President Trump is known to be pro-British and an outspoken fan of the British Royal Family. He is British on his mother's side. When Donald J Trump began his second presidential term in 2025, there were some in the United Kingdom who thought this augured a new high in London-Washington relations. But they were mistaken.
The UK went to great lengths to mollify President Trump. The Prime Minister of the UK, Sir Keir Starmer, visited Trump soon after he was re-inaugurated. Starmer presented the US President with a letter from King Charles III. The British monarch invited Donald J Trump for a second state visit.
Starmer underscored that this was unprecedented. Trump was ignorant enough to believe that he was accorded this unique honour because of his magnificence. No, he got a second state visit because there is a new monarch since his first state visit – it was Elizabeth II in Trump's first term.
The United Kingdom rolled out the red carpet. The state visit went swimmingly, and there was relief that the notoriously tetchy Trump was thrilled with the state banquet at Windsor Castle. Charles III's oration was nauseatingly sycophantic.
The British were worried about the tariffs that Trump imposed on the UK during his second presidency. He was soon persuaded to reduce them radically. The United Kingdom and the United States were able to agree on a symbiotic trade deal.
In 2026, relations became strained. Donald J Trump thought aloud about withdrawing from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. In February 2026, he began his illegal war of aggression against Iran at the behest of Israel. He wanted the United Kingdom to join in his madcap adventure. The UK refused to do so and would not even permit the US Air Force to use bases in the United Kingdom to launch air strikes on Iran. Starmer would not consent to this, and Trump publicly said, "He really did not want to do it."
Starmer's personal approval rating is the lowest of any prime minister since records began. However, he won some plaudits for standing up to Trump. Starmer's Labour Party was in office when Tony Blair led the UK into the Iraq War in 2003. It remains a highly contentious decision and is divisive in the Labour Party to this day. Starmer was not an MP back then, but was adamantly against the Iraq War. Had he agreed to get the UK involved in the Iran War, he would already have been forced out by his own MPs.
President Trump and Vice-President Vance have commented publicly on British politics. They have denounced the oppression inflicted on the British people by the governing Labour Party. Trump and Vance have inveighed against the UK Government's attacks on liberty and their anti-free-speech agenda. Many of their criticisms are valid, but they do not come well from men who oppose free expression in their own country. They have had people deported who denounced the Gaza genocide. They call the media "enemies of the people". Moreover, Trump and Vance detest anything they regard as foreigners meddling in their country, but they are happy to meddle in other countries.
Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK. Reform UK is an insurgent political party that, according to the polls, is going to win the next election. Farage has been a Trump groupie for years and famously addressed a Trump rally in 2015. Farage applauds Trump and says all President Trump's castigations of the UK are fair.
In 2025, an 18-year-old named Henry Nowak was murdered in the United Kingdom. Nowak was a white Briton of distant Polish ancestry. The man who killed him was a British Indian Sikh who killed Nowak with his kirpan.
The police were called. The killer said that Nowak had launched a racist attack on him and that he had defended himself against Nowak. Nowak was bleeding on the ground when the police turned up; the Sikh was unwounded. Nowak said to the police, "I can't breathe", and denied that he had been racist.
He was handcuffed while bleeding heavily and died soon afterwards. Many are horrified that the murderer's bogus claims were instantly assumed to be true and the victim's denials were dismissed. The killer's accusations were subsequently proven to have been without foundation.
People complain about two-tier policing. Because of the claim of "white privilege", the white person is assumed to be in the wrong. They are treated more harshly. The police are petrified of being accused of racism by non-white people. Right-wingers are harassed and arrested for their utterances. The ultra-left indulges when it riots.
There is a law in the UK against carrying a knife in public, but there is an exemption for Sikhs carrying their ceremonial knives, known as kirpans. People on motorbikes are obliged to wear crash helmets, but not turbaned Sikhs. There are some who object to this as brown privilege. Cruelty to animals is illegal, but not if it is halal or shechita slaughter. There is a caucus in the UK called "One Law for All", which says there must be no religious exemptions.
The UK tries very hard to be anti-racist. There are some who say the United Kingdom is now racist against the 80 per cent white majority. Some of the whites are ethnic-minority whites – Italians, Romanians, Spaniards, and others.
The police undergo diversity training. That is seen as indoctrination into Marxist shibboleths. Some abhor the far-left propaganda that is pumped out in schools, universities, hospitals, the civil service, and even the judiciary.
If one goes back to the 1960s, there was not a single non-white police officer in the UK. The UK was only 2 per cent non-white at that stage. Some people were openly racist, and that included a few police officers. When a black man became a London police officer, it was front-page news. He said he was called a "nigger" and a "coon" by his white colleagues. There were some decent whites who did not do that and sat with him at luncheon in the police canteen. But they were pressured by the others not to be friendly to the black man. One by one, the good whites drifted away and stopped sitting with him at luncheon.
Even in 1994, a police chief constable in London said, "90% of muggers are black", in a city that was only 10 per cent black. Even if what he said was true, it impaired race relations.
Because there was frank racism in the UK two generations ago, the United Kingdom has made strenuous efforts to stamp it out. Perhaps the UK has gone so far as to become racist against whites.
Vance and Trump seized upon the murder of Nowak. That is one out of about 600 murders in the UK in 2025. Their concern for him is a sick joke. Trump incited violence at his rallies in 2015, and violence occurred, yet he got away with it. The January 6 riot in 2021 killed five people.
Trump has armed Israel to commit genocide. He has murdered fishermen in the Caribbean and called them drug traffickers, as well as murdering hundreds of Iranian civilians and 150 little girls in a school.
Trump is disliked by most Britons. Only about 20 per cent of Britons approve of him. They are mostly Reform UK voters.