President Trump requested that White House photographer Shealah Craighead take a nice shot of his Wednesday afternoon meet-and-greet with British Prime Minister Theresa May.
‘Get a nice one, Shea, it’s a very historic meeting,’ Trump said, as eyewitnesses attending the United Nations General Assembly giggled, according to the pool report.
Trump’s quip comes after May scolded the American president for making presumptions about the latest London terror attack. And after she made a thinly-veiled digs at Trump in her UN speech over the Paris climate accord and trade.
British Prime Minister Theresa May (left) grabs hands with President Donald Trump (right). Trump asked his White House photographer to get a good picture of the two of them calling their meeting ‘historic’
President Trump (right) clasps his hands as he talks to British Prime Minister Theresa May (right) who had criticized him, without using his name, during her own speech to the United Nations earlier today
‘I do get on with him,’ British Prime Minister Theresa May (left) said in a recent interview about President Trump (right). Here they’re photographed about to shake hands during a meeting that was a part of the United Nations General Assembly
On Friday in London May had sat down with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos shortly after a bombing on the London Underground.
‘Well, I don’t think it’s helpful for anyone to speculate what is an ongoing investigation,’ May told Stephanopoulos on the heels of Trump’s tweet, which suggested the terrorists had been ‘in the sights of Scotland Yard.’
Then, today at the UNGA, May said global warming ‘is depleting and degrading the planet we leave to our children.’
She also used the Paris deal, which Trump has said he wants to re-enter on more favorable terms, is an example of the world working together to promote ‘fairness, justice and human rights.’
May said it was important that ‘nations honor their responsibilities and play their part in holding and renewing a rules-based international order that can deliver prosperity and security for us all.’
Around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday May and Trump were face to face and exchanging the usual pleasantries.
Trump welcomed the prime minister and mentioned the many friendly faces in the room due to trade negotiations.
‘We’re going to be doing a lot of trading … we have gotten to know each other over the last period of months. It’s a really honor to have you here, thank you very much,’ Trump said, according to the pool report.
Trump was joined by Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, his chief economic adviser Gary Cohn and Tillerson’s Chief of Staff Margaret Peterlin.
In her speech, May had also warned against moves that would ‘undermine support for the forces of liberalism and free trade that have done so much to propel global growth,’ a line that was also interpreted as a dig at Trump.
‘It’s good to be here,’ she said, when faced with Trump in the bilat. ‘We’ve had many discussions with your representatives and ourselves on a whole variety of issues, including trade … but some other issues, policy issues, our security and defense relationship, which is of course the closest – the UK-US – the closest we have.’
May had talked about that ‘special relationship’ between the two countries too, when sitting down with Stephanopoulos last week.
‘I do get on with him,’ she said of her relationship with Trump.
‘And of course, as you know, President Trump actually as an affection for the United Kingdom. Like many Americans, he has family connections with the United Kingdom,’ she noted.