By GB News (Politics) | Created at 2025-01-20 08:48:58 | Updated at 2025-01-20 12:09:39
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Donald Trump is set to reinstate the bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office following his inauguration later today, Nigel Farage has claimed.
The Reform UK leader has hailed the President-elect, who will re-enter the White House today, as “the most pro-British president since Eisenhower”.
The bust of Churchill was removed by Joe Biden’s team in a redecoration of the Oval Office following his 2021 inauguration.
It was replaced by one of Robert Kennedy, and it later emerged in 2023 that the bust of the wartime leader had been relocated to Biden’s private dining room.
Donald Trump is set to reinstate the bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office following his inauguration
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Trump owns the 18-hole Trump International Golf Links course in Aberdeenshire, as well as the Trump MacLeod House and Lodge
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He said that Trump has lots of investments in the UK, and also “loves the royals on a level you can’t even believe”.
Trump owns the 18-hole Trump International Golf Links course in Aberdeenshire, as well as the Trump MacLeod House and Lodge.
Farage said that most of the music played at his rallies comes from British artists, adding: “I mean this is a very very very very Anglophile president and half his cabinet feel the same way as well.
“This is a huge opportunity for us. We must not blow it,” he stressed.
Within hours of his first inauguration, Trump returned the bust to the Oval Office after hinting during his campaign that he would reinstate the statue.
Farage called Trump the 'most pro-British President since Eisenhower'
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Within hours of his first inauguration, Trump returned the bust to the Oval Office after hinting during his campaign that he would reinstate the statue
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Obama’s choice to remove it drew criticism, with then London Mayor Boris Johnson stating that the move was a “snub to Britain” which had been fuelled by Obama’s “ancestral dislike of the British Empire”.
The 44th President later said he had a second bust of Churchill which he kept in his private quarters.
When news emerged that the bust had been ditched once more, this time by Biden, Downing Street said it was up to the President to decide how he decorates the Oval Office.
The spokesman of Johnson, who was then-Prime Minister, said: “The Oval Office is the president’s private office, and it’s up to the President to decorate it as he wishes.
“We’re in no doubt about the importance President Biden places on the UK-US relationship, and the Prime Minister looks forward to having that close relationship with him.”
