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That was the start of an evening of lively conversation between the late Queen and Trump. \u201cI was in the groove,\u201d he told Woody Johnson, a billionaire businessman and then-US ambassador, the next morning. Johnson, who had known Trump for decades, offered: \u201cMy own judgment is, after the first four years and maybe to this day, of all the people that he met, the Queen had the most special relationship, the most special impact on him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later, the president gave me a rundown on their conversation that night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said: \u2018So could I ask you who was your favourite president?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The Queen replied: \u201cWhy? They were all so good.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know, but did you like Ronald Reagan the best?\u201d Trump asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, yes, I liked him very much, but they were all good.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, well, what about Nixon?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, he was excellent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo what do you mean you liked them all?\u201d Trump pressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI liked them all. I can\u2019t say anything bad about any of them. They were great.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOK, let\u2019s go to prime ministers. Who was your favourite prime minister? It had to be Churchill, right?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, no, no. He was wonderful, Winston. But they were all so good. They worked so hard. They were very different, but they worked so hard. They were all so good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump was dazzled by her skill at charming deflection. \u201cI said to myself, how genius is this?\u201d he said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t get her to say a bad thing about anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Trump could hardly find the words to describe his conversations with her. \u201cShe had a way of convincing people in the most non-controversial way,\u201d he said. That trait was \u201csort of the opposite of me\u201d, he added ruefully. \u201cYou would leave, and you wouldn\u2019t even know that she was in favour of something, and yet she would convince you that there was a certain way to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barack Obama<\/a> had also been struck by her discussion, and dissection, of the leaders she had encountered over decades. During his own state visit on May 24 2011, <\/strong>he had asked her about every president she had known: \u201c\u2018What about Eisenhower?\u2019 \u2018What about Kennedy?\u2019\u201d While she didn\u2019t rank them, Obama\u2019s deputy national security advisor, Ben Rhodes, said it was clear she liked some more than others. She was astute and pithy in assessing the foreign leaders she had met. At the time, the Arab Spring was convulsing the Middle East<\/a>, and the Obama administration had found itself struggling to deal with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>. The Queen\u2019s perfunctory comment: \u201cBibi. Difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.telegraph.co.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That was the start of an evening of lively conversation between the late Queen and Trump. \u201cI was in the groove,\u201d he told Woody Johnson, a billionaire businessman and then-US ambassador, the next morning. Johnson, who had known Trump for decades, offered: \u201cMy own judgment is, after the first four years and maybe to this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2370530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[22466,22389,21888,21738,387181,460878,24085,22769,344742,441762,24515,345946,356051,382398],"class_list":["post-2370529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-joe-biden","tag-news","tag-other-features","tag-premium-inclusion","tag-queen-elizabeth-ii","tag-royal-family","tag-standard","tag-telegraph-long-reads","tag-the-royal-family","tag-top-story","tag-uk-news","tag-us-content"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/The-behind-the-scenes-story-of-Trumps-relationship-with-Elizabeth-II.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2370529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370531,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2370529\/revisions\/2370531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2370529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2370529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2370529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}