Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Donald Trump dominating the meeting with Prime Minister Starmer

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer caught up with President Donald Trump during the US leader's trip to Scotland, with experts claiming Trump dominated the exchange.

Trump reportedly expressed concerns about the region's wind farms, weighed in on London's 'terrible' mayor, and offered Keir Starmer political advice ahead of the next election.

UK correspondent Enda Brady unpacked the exchange further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the brady Ow UK correspondents with us, Hey, Inda.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey Heather, great to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Why do you reckon Trump made Stama look like a visitor.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Well, it was just the optics of everything really, you
know the fact that it was that Trump's golf course
in the ballroom, and this is the British Prime Minister
on British soil, and yet everything was led by the
American president. So I guess anyone who thought it was
going to be in any way different, you know, more
fool them. So Trump basically led the way, offered loads

(00:32):
of opinions, did not stop talking, and weighed in on
absolutely everything. So we have a lot of wind energy
in the UK, wind farms, and he referred to them
as windmills. He doesn't like them because he can see
them from one of his golf courses. And then he
weighed in on the Mayor of London, who is labor
through and through Sadik Khan. He described them as a
terrible person doing a terrible job, and Starmers sitting there

(00:55):
for a few seconds and thinking in his head, I
need to say something here, and all Starmer could come
out with was well, actually he's a friend of mine,
and Trump just kept going on and he's even offered
some advice about how to win the next election and
see off Niger Farajan reform. So apparently cut taxes and
stop the boats and that's pretty much what needs to

(01:16):
happen in the next four years. So he got that right, Trump.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
So I mean it is kind of awkward though, isn't
it that Keirstamer went all the way to Scotland to
visit Trump and then he misses out on the victory
parade that's happening back in London.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yes, So the Lionesses, this is the England women's football team.
They have made history. They have retained their European Championship title.
They beat the World champions Spain the other night in
Switzerland on penalties, and they made history because no England
team has ever at senior level won tournament on foreign soil.
The men won the World Cup in sixty six and

(01:50):
the last time the women won the Euros four years ago,
that was at Wembley. So they've made history. They were
invited to Downing Street last night and you go to
Downing Street you want to meet the Prime Minister, the
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner was there because mister Starmer
was too busy with President Trump.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Awkward and okay, what do you make of this fringe
town wanting to find the people.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Shirtless men and bikini clad women who go into supermarkets.
I agree wholeheartedly with the mayor of Le Sable. Dolon
is a beautiful little resort in the west of France.
It's on the sea side, and the mayor points out
if you want to go topless as a man, shirtless,
if you want to be in a bikini as a woman,
we've got nine kilometers of beach, go down there. They

(02:37):
say it's unhygienic having people shirtless and bikini clouds in markets.
Fine food, No, And you know what, I'm going to
sound like an awful snob here, Heather, I completely agree
with the mayor. If you're on holidays, you don't want
to see beer bellies as you're stocking up on your olives.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
And the only thing you can look at. I mean,
some of them have got bodies like like I don't know,
hindle and that's not a bat.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
And also come on, get back to me on that.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Yeah, well, what about if they're down at the beach
and they're having a great time. Like geez, I'm really thirsty.
I'm just gonna nip into that supermarket and get myself
a bottle of water. But I didn't bring my top
with but it's I'm just gonna nip in. You really
don't want there.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
You're getting a two hundred dollars fine in this town
if you do this from now on. They've had enough.
The only thing I'm not this sounds very stereotypical. The
only thing I'm not surprised about is that the French
haven't managed to go on strike about this, but the
mayor has. The mayor has had enough. He's spoken out
and look he you know, these are politically elected people,
so the people of the town have clearly had enough

(03:37):
of tourists wearing very little wandering around their supermarkets. So
hence he's brought in this policy. I say, my take
my top off to him.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Yeah, good on your in the look after yourself.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Thanks mate.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
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