Keir Starmer retains boring Donald Trump to sleep as he is seen with eyes closed throughout each chat

Keir Starmer might only have a few weeks left as Prime Minister – but he’s spent it seemingly boring the pants off of Donald Trump. The pair have spent the last two days side-by-side in Turkey for the NATO summit.

And in pretty much every image of the pair, Donald Trump appears to have his eyes firmly shut while the outgoing PM is waffling at him.It’s not clear what the pair were indiscussion over – one can only assume it was important things, like Larry the Cat – but whatever it was, Trump was seemingly unimpressed.

And his displeasure over the UK continued while he was away from Starmer (after his in-person power naps), as he went on the attack against some of Starmer’s decisions in recent months, albeit with a tone of “well, he’s leaving, so I won’t put to boot too far in”.

While reiterating his criticism of the UK over the conflict, the President adopted a more reconciliatory tone, speaking at the conclusion of the NATO summit yesterday.

Speaking at a press conference, he emphasised there had been “unification” at the leaders’ gathering in Ankara – and that there had been “tremendous love in that room” . . . while he was awake, obviously.

And in one last bromance moment with Starmer, Trump used the trip to Ankara to mark the inaugural international journey for some new US aircraft.

Mr Trump had announced on Truth Social that he would use an older Air Force One plane “for old time’s sake” to fly to RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, while the new plane visits the same US airbase to allow service personnel stationed there to tour the plane. Mildenhall serves as a primary refuelling station for military and VIP aircraft.

Despite this, he had previously slammed Britain and other Nato members over their response to the Middle East war, which had further stoked tensions and led the president to openly question the commitment to the long-standing alliance.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer had declined to grant the US carte blanche in its use of UK military bases to launch strikes against Iran, with authorisation restricted to defensive attacks on missile sites.

Washington had also dismissed a proposed UK and French-led operation to safeguard the Strait of Hormuz waterway after hostilities concluded.

However, softening his criticism Trump said: “Almost all of the countries have been good. They just had a bad moment. They didn’t help us. We didn’t need the help, but if we would have wanted the help.”

He said he was displeased with the response from allies that they “would rather remain on the sidelines”.

Trump added: “The UK gave an answer that was sort of weirder than that. I said ‘Would you like to help?’ They said ‘We do, but we want to wait till the war is over’. This was not in the spirit of Winston Churchill.”