During Tuesday's meeting with King Charles III, Trump raised the topic of Iran's nuclear program. The US president referred to the conflict in the Middle East. “We're in a little Middle Eastern war right now, if you don't know that. We have militarily defeated this particular adversary and we will never let him – Karol agrees with me even more than I do – we will never allow him to have nuclear weapons Trump said.
The king's jokes about the reconstruction of the White House and references to history
The king allowed himself a number of humorous remarks referring to the actions of the American president. He referred to Trump's statement from Davos, in which he said that without America, Europeans would speak German. Charles III replied that if it were not for the British, all Americans would speak Frenchreferring to the rivalry between France and Great Britain in the colonization of America.
Charles III gave the president a symbolic gift in the form of a bell from the British submarine HMS Trump, which participated in World War II. The king added humorously that if the Americans needed to contact the British, they could simply call.
