United States trade deal to happen quickly

Trump sparked worldwide anger earlier in the year when he withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Accords. Speculation has since bubbled over when exactly that trip may happen, and whether left-leaning London could be traded for a visit to Scotland instead, where President Trump owns a golf course.

I’d like to thank Prime Minister May for being with us.

“Explained that the US must fix the many bad trade deals it has made”, he tweeted early Sunday.

The president will meet with British Prime Minister Theresa May first thing in the morning before departing for a forum of women entrepreneurs followed by a working meeting of G20 leaders.

Trump has said he believes that Russian Federation may have hacked the emails of the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton staffers, but that other countries have been involved as well.

On this, the BBC’s deputy political editor John Pienaar said Mr Trump would give her a polite enough hearing but he did not expect any sudden breakthrough. With that said, the two leaders will be making progress on a powerful trade deal.

Mr Trump’s claim that progress was being made on a UK-US deal came after Mrs May faced demands from business leaders on Friday to retain trade ties with the European Union after the March 2019 deadline for Brexit, to limit the disruption to businesses.

German chancellor Angela Merkel said the U.S. president’s decision was regrettable, while French president Emmanuel Macron said he would host a summit in December to discuss the next steps on the agenda.

But Simon Fraser, a former diplomat who served as a permanent under-secretary at the Foreign Office, cast doubt on how soon any trade deal could be reached.

Trump’s announcement came after his administration proposed sharp cuts in funding for the U.S. State Department and other humanitarian missions as part of his “America First” policy. Protesters in the anti-capitalist Welcome to Hell march clashed with police Thursday afternoon and into the night. The only way to go forward is if Brussels agrees for the U.K.to make an early exit.

WWF climate and energy spokesman Manuel Pulgar-Vidal said: “Implementing the Paris Agreement is in the interest of each nation”. He has previously expressed a preference for bilateral trade deals rather than large multinational accords, which prompted, for example, the USA withdrawal from the Trans Pacific Partnership shortly after he took office this year.