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Please keep listening and watching. Today we are going to be talking about Donald Trump in Scotland because Donald Trump is in Scotland.

He's at Turnbury, the golf course he owns, with Keir Starmat, the British Prime Minister.

And they have just concluded, we think it's over, it does seem to be over, a long press conference in which we got all sorts of now rather

familiar Donald Trump lines, but there's quite a bit to talk about and to talk about it.

I am delighted to be joined by our political editor, Tim Shipman, who is here in the Spectator's

office. And down the line from New York, our Deputy U.S. editor, Kate Andrews.

Tim, I'll start with you.

We've had quite a few prime ministerial press conferences with Donald Trump.

And they all sort of, even though I tried to follow them closely,

they all blur into one in a strange way, didn't they?

Yeah.

I mean, they go on forever. The British press, when they are confronted with this,

can't really believe their luck because most press conferences you get with the prime minister and another leader, you get three questions on each side and then everybody goes home.

And it's colleagues of mine who are having their third or fourth question, Mr. President, and because he just keeps answering the questions. And I've, you know, I started scrolling a few notes. And now I've got a sort of whole page of A4. And there are things towards the end of the page, which he brought up at the beginning, and then it's sort of circling back and you know it's

that weave that he talks about where everything in his head is kind of pulled together you know tax

wars it's all coming from sort of a place of great instinct for trump but not necessarily a kind of

coherent strategic kind of approach so it's quite difficult for the british prime Minister sitting there to know what's coming next and to know, you know, on the one hand, Trump is busy at least mouthing some thoughts about Gaza that Kyr Starma might find useful. And then he sits there and says, well, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, is doing a terrible job. And Starrma has to sit there and say, well, he's a friend of mine. And then he says, well, you've got the greatest oil fields in the world and these horrible wind farms. And, you know, you could get a hundred times more energy out of a hole in the ground than you can have these, you know, what he called them ugly monsters. Yes. And Stama has to sit there and say, well, we believe in a blend of energy sources.

There will always be a mix here.

Yes.

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