David Cameron meets Trump at Mar-a-Lago

David Cameron is overseas on a foreign office trip to the US, but it transpired yesterday evening that Washington DC wasn’t to be his only destination. Last night, the Foreign Secretary made a quick pit stop at Mar-a-Lago to speak to former president Donald Trump. Lord Cameron is making the case for continued support for Ukraine – and wants to ensure the US will, if Trump becomes President, continue to provide aid to the country.

Republicans have spent months trying to block a proposed $60 billion military aid payment to Ukraine, and Trump has been pretty clear in previous statements that he opposes the support package. Not only that, the Washington Post recently revealed that part of Trump’s proposal to bring an end to the Russian war in Ukraine involves pushing Ukraine to cede Crimea and the Donbas border region to Russia. Lord Cameron, for his part, has been trying to convince Republican lawmakers to approve the funding – receiving a rather direct rebuttal from one congressman Mike Waltz who said that the ‘era of Ukraine’s blank cheque from Congress is over’, while congresswoman Marjorie Taylor-Greene, rather more forthrightly, told Cameron to ‘kiss my ass’.