How to Survive a Phone Call with Donald Trump

“Few things in politics are as tricky as meeting Donald Trump. A half-hour phone call is one of them,” Politico reports.

“Just like other world leaders, Keir Starmer is — still — waiting in line for his first call with the newly returned United States president. The United Kingdom’s prime minister likes to point out he bagged a two-hour chicken dinner with Trump in September, and two pre-inauguration calls. But he’d best be on his guard.”

“Whether it was fastidious, buttoned-up Theresa May or irreverent Boris Johnson — Britain’s two prime ministers during Trump’s first term — calls with the president used to be box office events at No. 10 Downing Street.”