U.S. President Donald Trump (L) shook hands with reporters after meeting at the Seventh (G7) summit held in Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge in Cananastis, Alberta, Canada on June 16, 2025.
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President Donald Trump’s nature of mastery and leadership style often puts global heads of state in a daze about how to seek favor with American leaders, but Britain seems to have been touched by a magic formula when winning Trump’s victory.
Not only did Britain first sign a trade agreement with the president, thus achieving lower tariff rates for automobiles, steel and exports to the United States, but it also seemed to win his victory at a more instinctive and emotional level.
Trump and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer are Group for Monday SummitAfter a formal step in the formalization of the “US-British Trade Agreement” reached in May, Trump was asked whether it would protect Britain if it was subject to further tariffs.
Trump replied: “The UK is well protected. Do you know why? Because I love them. This is their ultimate protection.”
“I just signed it, and it’s done,” the president said.
“And we have a lot of other people coming. But, you’ll find that the level of enthusiasm is very good, but the relationship we have is great.”
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a trade agreement after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to the media at the seven (G7) summit on June 16, 2025 at the Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada.
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This is not a description that many global leaders can boast about their relationship with the U.S. president. To make the situation even more rare, Trump and Steamer (leaders of the Central Labor Party with legal background) are not natural political deputy.
Trump hinted at their different ideological backgrounds on Monday but continued to show warmth to the prime minister, who stopped the trade deal, which Trump accidentally dropped the trade deal when it unveiled at the G7 summit, calling him a “friend.”
Trump joked: “We are long partners, allies and friends, we become friends in a very short time. He is more free than me.”
Trump’s praise is obviously difficult to win, it is easy to lose Former friends become enemies like Elon Musk It may prove that it is not new. Starmer did “very good” a few weeks after Trump took office in January.
“I like him very much. I like him very much. He represents his country in philosophy. I may not agree with his philosophy, but I have a good relationship with him.”
How did Britain win Trump?
There are many reasons for Britain in the President’s good books, some of which are purely opportunities, while others are through cultural customs and economic policies.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump
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First, as mentioned above, Trump seems to be real like Starmer, despite the very different background and personality.
Trump spent years in the business world building his own real estate empire before entering politics and building on his firm “America First” agenda. Starmer is a former human rights lawyer wearing pedals and modesty who oversaw criminal prosecutions before entering politics.
Trump was impressed very early in his second term Describe him as a “very good person” and he is doing “very good job”.
Second, there is no doubt that Britain is helpful to have strong cultural ties between the United States and the United Kingdom, which are often touted as creation. “Special relationship”. trump card He is a self-confessed Anglowith family connections with Britain (his mother owns Scottish heritage), he used to enjoy the British feasts, feasts and soft power.
Trump clearly enjoyed his first state visit to Britain in 2019, when the late Queen Elizabeth II hosted the president and first lady Melania Trump, apparently, when Stemmer presented him with a handwritten letter by King Charles III earlier this year, he was clearly happy.
U.S. President Donald Trump sent a letter from British King Charles to the British King when he met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 27, 2025.
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Before the UK and the United States announced a trade deal in May, Vice President JD Vance said one person was coming because he said, “The president really likes Britain.”
“He loved the Queen (Elizabeth II). He admired and loved the King (Charles). It was a very important relationship. He was a businessman and had many important business relationships in (UK). But I think it was deeper than that. Of course, there was a real cultural affinity. Basically, the United States was an Anglo country,” Vance said. ”
Third, and romantically, another reason for the UK to establish a preferential relationship with the United States is to say bluntly that although in trade, it has not yet been in the wrong aspects of Washington, despite the fact that it is foreign policy in most cases, despite the different levels of support for Ukraine and Israel.
One of the main reasons Britain was able to reach a trade deal so quickly is that it was already in good shape with the Trump administration No perennial trade surplus when exchanging goods with the United States. – One of Trump’s biggest bugs. However, the president does seem to have overlooked the fact that Britain has a trade surplus in terms of services.
When the U.S. imposed tariffs on Trump in April, Britain may also win favor when it retaliates against Trump, despite the baseline level of 10%. Instead, the British government chose to negotiate calmly rather than react to the knee, which could have been in trouble between London and Washington and Steamer and Trump.
