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President Zelenskyy is not ready for Peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations,
You don’t have the cards,
he told Mr Zelenskyy – yet You are gambling with world war three,
I think he’ll keep his word
When Trump was asked if he trusted President Putin he replied I think we’ll have two deals. A deal on ending the war, and I think we’re going to end up with a great trade deal,
I wouldn’t put too much stress on one meeting, what’s important is the process. We’re at the very beginning of that and there are very basic things not yet agreed or defined.”
When there’s a Trump presidency, the rhetoric is always very destabilising, so we try to zoom out,
We’re feeling good, we’re very well prepared,
one senior UK official declared on the eve of Keir Starmer’s highly anticipated first meeting with Donald Trump at the White House If Donald Trump likes somebody he’s doing business with, it makes all the difference,
one senior government official said We’re well prepared but also aware that absolutely anything could happen. Trump is so mercurial,
We're not getting all of ours, I mean, quite a bit of ours was gifted, it was given. Mainly it was gifted, actually."
However, Sir Keir countered with It's like Keir was reminding himself: 'I must laugh at their jokes, mustn't swear, mustn't make a mess of the bathroom,
For Starmer, the move closes the distance between himself and Trump before negotiations, helping to defuse any frostiness."
We've had free speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom - and it will last for a very, very long time ... In relation to free speech in the UK, I'm very proud of our history there
I think we'll have something, maybe in terms of possibilities, agreed very shortly
Tea with a side of flattery: UK prime minister Keir Starmer visits Trump”.
Online, the newspaper covered the gathering on its front under the headline I can’t believe I said that.”
The article focused on a comment the US president made in the Oval Office when asked about the controversial slur, replying UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer arrived at the White House on Thursday bearing a special envelope for President Donald Trump − a letter from the British King Charles III inviting him to a second state visit,
Trump draws laughs with answer to question about calling Zelenskyy a dictator”.
Trump’s news channel of choice indirectly features the meeting on its online front page under the headline In Washington, Starmer deployed a mixture of flattery, deference and even a royal invitation for a state visit,
