President Donald Trump gestures subsequent to Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer throughout a joint press convention at Chequers close to Aylesbury, England, Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
AYLESBURY, England (AP) — President Donald Trump stated Thursday that he was “tremendously thankful” for the pageantry and splendor lavished on him throughout his second state visit to the United Kingdom as he wrapped up a visit that largely sidestepped main public disagreements over tough commerce and geopolitical points.
The mutual heat, alongside with Trump’s abundance of sort phrases bestowed on the host nation, steered that an all-out appeal offensive by the royal household and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had its desired impact, regardless that there was a notable lack of progress on some key issues.
Trump and Starmer signed what either side hailed as a historic settlement on science and expertise, and so they held a roundtable with international enterprise leaders the place they steered the deal might imply important job features. Among the subjects tackled principally in personal talks between Trump and Starmer had been the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and U.S. tariff charges on metal imported from Britain.
“The bond between our countries is like no other anywhere in the world,” Trump stated at a information convention at Chequers, the Sixteenth-century manor home northwest of London that serves as a rural retreat for British leaders. The U.S. and U.Ok., the American president stated, have “done more good for the planet than any other nation in history.”
Joining within the bonhomie, Starmer stated that “time and time again, it is British and American men and women, side by side, changing the path of history and turning it towards our values, towards freedom, democracy and the rule of law.”
The very finish of the journey noticed Trump’s helicopter carrying him from Chequers to the airport at Stansted for his flight to Washington make an unscheduled touchdown at a neighborhood airfield as a result of what the White House known as a “minor hydraulic issue.” No one was injured, and a backup chopper accomplished the journey.
The Trump-Starmer mutual admiration adopted King Charles III and Queen Camilla’s feting of Trump and first girl Melania Trump at Windsor Castle on Wednesday with all of the pomp the monarchy can muster, together with the most important navy honor guard ever assembled for a state visit.