When asked by reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday what he knows about Burnham, Trump replied: “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,” Trump continued, referencing the incumbent Prime Minister. “I said, ‘open up the North Sea.’”
The relationship between Starmer and Trump has become increasingly strained over the past few months amid the fallout of the Iran war.
Asked whether he hoped Burnham would make him one of his first international visits, Trump said: “No. I think we're probably of a different persuasion. He's very liberal.”
Experts tell TIME that re-establishing close ties between the U.K. and U.S. will be critical moving forward.
However, in what could prove to be a strong first step, Burnham has signaled an openness to discussing oil and gas production in the North Sea. “I don’t have a sort of fixed position,” he said earlier this month.
Some of these areas could be “economic interests, security sharing, and broader ideological alignments of freedom and Western values,” he says.
Tensions have been high between Trump and the alliance, as the U.S. President has repeatedly lambasted NATO nations who refused to allow the U.S. access to joint bases for offensive strikes and conflict-related activities during the Iran war.
“I was disappointed with Italy, I was disappointed with the U.K.,” he said. “We're disappointed with Germany and France. We're disappointed with most of them.”
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte shows a chart during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on June 24, 2026. —Andrew Harnik––Getty Images“I know there have been isolated cases about which you are really disappointed, but generally speaking, your European allies have been there,” he told the President.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, during an address at the NATO headquarters in Brussels last week, also scolded allies over their “shameful” response during the Iran war.
He announced a review of U.S. military troops in Europe that “will examine America's force posture and basing in Europe” and will include consultations with the U.S. Congress.
Last month, Washington told allies it would be scaling back the number of military assets it dedicates to the alliance—an attempt to remedy an "unhealthy co-dependence in the NATO Force Model on U.S. forces,” according to NATO's top commander, U.S. Air Force General Alexus Grynkewich.
Rutte has since emphasized that the withdrawal of U.S. troops “will not have an impact on NATO's defense plans” and will unfold gradually in a "structured” way.
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