President Trump and the First Lady are now wheels up after a whirlwind trip the United Kingdom, where they were wined and dined by King Charles himself. It wasn’t all pomp, of course, with the president meeting Thursday with U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer to hammer out a trade deal being called the U.S. – U.K. Tech Prosperity Deal.
Following the signing of the deal, Trump and Starmer held a joint press conference, where they were peppered with questions about trade, the Russia-Ukraine war, the Biden autopen scandal, and the designation of Antifa as a terrorist organization by the Trump administration. It got a little bit spicy when Starmer was pressed about free speech crackdowns in his nation, then was outright asked if Great Britain was still a Christian country. You can watch the entire thing on the White House YouTube page.
President Trump broke some news during the presser by dropping this little nugget: he’s actively working to reclaim Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan from the Taliban. “We’re trying to get it back,” the president said. “We’re trying to get it back because they need things from us.” He added, “We want that base back, but one of the reasons we want the base is, as you know, it’s an hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.”