Trump asked May at debut meeting why Boris Johnson was not PM, book says

Donald Trump with Theresa May and a bust of Winston Churchill in the Oval Office in January 2017. The visit was Trump’s first meeting with a major foreign leader. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

In his first White House meeting with a major foreign leader, Donald Trump asked Theresa May: “Why isn’t Boris Johnson the prime minister? Didn’t he want the job?”

At the time, the notoriously ambitious Johnson was foreign secretary. He became prime minister two years later, in 2019, after May was forced to resign.