Trump To Meet Boris Johnson During NATO Talks

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would try to stay out of the British election campaign but nonetheless meet Prime Minister Boris Johnson. … Continue reading Trump To Meet Boris Johnson During NATO Talks

By Ignatius Igwe

Updated December 3, 2019

US President Donald Trump and US First Lady Melania Trump (L) prepare to disembark from Air Force One after landing at Stansted Airport, northeast of London on December 2, 2019, ahead of the upcoming NATO alliance summit. NATO marks its 70th birthday at a summit next week but the celebration could well turn into an arena of political combat between the alliance’s feuding leaders. Heads of state and government will descend on London Tuesday bracing for a scrap over spending and how to deal with Russia, in a huge test of unity within NATO — billed by its own officials as the “most successful alliance in history”. Adrian DENNIS / AFP

US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would try to stay out of the British election campaign but nonetheless meet Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Trump is in London for the summit of the NATO alliance but was not expected to hold a one-to-one with Johnson, ten days before the vote.

But, asked by reporters, the US president said: “I will be meeting with him yes.”