Overview
- Truss met the president at Mar-a-Lago and posted a smiling photo on X captioned “Right about everything.”
- The meeting followed a Truth Social video from the president depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes, later removed after a White House official said a staffer posted it in error, with Trump declining to apologize.
- Trump has not mentioned the interaction with Truss on his social media accounts.
- Barack Obama said in an interview that most Americans find this behavior deeply troubling.
- UK coverage criticized Truss’s stance as part of her shift toward MAGA politics after her 49-day premiership and subsequent loss of her parliamentary seat.