President Trump Shares Thoughts On Britain’s Likely Next PM: “Extremely Liberal”

President Trump just gave his first remarks on Andy Burnham, the man who is poised to replace Keir Starmer as British Prime Minister.

Burnham is the former mayor of Greater Manchester.

He was recently elected as a Member of Parliament in Britian to launch a formal challenge against Starmer, who resigned shortly after Burnham’s win.

But, unfortunately, he isn’t likely to be much better than Starmer.

While speaking to the press at the White House, President Trump said he has heard that Burhman is “extremely liberal” and predicted that he “probably won’t open up the North Sea” for oil drilling.

From the Independent:

Mr Burnham, a newly elected MP and former Greater Manchester mayor, is currently the sole contender for the top job, with the Prime Minister set to remain in post until a successor is chosen.

The president had repeatedly lambasted Sir Keir over his energy stance and not allowing further oil drilling in the North Sea, relying instead on “windmills”.

Mr Trump argued this had hurt the Prime Minister “very, very badly”.

Asked at the White House what he knew about Mr Burnham, the president said: “I don’t know, I think I see that he was, I guess, the mayor of a town.

“I hear he’s extremely liberal, extremely, so that means he probably won’t open up the North Sea.

“I gave Keir Starmer some pretty good advice. I said open up the North Sea, go to Aberdeen, which was the hottest city of the whole continent.

“It was the oil city of Europe, and they closed everything. It was terrible. I couldn’t believe it.

“The North Sea is loaded. I have had every oil company come to see me, ‘Sir, could you give us access to the UK? We would do anything to drill in the North Sea’.

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“The amazing thing is they buy their oil from Norway, which gets the oil from the North Sea. Think of it, and they pay a big premium.

“Norway’s got now two trillion dollars in the bank, and the UK is dying, so they should open up the North Sea, and it’s an easy one, and a lot of good things are going to happen. It’s among the greatest deals in the world.”

Mr Trump made his comments during a meeting with Nato chief Mark Rutte ahead of a crucial summit of the military alliance in Turkey.

Watch what President Trump had to say about the prospective British PM here:

🚨 NOW: President Trump says he expects Keir Starmer's replacement Andy Burnham as UK PM to be MORE LIBERAL who will REFUSE to open up oil drilling

"The UK IS DYING!"

"Open up the North Sea!"

"I hear he's extremely liberal. EXTREMELY. So that means he probably won't open up… pic.twitter.com/HVTkspjfgR

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 24, 2026

NOW: President Trump says he expects Keir Starmer’s replacement Andy Burnham as UK PM to be MORE LIBERAL who will REFUSE to open up oil drilling

“The UK IS DYING!”

“Open up the North Sea!”

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“I hear he’s extremely liberal. EXTREMELY. So that means he probably won’t open up the North Sea!”

Energy + immigration failures are WRECKING the UK. They need a Trump figure

Later on, President Trump was also asked if he wants to be the “first person on his list to visit the country” after a new PM is installed.

This was his blunt response:

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🚨 LMFAO! Q: A new UK Prime Minister will be installed soon. Do you want to be the first person on his list to visit the country?

PRESIDENT TRUMP: "No." pic.twitter.com/Ya14KGaIK5

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 24, 2026

For his part, Andy Burnham is no fan of President Trump, either.

CBS News shared some comments Burnham has made about our president:

In short, he has not been particularly complimentary.

“The path we’re on, if we are not careful, is a path towards the politics of the United States of America,” Burnham warned on the campaign trail in June. While he didn’t attribute it directly to President Trump, he said Americans were grappling with “a polarized, poisonous politics where people in communities don’t work together anymore.”

Last year, in an interview with The London Economic that included questions about Mr. Trump’s reelection and the rise of right-wing, populist parties in Europe, he said: “I think we now have to have a real debate about what that means and the instability that [former prime minister] Liz Truss brought to Britain, I think Trump is bringing to the U.S. and the world.”

In a 2024 book that he co-authored, Burnham wrote: “Whether we like it or not, Donald Trump and Nigel Farage have been effective in connecting with people who feel politicians have neglected the place where they live.”

He said a “new radical Right” in the U.K. and U.S. were capitalizing on inequality and an “out-of-touch left-progressive establishment” that had failed to solve problems for middle class voters.

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And on Jan. 6, 2021, as rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Burnham posted on X: “Any UK politician who gave Trump the time of day should be ashamed right now.”

The UK should wise up, listen to President Trump, and get their act together.

But, sadly, it doesn’t look like they are headed in the right direction at all…

Trump knows that the UK is a joke. They keep electing one clown after another.

— Khoa (@1980Khoa) June 24, 2026

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