Trump UK visit live: US President lands in Britain after praising King Charles as an ‘elegant gentleman’

Campaigners from Fossil Free London shouted “how many will you kill if you drill, baby, drill” – mocking one of the US president’s famous sayings – and held up banners reading “oily money kills” as drums were beaten.

Male guests appeared to force the demonstrators out of the dining hall – bedecked with formal framed portraits – amid shouting.

Two men carried out a demonstrator by his hands and feet. Other guests started filming the disruption on their mobile phones.

Jane Dalton and David Maddox have the story.

Donald Trump arrived in the UK on Tuesday evening to kick off his state visit, but the US president has largely kept the focus on American issues since he touched down.

Other than a few brief comments about his admiration for the UK to waiting reporters, the Republican spent the night sounding off on a variety of US-centric news stories.

On his Truth Social platform, he posted about the recent elevation of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral primary, his feud with California Governor Gavin Newsom, and a sprawling lawsuit the US president has launched against The New York Times.

The chairman of Republicans Overseas UK has called on US President Donald Trump to end the Republican Party’s 100-year-old partnership with the Conservative Party and instead endorse Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Greg Swenson told the PA news agency ahead of a reception and dinner at the Windsor Guildhall that he tried to “give my best advice to the Tories”.

“I think the only way we can replicate what’s happened in America with fixing illegal migration, fixing the energy crisis, fixing cost of living, and also fixing the censorship crisis, is something like the Maga (Make America Great Again) movement and the Maga invasion, which is Reform, or parties that are similar to it,” Mr Swenson told the PA news agency.

He added: “I do think it’s time for a Maga movement here – make Britain great again – and that can’t be done well, so far, it hasn’t been really executed by the Tories.”

Donald Trump’s ongoing trip to the UK will include plenty of symbolic pomp and circumstance, but the state visit also comes alongside a newly announced transatlantic “Tech Prosperity Deal” meant to ramp up tech development across both countries.

The pact, described by officials on Tuesday, is meant to foster the development of key technologies like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and nuclear energy.

The deal will see top American tech firms like Microsoft, NVIDIA, Google, and OpenAI commit to £31 billion in investments in the UK tech sector, including by supporting data centres and AI start-ups.

The agreement is also meant to foster “joint research schemes” and will see US companies joining British firm Nscale to build out infrastructure in a new “AI Growth Zone” in the North East.

“This Tech Prosperity Deal marks a generational step change in our relationship with the US, shaping the futures of millions of people on both sides of the Atlantic, and delivering growth, security and opportunity up and down the country,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said in a statement.

The accord also means the deployment of 120,000 “advanced GPUs” from NVIDIA in the UK economy, marking its “biggest ever rollout in Europe to date,” according to officials.

Donald Trump praised the UK and King Charles late Tuesday as the US president arrived to the US ambassador’s residence in Regent’s Park, ahead of his visit tomorrow to Windsor Castle.

“I love it. I love Turnberry,” Trump said of the UK, mentioning the site of one of his golf clubs. “I love Aberdeen. I have a lot of things here that — they warm my heart, I want to tell you. It’s a very special place. It’s a great place.”

The Republican also offered praise for King Charles.

“We are going yo see him tomorrow,” Trump said. “He’s been a friend of mine for a long time. And everybody respects him; and they love him.”

The activist group Led By Donkeys may be responsible for a series of mocking images of Donald Trump projected on Tuesday night onto Windsor Castle, marking the arrival of the US president for a much-watched state visit, according to news reports.

The projections included videos and pictures of Trump and his former associate Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex offender and financier.

“Hey Donald, welcome to Windsor Castle,” the group wrote on its Instagram on Tuesday night, along with a photo of one of the projections.

Four people were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of malicious communications for allegedly projecting images onto Windsor Castle as a “public stunt,” according to police.

On Tuesday night, ahead of a Wednesday visit from US president Donald Trump, giant images of the Republican alongside the late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein were beamed onto the castle.

Four people were arrested Tuesday for alleged malicious communications, after using a projection in a “public stunt” at Windsor Castle, according to police.

“We take any unauthorised activity around Windsor Castle extremely seriously. Our officers responded swiftly to stop the projection and four people have been arrested,” Thames Valley Police Chief Superintendent Felicity Parker said in an online statement.

“We are conducting a thorough investigation with our partners into the circumstances surrounding this incident and will provide further updates when we are in a position to do so.”