US President Donald Trump (L) handcuffs with British Prime Minister Keer Storm, speaking to reporters after a meeting at the Seven (G7) Summit at the Seven (G7) Summit in Alberta, Canada, on June 16, 2025.
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President Donald Trump’s mercury and leadership style has left the head of the global nation on how to favor the US leader, but the UK has hit the magic formula while winning against Trump.
Not only did the UK first sign a trade agreement with the president, but have achieved low tariffs on the car and steel and exported to the states, but it seems to have won them at a more natural and emotional level.
As Trump and British Prime Minister Keer Starmer appeared in a happy mood A group of seven summit on MondayAfter taking Another step to form a US-UK trade agreement In May, Trump was asked if Britain was further protected from tariffs.
“UK is well protected. You know why? Because I like them. That’s their final protection,” Trump responded.
“I signed it and it was over,” the president called the agreement “a fair deal for both of them.”
“And many of us, others are coming. But you see, the level of excitement is very good. But the relationship we have is great.”
United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keer Storm has obtained a trade deal while speaking to US President Donald Trump newspapers during the Seven (G7) Summit at the Pomeroy Kananskis Mountain Lodge in Alberta, Canada on June 16, 2025.
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It is not a description of many global leaders when it comes to their relationships with the US president. It is even more unusual that Trump and Starmer are not natural political bedfelows with a legal background.
Trump suggested his different theoretical backgrounds on Monday but kept showing his warmth about the Prime Minister, and at a moment Trump accidentally dropped when he was unveiled at the G7 summit, calling him “friend”.
“We are very long -lasting partners and allies and friends, and we are friends in a short time. They are a little more liberal than me,” Trump joked.
Trump’s praise, apparently hardly won and easily lost Former friends turned foes like Elon Musk The vision can be established, not new. Just a few weeks after taking office in January, Trump said Starmer was doing “very good work”.
“I go well with him. I like him very much.” Trump said about the British leader: “He represented his country in terms of philosophy. I do not agree with his philosophy, but I have a good relationship with him.”
How did the UK win against Trump?
There are several reasons for Britain to be in the best books of the President, some of which are just an opportunity, and others are through cultural rituals and economic policy.
British Prime Minister Keer Starmer and US President Donald Trump held a joint press conference held at the White House on February 27, 2025, in the US, in the US.
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First, as displayed above, Trump is honestly appearing Liking Starmer, despite their different backgrounds and personalities.
Trump spent years in the business world, built their real estate empire before entering politics and was based on their “USA First” agenda. Former human rights lawyer Starmer took care of criminal cases before entering politics.
Trump was influenced by Starmer for a second period in power, Explaining that “a very good work” was “very good person.”
Secondly, undoubtedly helping the UK has strong cultural connections between the US and Britain, creating these “Special relationship.” Trump This is a self-frozen Anglophile.
In 2019, Trump visited the UK when he hosted the late Queen Elizabeth II, Melania Trump in 2019, and was clearly delighted when Storm presented a letter written by King Charles III.
US President Donald Trump held a letter from Britain’s King Charles when he met British Prime Minister Keer Starmer (not depicted) at the Oval office at the White House in Washington, Washington, US on February 27, 2025.
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Before the UK and the US announced a trade agreement in May, Vice President JD Vans suggested that one is coming, because he said. “The President really loves the United Kingdom.”
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Third, and less romantic, another reason to have a preferred relationship with the UK US is that it is not yet found on Washington’s trade issue, and most of the foreign policy, despite some differences from the level of support to Ukraine and Israel.
One of the main reasons that the UK was able to make a business deal with the US was already in good step with the Trump administration, Long -term business is not running extra when it comes to exchange of goods with the US. – One of Trump’s largest bugbears. However, the president has ignored the fact that the UK trade has additional in terms of services.
The UK Trump may have won on his favor when the US imposed tariffs on it in April, although at a 10%baseline level. Instead, the British government decided to calmly negotiate rather than having a knee response between London and Washington and Starmer and Trump.
