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MAY v TRUMP
WHEN Tory PM Theresa May met potty POTUS Donald Trump at The White House in 2017, they amazed onlookers by holding hands while walking to a press conference. Number 10 insisted it was just a “chivalrous gesture” by Trump, but that didn’t stop a worried May immediately calling hubby Philip to explain the bizarre episode, which she later said was a “moment of assistance”.
BLAIR v BUSH
BACK in 2001, wearing a jumper and tight trousers, Labour PM Tony Blair appeared for the cameras with George W Bush at the president’s Camp David retreat. When asked what the pair had in common Bush, wearing a flying jacket, said: “Well, we both use Colgate toothpaste.” Blair replied: “They are going to wonder how you know that!” In 2006, Bush greeted his pal and ally in the 2003 invasion of Iraq with the words: “Yo, Blair!”
THATCHER v REAGAN
FORMER Hollywood film star Ronald Reagan and Conservative PM Margaret Thatcher struck up a close friendship in the 1980s. They were even photographed dancing together at a ball, right. He called her “the best man in England” while the
Iron Lady called Ronnie
“the second most important man in her life” after husband Denis.
CAMERON v OBAMA
AFTER getting over the embarrassment of giving Labour PM Gordon Brown a set of DVDS that didn’t work on British machines, Barack Obama had a chummier ★ relationship with premier David Cameron, who revealed that the president sometimes called him “bro”. On Obama’s visit to Britain, they played table tennis together and joined forces to flip burgers at Downing Street.
MAJOR v CLINTON
TORY PM John Major never really hit it off with Democrat President Bill Clinton, falling out over the American’s decision to grant Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams a US visa. Clinton got on much better with Tony Blair, elected in 1997, who attended a gala dinner at the White House with wife Cherie, where she was serenaded by singer Stevie Wonder.
MACMILLAN v KENNEDY
WHEN John F Kennedy became President in 1961, he formed a close bond with the British PM Harold Macmillan, who was 23 years older. Supermac, as he was nicknamed, advised JFK over the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and the president even referred to him as “Uncle Harold”. Funnily enough, the pair were actually related
through marriage.
CHURCHILL v ROOSEVELT
PM Winston Churchill coined the term “special relationship” in 1946 after Britain and the US had become victorious allies during World War Two. He first met President Franklin D. Roosevelt on a ship in 1941 and they got on. When Churchill later stayed at the White House, FDR called by his room to find the premier naked. Churchill quipped that he “had nothing to hide”.