{"id":14296,"date":"2018-07-14T13:44:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T13:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=14296"},"modified":"2018-07-14T13:52:27","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T13:52:27","slug":"trump-scrambles-to-mend-bruised-us-uk-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/trump-scrambles-to-mend-bruised-us-uk-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Scrambles to Mend Bruised US-UK Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump’s first official visit to the UK after assuming office comes between a NATO summit in Brussels and a meeting on Monday in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/strong><\/p>\n

During a brief visit to Britain, on the heels of a tense NATO summit in Brussels, Trump scrambled to undo the damage caused by an interview in which he questioned UK Prime Minister Theresa May\u2019s Brexit plans, warning they might hamper a bilateral trade deal with the United States, The Independent wrote.<\/p>\n

At a joint news conference with May after the two had held one-on-one talks at the PM’s Chequers country retreat 40 miles from London, Trump heaped praise on May calling her \u201csmart\u201d, \u201ctough\u201d, \u201ccapable\u201d and \u201cincredible.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would much rather have her as my friend than my enemy,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mentioning reports he had heard about May\u2019s EU withdrawal plan threatening to torpedo a proposed trade deal between the two countries, Trump noted that, after reading May\u2019s Brexit white paper, and being brought \u201cup to speed\u201d by the prime minister, he was convinced that such a deal \u201cwill absolutely be possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump described Brexit as a “very tough situation\u2026 between the borders and the entries into the countries and all of the things.”<\/p>\n

He said that a US-UK trade deal “will absolutely be possible, hours after he told The Sun Theresa May’s Brexit plan could kill an agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing I ask is that she works it out so that we can have very even trade.”<\/p>\n

He also described the UK-US relationship as the \u201chighest level of special.\u201d<\/p>\n

May, for his part, said the US was “keen” to do a deal with the UK, adding that Britain \u201cwill do a trade deal with them and with others around the rest of the world.”<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we prepare to leave the European Union, we have an unprecedented opportunity to do more. It\u2019s an opportunity to reach a free trade agreement that creates jobs and growth here in the UK and right across the United States,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She insisted that the government’s Brexit agreement harshly criticized by supporters of a “hard Brexit,” fully \u201cdelivers” on the referendum vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US President Donald Trump’s first official visit to the UK after assuming office comes between a NATO summit in Brussels and a meeting on Monday in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin. During a brief visit to Britain, on the heels of a tense NATO summit in Brussels, Trump scrambled to undo the damage caused …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis--"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14298,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14296\/revisions\/14298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}