By GB News (World News) | Created at 2025-01-26 08:31:12 | Updated at 2025-01-27 05:48:15
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Donald Trump has said he plans to call Sir Keir Starmer in the next 24 hours after it emerged the Prime Minister has been waiting for days to speak to the newly inaugurated President.
In the first few days of his office, it emerged the 47th US President had already reached out to a number of global leaders, including Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, El Salvador leader Nayib Bukele and Chinese President Xi Jinping but not the British PM.
However, Trump has now said he plans to call Starmer praising him for having "done a very good job" so far and adding they "get along well" despite the Labour leader being "liberal, which is a little bit different from me".
The US President added that Starmer was a "good person", and said he "represented his country in terms of his philosophy".
"I may not agree with his philosophy but I have a very good relationship with him," Trump added.
'I may not agree with his philosophy but I have a very good relationship with him,' Trump said on Starmer
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Speaking to reporters on Air Force One, the newly elected President revealed that his first international trip would be either to the UK or Saudi Arabia - which is where he first travelled in his first term.
“Traditionally it could be UK,” he said, although in his last term, he travelled to Saudi Arabia because it agreed to buy billions of dollars worth of US merchandise.
Trump said: "If that offer were right, I'd do that again.”
Elon Musk, who has played a big role in Trump’s reelection and presidency so far, has been one of the loudest voices against Starmer and has repeatedly called for him to be replaced.
The US President has also spoken to Jordan’s King Abdullah on Saturday, where he urged the King to take more Palestinians from Gaza.
"I said to him I'd love you to take on more because I'm looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it's a mess, it's a real mess. I'd like him to take people."
He also said he would like Egypt to take people from Gaza, adding he would speak to President Abdel Fattah al Sisi on Sunday.
Trump called Gaza a “demolition site” where “people are dying”
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