{"id":3050,"date":"2025-01-26T03:28:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T03:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/trump-says-keir-starmer-doing-very-good-job\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T03:28:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T03:28:56","slug":"trump-says-keir-starmer-doing-very-good-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/trump-says-keir-starmer-doing-very-good-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says Keir Starmer doing &#8216;very good job&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump says Keir Starmer doing &#8216;very good job&#8217;<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"image-block\" class=\"ssrcss-1qlkdz0-ComponentWrapper-FullWidthWrapper ey0461q0\">\n<figure class=\"ssrcss-1vfya96-StyledFigure e34k3c22\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-ab5fd8-StyledFigureContainer e34k3c21\"><span class=\"ssrcss-fmt1c3-Placeholder etlorgc0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/240\/cpsprodpb\/923b\/live\/a40edfb0-db8b-11ef-902e-cf9b84dc1357.jpg.webp 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ep2nwvo1\">\n<div>\n<ul role=\"list\" class=\"ssrcss-1ik71mx-MetadataStripContainer eh44mf03\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-13nu8ri-GroupChildrenForWrapping eh44mf02\">\n<li role=\"listitem\" class=\"ssrcss-30fcoe-MetadataStripItem eh44mf01\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-m5j4pi-MetadataContent eh44mf00\"><span class=\"ssrcss-1pvwv4b-MetadataSnippet e4wm5bw3\"><span class=\"ssrcss-1if1g9v-MetadataText e4wm5bw1\"><time data-testid=\"timestamp\" datetime=\"2025-01-26T02:18:29.419Z\">26 January 2025, 02:18 GMT<\/time><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/div>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-13mf69a-MetadataSnippetWrapper ek9haql0\"><span class=\"ssrcss-1pvwv4b-MetadataSnippet e4wm5bw3\"><span class=\"ssrcss-1if1g9v-MetadataText e4wm5bw1\"><time data-testid=\"timestamp\" datetime=\"2025-01-26T02:38:17.364Z\">Updated 46 minutes ago<\/time><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\" class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper ep2nwvo0\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-7uxr49-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">US President Donald Trump has said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has done a &#8220;very good job thus far&#8221; and that the pair have a &#8220;very good relationship&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked by the BBC on board Air Force One about his relationship with Sir Keir, Trump added that they would be having a call &#8220;over the next 24 hours&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump and the Labour leader have met on a number of occasions, including a visit by Sir Keir to Trump Tower in New York during the presidential campaign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tech billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk, however, has been strongly critical of Sir Keir and has repeatedly called for his removal from office. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div 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I like him a lot,&#8221; Trump said of Sir Keir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s liberal, which is a bit different from me, but I think he&#8217;s a very good person and I think he&#8217;s done a very good job thus far. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s represented his country in terms of philosophy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I may not agree with his philosophy, but I have a very good relationship with him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Trump was speaking during a visit to the press room on board the presidential plane on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was asked about his relationship with Sir Keir after responding to a question about where he might go for the first international trip of his second term. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It could be Saudi Arabia, it could be UK. Traditionally it could be UK,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Last time I went to Saudi Arabia because they agreed to buy $450 billion of American United States merchandise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"topic-list\" class=\"ssrcss-1qmkvfu-TopicListWrapper etw6iwl1\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-113c0cq-StyledTagContainer ed0g1kj1\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-50vlbt-TopicListHeaderWrapper etw6iwl0\">\n<h2 type=\"normal\" class=\"ssrcss-ad2rmd-Heading e10rt3ze0\">Related topics<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-17ehax8-Cluster e1ihwmse1\">\n<ul role=\"list\" spacing=\"2\" class=\"ssrcss-1ujonwb-ClusterItems e1ihwmse0\">\n<li>Keir Starmer<\/li>\n<li>Donald Trump<\/li>\n<li>United States<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Published at Sun, 26 Jan 2025 02:38:17 +0000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump says Keir Starmer doing &#8216;very good job&#8217; Getty Images Anthony Zurcher North America correspondent @awzurcher Reporting from Air Force One 26 January 2025, 02:18 GMT Updated 46 minutes ago US President Donald Trump has said Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has done a &#8220;very good job thus far&#8221; and that the pair have a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/trump-says-keir-starmer-doing-very-good-job\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump says Keir Starmer doing &#8216;very good job&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk-politics","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/260web.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}