason for me to go to London,” he told the paper. “I used to love London as a city. I haven’t been there in a long time. But when they make you feel unwelcome, why would I stay there?”
Trump lashed out at London Mayor Sadiq Khan, too, saying that he’s done a “bad job” on tackling terrorism and crime.
“Take a look at the terrorism that is taking place. Look at what is going on in London. I think he has done a very bad job on terrorism,” Trump said. “I think he has done a bad job on crime, if you look, all of the horrible things going on there, with all of the crime that is being brought in.”
But he spoke glowingly of Johnson, who quit the cabinet this week in protest over May’s plans for a soft Brexit.
“I have a lot of respect for Boris. He obviously likes me and says very good things about me,” Trump told the tabloid. “I was very saddened to see he was leaving government, and I hope he goes back in at some point. I think he is a great representative for your country.”
Asked whether Johnson could find himself in 10 Downing Street one day, Trump said, “Well I am not pitting one against the other. I am just saying I think he would be a great prime minister. I think he’s got what it takes.”
Trump did not have public events in Britain on Thursday. Planners have taken great care to keep him from protests.
Organizers of Britain’s nationwide protests are committed to staging some of the largest demonstrations since 2003, when hundreds of thousands hit the streets to oppose war in Iraq.
Organizers said that from the moment Trump landed on British soil to the moment he leaves, he will be met by a “carnival of resistance.” A giant “Trump Baby” balloon will fly over Parliament Square. Protesters plan to shout at Trump at places he will be visiting--Winfield House, Blenheim Palace, Chequers, Windsor Castle and his Trump Turnberry golf resort in Scotland. Others will assemble in towns and cities up and down the country.
“I’m marching because of the disdain that Trump has shown for Britain and because of his disgraceful treatment of minorities in the United States,” said David Lammy, a leading member in the opposition Labour Party.
“Whenever London experiences a tragedy, it’s also the case that Trump licks his lips and tweets,” he said.
The Not-So-Special Relationship?
By Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, Jan. 27, 2017
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s visit to the White House on Friday was always going to be more about optics than substance.
Here is the first world leader to call on President Trump--a Briton, a woman and a political conservative with a point to prove. And there is Trump, who has spent his first full week in office upending the status quo, and confounding allies and enemies alike. He, too, may want to change the message.
The duo will preen about the renewal of the “Special Relationship,” the phrase that clings like a barnacle to any discussion of British-American ties. They’ll congratulate each other on last year’s twin world-altering votes: Trump’s shock election victory and Britain’s approval of Brexit, a departure from the European Union that May initially opposed but now is entrusted to lead.
But beyond that, they will step into tricky terrain. May and Trump are not Reagan and Thatcher 2.0, no matter the British prime minister’s own breathless allusions to the 1980s at a speech to Republican lawmakers on Thursday.
“May is everything that Trump is not: a careful, low-key and pragmatic member of the political establishment with a decades-long career in elective office,” wrote the Post’s London bureau chief, Griff Witte. “She holds mainstream positions on critical issues such as trade and security that put her sharply at odds with Trump’s protectionism and isolationism.”
Facing a tough negotiation with Brussels over the terms of Britain’s E.U. exit, May needs assurances over a favorable trade deal with the United States. She may get them from Trump in a soundbite, but the actual terms of any pact will only be sorted out as Britain gets closer to leaving the European Union. And hashing that out with the Trump administration--which has already announced numerous protectionist policies and has insisted upon being “America First” in every context--may be harder than it looks.
May’s speech in Philadelphia to assembled GOP lawmakers praised the resurgent nationalism taking hold in both countries and hailed a Republican party that “swept all before” them in elections. She also did not have any meetings scheduled with Democrats, giving her trip an unusually partisan cast.
Yet in the same speech May also insisted on the importance of NATO--a military alliance Trump deemed “obsolete”--celebrated Britain’s shared values with the European Union--whose unraveling Trump has cheered--and talked about the success of the nuclear deal with Iran--which Trump wants to tear up. She insisted on the distinction between radical extremists and hundreds of millions of Muslims who are adherents to a “peaceful religion,” rhetoric you likely will never hear from Trump.
May, in effect, was defending a status quo Trump seems intent on dismantling.
Not surprisingly, May’s critics back home attacked her for “groveling” in front of Trump. Most people in the British political mainstream have been put off by the new American president and disturbed by his willful disregard for the institutions that uphold the Western liberal order.
May’s trip highlights the awkwardness of Britain’s current place in the world. May can’t sell Trump-style protectionism at home. She knows that Britain, a country of 60 million people, needs meaningful trade deals with the rest of the world in order to successfully detach itself from Europe. But her message of a “global” and “internationalist” Britain will fall on deaf ears at the White House.
“In the context of the newly developing U.S.-U.K. ‘special relationship,’ the very idea of ‘global Britain’ sounds bizarre,” wrote Post columnist Anne Applebaum. “The U.S. president’s campaign made the word ‘globalist’ into an insult. ... May’s broader ‘global’ vision is doomed, at least as long as it is tied to a protectionist and isolationist U.S. president.”