Trump tells Starmer his beautiful wife is his 'greatest asset'

US President-elect Donald Trump joked in his latest call with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer about coyotes needing weight-loss drugs after becoming fat feasting on the remains of birds killed by flying into wind turbines, it has emerged.

Despite a dull readout published by Downing Street in December, which said the prime minister congratulated the president-elect before the pair discussed “the close and historic relationship between the UK and the US,” it has been reported Trump veered wildly off course.

At one point during the December call, Trump is said to have become obsessed with the number of birds dying by flying into wind turbines, joking that coyotes in the US were becoming so fat they could need weight-loss medication.

Trump then told the PM about his meeting with the Prince of Wales after the reopening of Notre Dame in Paris, complimenting his “modern” beard, The Times reported.

He then discussed his golf course in Scotland before praising Sir Keir’s wife, Lady Victoria Starmer, describing her as “beautiful” and the PM’s “greatest asset.”

The reported details of the call are a far cry from a Downing Street spokesman’s official readout and is indicative of the challenge Sir Keir will face negotiating with Trump when he returns to the White House.

It comes after an escalating row between Sir Keir and Trump’s administration, with the PM facing repeated attacks by one of the president-elect’s biggest allies, Elon Musk.

The Independent