(VIDEO) Prime Minister May and United States President Obama Statement at the G20 Summit

Prime Minister May and President Obama of the United States Remarks After the Bilateral Meeting at the G20 Summit

JW Marriott Hotel
Hangzhou, China

President Obama:  Good morning, everybody.  I want to begin by saying what a pleasure it was for me to meet with Prime Minister May and congratulate her on becoming Prime Minister.  We’ve had occasion to be together before in other settings, but this is the first time that I had a chance to address her as Madam Prime Minister.  I’m glad that Theresa and I could meet early in her tenure.  The Prime Minister continues to be a steadying influence during a time of transition.

     It was a wide-ranging conversation, but it began with the basic premise that even as the UK pursues an orderly exit from the EU, together, we reaffirm the very special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom.  It will not simply endure, but it will continue to grow

Theresa May - New U.K. Prime Minister

Theresa May became Britain's prime minister on July 13, 2016 after David Cameron, stepped down. Cameron's time in office was brought to an end after his failed campaign to keep the United Kingdom in the European Union.

She has appointed the New York Born former mayor of London, Boris Johnson, as foreign secretary on her first day as P. M. He's brash and leads with undiplomatic comments much like the other New Yorker, Donald Trump. Johnson has described President Obama as "part-Kenyan" with an "ancestral dislike" of the British empire. His take on Hillary Clinton was that she is “like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital.”

We will be following along with the new P.M.