he has been leader of the free world. con is the mayor of london and trump needs to ignore to con s nonsense and focus on the big picture. shannon: the mayor is supporting margaret lamb, talking about why she is in london to support donald trump. i am here to support him. we want to be independent. shannon: people who support brexit support that idea. they have reasons to like donald trump. i suppose they do. he supported brexit but not clear what will happen with the uk and brexit, there is no deal yet and donald trump may accidentally hurt the caused by being so supportive of it. that is his choice but the
presidency and the next guy or woman we ll be able to get along with just fine, or are there fundamental issues here that will have lasting damage? i don t know about lasting damage. definitely short-term damage and interfering with brexit the way president trump does is just really ludicrous in my mind. but the good news here is that this is the anniversary coming up of d-day on june 6th. it might be the greatest generation comes to our rescue on trump s visit here. back in 1995 when bill clinton met with the queen, they were in portsmouth and it was all about the 50th anniversary of d-day. we have the 75th anniversary, and our veterans are loved in great britain and france. i think in a day or so they re going to become the stars of the anniversary and donald trump s tweets will become just a distraction. they basically need to get president trump out of great britain as quickly as they can
i think many of his aides in moments like this really look forward to this. it s a bit of a reprieve for him as well. he doesn t have time right now to get into anymore feuds, at least for the next few hours. well, there s that. abby phillip, thanks very much. the personal petty public jabs not the only way president trump is breaking diplomatic norms. he s injected himself into the brexit debate going on in britain, telling prime minister theresa may s office they re trying to tell trump not to meet with brexit supporters while he s in london. cnn s clarissa ward is at the winfield house in london. into wonder watching this, clarissa, whether british officials in downing street who support brexit, of course, would calculate that president trump meeting with pro brexit officials would actually hurt their case in a country where president trump is not well liked. is that part of number ten s
it s interesting that donald trump has involved his family so keenly in this visit as well. yes, you see prince charles and camilla there as well. we re learning a little more about the gift exchanges in addition to the book by winston churchill. the president was given this three-piece pen set made exclusively for the queen. first lady melania trump was given, we re told, a specially commissioned silver box. this is typical, right, max, customary for the queen to present these gifts to heads of state as they visit. what is atypical, i suppose, u.s. head of state coming and commenting on the outgoing lame duck prime minister, criticizing her handling of brexit and commenting on boris johnson and support there for boris johnson who will be going for the job. reporter: he s described boris johnson as a friend, just as nigel farage, johnson launching his leadership
going to be steppingth aside in just a couple of days. the president made it pretty clear, i believe on friday or so that he believes the next prime minister of the u.k. should be boris johnson. he believes nigel farage should be doing the negotiating on behalf of the u.k. when it comes to brexit. it is not necessarily a welcome or normal thing for the president of the united states to weigh in on domestic politics in the u.k. yes, that s definitely true, but i think of course trump is anything but a normal president, and he is certainly he has certainly gone out on a limb to support boris johnson and support brexit. i think for the administration, the main priority is going to be standing strongly beside our ally, britain, even in these troubling times because of course the trump administration does need britain for many of their priorities including increased nato spending, the wars in the middle east, and a