A routine diplomatic phone call between US President Donald Trump and then newly elected UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer reportedly took such an unexpected turn that senior officials inside Downing Street struggled to keep straight faces.
According to Morgan McSweeney, Starmer's former chief of staff, Trump's first conversation with the British leader began with a familiar complaint about wind turbines before veering into an extraordinary theory about Britain's wildlife. The moment was so unexpected that those listening in were, as McSweeney later recalled, 'barely able to contain themselves because it was so funny.'
