{"id":267638,"date":"2025-07-16T21:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/267638\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T21:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T21:50:09","slug":"trump-dismisses-parliamentary-recall-idea-and-praises-starmers-brexit-efforts-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/267638\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump dismisses parliamentary recall idea and praises Starmer\u2019s Brexit efforts | Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump has said he does not want parliament to be recalled for his state visit to the UK, praising Keir Starmer<\/a>, and saying that, despite being a liberal, the prime minister was straightening out a \u201csloppy\u201d Brexit.<\/p>\n

Speaking in a rare interview with the BBC, the president said he had made trade agreements to lower tariffs on the UK specifically because of his affinity with Britain, saying he believed in its special relationship with the US.<\/p>\n

Trump added that he was convinced the UK would come to the US\u2019s aid if it were at war. He said: \u201cI think they would be. I don\u2019t think a lot of the other countries would be.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a special relationship. Look, that\u2019s why I made a deal with them \u2026 For the most part in terms of your competitors and in terms of the European Union, I haven\u2019t made a deal. Now the UK is very special \u2026 they have been a really true ally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump, who will visit the UK for an unprecedented second state visit in September, said he was happy only to visit Starmer and King Charles, rather than having the opportunity to address parliament, like the French president, Emmanuel Macron, did last week. Parliament will be in recess during Trump\u2019s state visit.<\/p>\n

The Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, said parliament should be recalled for an address from Trump, but the US president said he was not interested. \u201cI think let them go and have a good time. I don\u2019t want that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to have a good time and respect to King Charles, because he\u2019s a great gentleman.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump, who has been a key advocate of Brexit, suggested he did not think its potential had been fulfilled \u2013 but said Starmer was making progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, I think, I think it\u2019s been on the sloppy side, but I think it\u2019s getting straightened out. I really like the prime minister a lot even though he\u2019s a liberal. I think he\u2019s, you know, he did a good trade deal with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said he believed there was a new-found respect for him among world leaders, now he had twice won the presidency.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you do it twice, it\u2019s the big difference. I also think that over the years, they\u2019ve gotten to know me. This is not an easy crowd to break into,\u201d he said. \u201cThese are smart people heading up very, very successful \u2026 countries, you know, they\u2019re Germany and France, Spain and, yeah, big.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if he felt world leaders were being too obsequious and deferential, Trump said: \u201cWell, I think they\u2019re just trying to be nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said he was \u201cdisappointed, but not done\u201d with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, hours after he announced a military deal with Nato countries<\/a> to arm Ukraine.<\/p>\n

His announcement<\/a>, alongside the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, in the Oval Office, has been viewed in Europe as an important shift from Washington.<\/p>\n

When asked if he was done with Putin, the president replied: \u201cI\u2019m disappointed in him, but I\u2019m not done with him. But I\u2019m disappointed in him.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a deal done four times and then you go home and you see he just attacked a nursing home in Kyiv. And so what the hell was that all about?\u201d Asked if he trusted Putin, he said: \u201cI trust almost nobody, to be honest with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump also said he strongly supported Nato, saying that rather than being \u201cobsolete\u201d as he had previously said, it was now \u201cbecoming the opposite of that\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said it was \u201cvery unfair because the United States paid for almost 100% of it, but now they are paying their own bills\u201d.<\/p>\n

Asked if he believed in Nato\u2019s fundamental article 5 on collective defence, he said: \u201cI think collective defence is fine.\u201d But he later added that he believed Britain was one of the only countries that would come to the aid of the US if needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the problems with Nato was, we have to fight for them but will they actually fight for us if we had a war? And I will say this, I believe that the UK would fight with us. It\u2019s just been so many years and I really think the relationship is just a really good one.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the interview, Trump also reflected on the attempt to assassinate him, which the BBC journalist Gary O\u2019Donoghue witnessed at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, last July.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had 55,000 people, and it was dead silence. And so, you know, I assumed that they expected the worst,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so I had to let them know I was OK, which is what I did. That\u2019s why I tried to get up as quick as possible. They had a stretcher ready to go. I said: \u2018No, thank you.\u2019 I actually had a big argument with them. They wanted me on a stretcher. And I said: \u2018Nope, I\u2019m not doing that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said he did not like to spend time thinking about that day \u2013 but acknowledged it could affect him deeply if he started to dwell on it. He said: \u201cI like to think about it as little as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t like dwelling on it, because if I did, it might be life-changing. I don\u2019t want it to be that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump has said he does not want parliament to be recalled for his state visit to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-267638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114865125679688093","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}