Trump Welcomes Starmer To Scotland
Newscast
BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, Trump and Starmer have met in Scotland and held a joint press conference covering a range of topics from aid in Gaza and the war in Ukraine, to wind energy.
The US President met UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a golf course owned by Trump. Speaking as the two men met, President Trump said he was reducing the 50 day deadline given to Vladimir Putin to agree a deal with Ukraine to “10 or 12 days”.
Trump also said a ceasefire in Gaza is possible and disagreed with Prime Minister Nethanyahu’s assessment that there is no starvation in Gaza.
Adam speaks to Chris, James and Sarah Smith, Americast host, to explain the days events.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, so the lionesses have been in Downing Street celebrating their European win over Spain in Switzerland on Sunday night. |
| 0:12.4 | But which member of the newscast opening titles do they have a link with today? |
| 0:19.5 | Okay, that's long enough to think about it. |
| 0:21.4 | It's Shania Twain because she is tweeted over the weekend. |
| 0:24.5 | So happy for the lionesses. |
| 0:26.1 | Let's expletive go girls, which, as we know, is one of Shania Twain's best songs. |
| 0:32.7 | Right, let's hear all the other people in the opening titles of Newscast as we get ready to do this episode, |
| 0:37.7 | which is going to focus on Donald Trump's really quite intense visit to Scotland. |
| 0:42.7 | Newscast. |
| 0:43.3 | Newscast from the BBC. |
| 0:45.0 | He has just compared me to the fat controller. |
| 0:48.0 | Did I say that? |
| 0:49.4 | I can't believe I said that. |
| 0:50.9 | Next question. |
| 0:51.7 | This is R for the benefit of Earth. |
| 0:55.5 | I'm not personally a huge Sabrina Carpenter fam. I don't think I'm being rude. I like landscapes. Take me down to Downey Street. |
| 1:01.5 | Let's go have a tour. Blimey. Hello, it's Adam in the Newscast studio, not the normal one. I'm in |
| 1:07.5 | Solford at the BBC's base here, which just adds to the kind of chaos that you're now going to experience on this episode of newscast as we chart Donald Trump's supposedly a private visit to Scotland, which has ended up being very, very public. |
| 1:19.7 | And two people who've been watching it since he touched down at the weekend are here right now. |
| 1:24.1 | It's North America editor Sarah Smith. |
| 1:25.9 | Hello, Sarah. |
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