Out of town pool report #16 - Trump says visit 'one of the highest honors of my life'
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- Danny Kemp
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- September 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM BST
POTUS rose and spoke for about six minutes.
"It's a lot of presidents, and this was the second state visit, and that's the first, and maybe that's going to be the last time, I hope it is actually" -- which got a laugh.
Then adds, in a serious tone, that the visit is "one of the highest honors of my life."
Trump says great to see Princess Catherine, who is recovering from cancer, looking "so radiant, so healthy and so beautiful"
Hailed British achievements including ending slavery.
On US-UK relationship
The word special does not begin to do it justice."
"Were like two notes in one chord, or two verses in the same poem."
Returns to a favorite theme, says US is "doing unbeiilevable, one year ago we were a very sick country, now we're the hottest country in the world."
Says of UK and US: “we must continue to stand for the values of the English speaking world”
Danny Kemp
AFP White House correspondent
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