Poor old Winnie now oscillates between being centre-stage at the White House during the administrations of George W Bush and Trump, and being boxed up and moved elsewhere in the building during Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s years behind the Resolute Desk.
Trump with former UK prime minister Theresa May during his first term, beside a bust of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the Oval Office of the White House (Photo: Brendan Smialowski /AFP via Getty Images)Foreign policy veterans in Washington cannot name a single ambassadorial appointment that any American president in the modern era has ever rejected out of hand. It would “usually be done quietly”, one former top official told The i Paper, before conceding that the words “usually” and “quietly” are not often associated with Trump.
Trump officials have voiced their opposition to Lord Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to Washington (Photo: Michael Kovac/Getty Images)Some figures in Trumpworld take issue with that description. In a swaggering Monday night interview with Iain Dale on LBC , Joe Grogan, former director of the Domestic Policy Council and an adviser to Trump during his first term in the White House, excoriated Mandelson’s selection.
Keir Starmer and David Lammy at the British ambassador’s residence in Washington before a meeting with Joe Biden in September (Photo: Stefan Rousseau-Pool/Getty Images)Grogan warned that during Trump’s first term in office there was “far too much negative rhetoric…coming out of the UK about Donald Trump”, instead of what he called “respectful engagement”. He urged Starmer to “flip the page on this and be more respectful of Donald Trump in his second term”.
Even Trump the messiah can't save Tory has-beens
Read MoreInto this maelstrom, Starmer apparently wishes to wade. Lammy suggested on Monday that the Prime Minister could visit Washington for White House talks with Trump within weeks. The Foreign Secretary said he was “very confident” that his boss would secure an early meeting with the President, and that “the special relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States will continue to flourish”.
Trump and Theresa May at the White House in 2017 (Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Those moments together were the only high points of their relationship. Hours later, as May returned to the UK, Trump announced his travel ban on citizens from seven mostly Muslim countries. She had been given no warning of the decision, and the travel ban proved deeply controversial in Britain.
For Starmer, an early trip to Washington might seem to present a tantalising chance to find common cause with his opposite number in the White House. But as Icarus discovered, you can fly too close to the sun, even if Winston Churchill is once again watching over the Oval Office.
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