Pres. Trump jokes about the timing of outgoing U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May's departure, saying she should 'stick around' to make a U.S.-U.K. bilateral trade deal.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May is set to step down as her party's leader at the end of this week, but President Donald Trump on Tuesday morning joked about the timing of her departure saying she should"stick around" to make a U.S.-UK bilateral trade deal.
The president’s visit comes at a particularly awkward moment for May, who announced her resignation last Friday and is set to officially step down as the Conservative Party leader on June 7, just a few days after the president’s visit. "I think we’ll have a very very substantial trade deal, it will be a very fair deal," Trump said."This is something my folks want to do, your folks want to do, and we’ll get it done."
Yet, the persistent uncertainty around Brexit loomed at the breakfast. While the president has expressed his hopes for negotiating a bilateral trade agreement with the UK, the president’s National Security Adviser John Bolton said the U.S. is waiting for the UK’s planned exit from the EU to occur first.
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