UK Ambassador Cracks Up Trump And His Team Thanking Them For '11th Hour' Call 'Demanding Even More'

In the Oval Office on Thursday, UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson celebrated the U.S.-U.K. trade deal.

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00:00Well, Mr. President, thank you very much indeed in hosting us this morning.

00:10And thank you very much indeed also for that very typical 11th hour intervention by you

00:17with your phone call to the President demanding even more out of this deal than any of us expected.

00:24So thank you for that. The Prime Minister was delighted, obviously, to take that call.

00:30But you took it to another level, and I think the point I would make is twofold.

00:37One is that if we're going to rebalance and rebuild international trade in a way that serves all our interests,

00:47then we're better doing that together than separately and apart, and that's what we're on a mission to do.

00:55But secondly, you've done what you said you would do.

00:58You said to the Prime Minister when he came and we visited in the Oval that you would do a good trade deal with the United Kingdom,

01:10that you would do it at pace, and that we would be first.

01:14And you have delivered that. You've been true to your words.

01:17So thank you very much indeed for that.

01:21For us, it's not the end. It's the end just of the beginning.

01:26I mean, there is yet more we can do in reducing tariffs and trade barriers so as to open up our markets to each other

01:36even more than we are agreeing to do today.

01:39But it also provides us with the platform, the springboard, to do what I think will be even more valuable for both our countries in the future,

01:51and that's creating a technology partnership between the United States and the United Kingdom

01:58so that we can harness science and technology in order to create future industries and future jobs.

02:06And to do that together in the way we work so closely already in the national security and defense area,

02:14we can just take that to yet further areas of science, enterprise, and endeavor.

02:20So we're looking forward to doing that in the coming months.

02:26You've launched us extremely well today.

02:31It just, in my view, as the Prime Minister has said, just shows what two countries who trust each other,

02:38who are confident in each other and are familiar with each other, can do, not just for ourselves,

02:44but for those in the rest of the world who need to benefit from a bigger and better international trading system.

02:50Thank you very much.

02:53That was beautifully stated.

02:54What a beautiful accent.

02:56I'd like to have that accent.

02:58My mother would be proud.