America ONLY views Starmer & UK through Elon’s eyes…he needs to stop bashing Musk or risk wrecking special relationship
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YEARS ago, US comedian Jon Stewart made a joke about Canada which angered some Canadians and opened the eyes of others to the reality of the punchline. As Stewart related: “I was visiting Canada and a nice Canadian gentleman came up to me and asked: ‘what do the people in the United States think of Canada?’ and I replied ‘We don’t.’”.
![[Donald Trump pointing at the camera during a campaign rally.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/former-us-president-republican-presidential-946592068.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
Like it or not, accept it or not, that is the prevailing reality for many in the U.S. – and in the Congress of the US – when it comes to the “relationship” between the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Fewer and fewer Americans and fewer and fewer Members of Congress ever think about Britain or the United Kingdom. Ever.
![[(FILES) Tesla CEO Elon Musk (R) jumps on stage as he joins former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally at site of his first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5, 2024. Donald Trump will be the one taking the presidential oath next week, but in some respects, billionaire Elon Musk might as well place his hand on the Bible too. In an unprecedented relationship for modern US history, Trump will be heading into the White House shadowed by an advisor who is not only the world's richest person but matches the incoming president in terms of wild ambition, hard-right politics, and media influence. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/NEW_2193289928jpg-JS963613967.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
While that is a reality, I believe it’s a critical mistake for a number of important reasons. Britain is still a great nation and we do have much in common while sharing numerous strategic partnerships and national and economic security concerns. It is a friendship which must be nurtured, grown, and solidified.
![[Keir Starmer, Britain's Prime Minister, gesturing.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/britains-prime-minister-keir-starmer-962583755.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
That said, it certainly seems to some Republican Members of Congress and some powerful supporters of President-elect Donald J. Trump, that Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Labour Party are uninterested in that mission. Worse, they filed away the fact that representatives from the Labour Party – with a strong “wink and a nod” from Starmer – flew into the United States during the presidential campaign between Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris to actively campaign on US soil for Harris while smearing Trump in the process.
