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Trump:
US-UK trade deal 'absolutely possible'
14
July, 2018
A
US-UK trade deal "will absolutely be possible", US
President Donald Trump has said, after he told The Sun that
Theresa May's Brexit plan could kill an agreement.
Speaking after talks at Chequers, the prime minister's country residence, Mr Trump said the US-UK relationship was "the highest level of special", while Mrs May said they had discussed plans for an "ambitious" trade agreement.
US
President Donald Trump and Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May shake
hands during a press conference following their meeting at Chequers,
the prime minister's country residence, near Ellesborough, northwest
of London on the second day of Trump's UK visit. Photo: AFP
PHOTO / POOL / Stefan Rousseau
Mr
Trump and his wife, Melania, later had tea with the Queen at Windsor.
Thousands
of people have protested in London against Mr Trump's UK visit.
A
large balloon, portraying the president as a baby, has been floated
in Parliament Square as part of the demonstrations. Other protests
are taking place across the UK on Friday and Saturday.
Photo: AFP
PHOTO / Tolga AKMEN
The
Queen greeted Mr Trump and the first lady as their motorcade arrived
at Windsor Castle. The band of the Coldstream Guards played the
Star-Spangled Banner and she invited the president to inspect the
guard of honour.
Their
meeting lasted nearly an hour and was the final engagement in Mr
Trump's two-day working visit to the UK.
The
Trumps later took off from Windsor in a presidential helicopter on
their way to Scotland for a weekend stay at his Turnberry golf
resort.
Britain's
Queen Elizabeth II escorts US President Donald Trump and US First
Lady Melania Trump into Windsor Castle after inspecting troops at
Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London, on the second day of
Trump's UK visit. Photo: AFP PHOTO / Brendan Smialowski
Mr
Trump and Mrs May's talks at Chequers took place after the Sun
published its wide-ranging interview with the president in which he
was critical of the PM's Brexit plan.
But
standing alongside Mrs May after the meeting at her country
residence, Mr Trump praised her as an "incredible woman"
and a "very tough negotiator" who was "doing a
fantastic job", and said there could be a "great"
trade deal between the US and UK.
He
said: "I read reports where that won't be possible, but I
believe after speaking with the prime minister's people and
representatives and trade experts it will absolutely be possible".
Mr
Trump's first visit official visit to the UK as president took place
in between the Nato summit in Brussels and a meeting on Monday in
Helsinki with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
At
the news conference, Mr Trump said: "The relationship between
our two nations is indispensable to the cause of liberty, justice,
and peace."
He
also told reporters:
- He had apologised to Mrs May for the Sun's story - but she told him not to worry as "it's only the press"
- He had not given Mrs May advice on how to deal with the EU but "did give her a suggestion... and I think she found it maybe too brutal"
- Brexit was an "incredible opportunity" and "whatever" the UK did after it left the EU was "OK with me"
Mr
Trump described Brexit as a "very tough situation... between the
borders and the entries into the countries and all of the things",
saying: "The only thing I ask is that she work it out so that we
can have very even trade."
Mrs
May said the US was "keen" to do a deal with the UK,
adding: "We will do a trade deal with them and with others
around the rest of the world."
She
maintained the government's Brexit agreement, which has come under
fire from supporters of a "hard Brext" "delivers"
on the referendum vote.
Earlier,
Mr Trump said he and Mrs May had spoken for an hour-and-a-half at the
black-tie dinner at Blenheim Palace, which he attended with his wife
Melania.
"I
think we probably never developed a better relationship than last
night," he said.
Mr
Trump arrived at the prime minister's Buckinghamshire residence by
helicopter after visiting the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst,
Berkshire, on Friday morning.
Meanwhile,
Mrs Trump played bowls with the PM's husband, Philip May, at the
Royal Hospital Chelsea in London. She met Chelsea Pensioners and
local children.
Downing
Street said Mrs May had presented the US president with a gift of an
illustrated ancestral chart of his Scottish heritage through his
mother, and his wife with a bespoke perfume called the First Lady in
a custom bottle.
In
his Sun interview, Mr Trump also said former Foreign Secretary Boris
Johnson - who disagrees with the PM on Brexit and resigned this week
- would make a "great prime minister", adding: "I
think he's got what it takes."
At
the Chequers news conference, Mr Trump said he had been responding to
the Sun's question about Mr Johnson as a possible prime minister,
adding: "He has been very nice to me. He's been saying very good
things about me as president."
- BBC
Propaganda from Britain's Channel 4
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