{"id":62782,"date":"2017-01-27T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T19:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62782"},"modified":"2017-01-27T12:54:55","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T19:54:55","slug":"donald-trump-tells-theresa-may-brexit-is-going-to-be-a-wonderful-thing-for-your-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/27\/donald-trump-tells-theresa-may-brexit-is-going-to-be-a-wonderful-thing-for-your-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump tells Theresa May: &#8216;Brexit is going to be a wonderful thing for your country&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<footer class=\"footer-author\">\n<div class=\"byline component \">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span class=\"byline__author-name\">By\u00a0<a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/authors\/barney-henderson\/\">Barney Henderson<\/a>, <\/span><span class=\"byline__author-location\">new york\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/authors\/nick-allen\/\">Nick Allen<\/a>, <span class=\"byline__author-location\">washington\u00a0Courtesy Telegraph (UK)<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"article-date component article-date--live\"><span class=\"component-content\"><time class=\"article-date-published\" datetime=\"2017-01-27T19:45+0000\">27 JANUARY 2017 \u2022 7:45PM<\/time><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<article data-insert-mobile-adslot=\"\">\n<div class=\"articleBodyText section version-2\">\n<div class=\"article-body-text component version-2\">\n<div class=\"component-content\">\n<ul>\n<li><b>Trump tells May Brexit will be &#8216;wonderful for UK&#8217;<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>May says Trump is 100 % behind Nato<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Trump reaffirms that &#8216;torture works&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>President accepts visit to UK in June<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>White House declares UK is &#8216;premier ally&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Trump shows Churchill bust to May in Oval Office<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/01\/27\/theresa-may-us-meeting-donald-trump-pictures\/\">Theresa May&#8217;s US trip &#8211; in pictures<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/01\/27\/white-house-spells-theresa-mays-name-wrong-three-times-memo\/\">\u200bTheresa who? White House spells PM&#8217;s name wrong three times<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter\">D<\/span>onald Trump has told Theresa May he believes Brexit will be a &#8220;wonderful thing&#8221; for Britain and open the door to new trade deals as the two leaders appeared to hold hands at the White House.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint press conference at the White House,\u00a0Mr Trump said: &#8220;Great days lie ahead for our two peoples and our two countries. &#8220;On behalf of our nation, I thank you for joining us here today as a really great honour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"m_first-letter\">M<\/span>rs May said: &#8220;Thank you for inviting me so soon after your inauguration and I&#8217;m delighted to be able to congratulate you on what was a stunning election victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And, as you say, the invitation is an indication of the strength and importance of the special relationship that exists between our two countries, a relationship based on the bonds of history, of family, kinship and common interests.<\/p>\n<article class=\"MediaCard\n           MediaCard--mediaForward\n\n           customisable-border\" dir=\"ltr\" data-scribe=\"component:card\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"MediaCard-media\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-widthConstraint js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"max-width: 800px\">\n<div class=\"MediaCard-mediaContainer js-cspForcedStyle\" data-style=\"padding-bottom: 100.0000%\"><a class=\"MediaCard-mediaAsset\n                    NaturalImage\n\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stcrow\/status\/825053918027796480\/photo\/1\" data-scribe=\"element:photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"NaturalImage-image\" title=\"View image on Twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/C3MuJzbUkAAGVn4.jpg:small\" alt=\"View image on Twitter\" width=\"452\" height=\"452\" data-srcset=\"https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FC3MuJzbUkAAGVn4.jpg%3Alarge 2048w,https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FC3MuJzbUkAAGVn4.jpg 1200w,https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FC3MuJzbUkAAGVn4.jpg%3Asmall 680w\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<div class=\"EmbeddedTweet-tweet\"><\/div>\n<p>Full Report<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/01\/27\/theresa-may-meets-donald-trump-white-house-live\/\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/01\/27\/theresa-may-meets-donald-trump-white-house-live\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Barney Henderson, new york\u00a0Nick Allen, washington\u00a0Courtesy Telegraph (UK) 27 JANUARY 2017 \u2022 7:45PM Trump tells May Brexit will be &#8216;wonderful for UK&#8217; May says Trump is 100 % behind Nato Trump reaffirms that &#8216;torture works&#8217; President accepts visit to UK in June White House declares UK is &#8216;premier ally&#8217; Trump shows Churchill bust to May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}