--- title: Theresa May Meeting With President Donald Trump: Watch Live description: Watch British Prime Minister Theresa May's meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office and their ensuing joint press conference. canonical: https://time.com/4651625/theresa-may-president-trump/ author: Kate Samuelson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-01-27T16:02:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T10:39:34.640Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Prime Minister Theresa May's Meeting With President Trump og:description: May is seizing the opportunity to bolster the U.S./U.K. relationship og:url: https://time.com/4651625/theresa-may-president-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt831e25156fb5c3d7/6988b7908fd2ee65a63558eb/gettyimages-632839186.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4104 og:image:height: 2309 og:image:alt: Prime Minister Theresa May Lays Wreath At Tomb Of Unknown Soldier In Arlington National Cemetery og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Prime Minister Theresa May's Meeting With President Trump twitter:description: May is seizing the opportunity to bolster the U.S./U.K. relationship twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt831e25156fb5c3d7/6988b7908fd2ee65a63558eb/gettyimages-632839186.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Prime Minister Theresa May's Meeting With President Trump > Sponsored content. 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British Prime Minister Theresa May lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Solider in Arlington National Cemetery on January 27, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia. Christopher Furlong—Getty Images by [Kate Samuelson](https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/) ## Kate Samuelson Jan 27, 2017 4:02 PM UTC British Prime Minister [Theresa May is meeting](http://time.com/4651110/theresa-may-philadelphia-visit/) with President [Donald Trump](http://time.com/4651464/mexico-donald-trump-boycott-protests/) in the Oval Office, which will be followed by a joint press conference in what is the first visit by a foreign leader to the White House since last week’s inauguration. Earlier today, May laid a wreath of poppies at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. May’s [meeting with Trump](http://time.com/4651110/theresa-may-philadelphia-visit/) this afternoon is expected to last about an hour. May, who is seizing the opportunity to bolster what she called the trans-Atlantic “special relationship,” said in a speech Thursday that the start of Trump’s term is “a new era of American renewal.” However, she also rejected the president’s suggestion that torture might be acceptable, as well as rebuffed some of his foreign-policy views. After flying into Philadelphia yesterday, May told a gathering of Republican lawmakers at their annual Congressional retreat that a Britain outside the EU and the U.S. under Trump can “lead together again” in the world, as they did when they set up the United Nations, NATO and other international organizations the new president has strongly criticized. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4651625/theresa-may-president-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4651625/theresa-may-president-trump/"},"headline":"Watch Prime Minister Theresa May's Meeting With President Trump","datePublished":"2017-01-27T16:02:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T10:39:34.640Z","description":"May is seizing the opportunity to bolster the U.S./U.K. relationship","url":"https://time.com/4651625/theresa-may-president-trump/","keywords":["international relations","United Kingdom","Foreign Relations","Theresa May","onetime","president trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt831e25156fb5c3d7/6988b7908fd2ee65a63558eb/gettyimages-632839186.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kate Samuelson","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt831e25156fb5c3d7/6988b7908fd2ee65a63558eb/gettyimages-632839186.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Prime Minister Theresa May Lays Wreath At Tomb Of Unknown Soldier In Arlington National Cemetery","caption":"Prime Minister Theresa May Lays Wreath At Tomb Of Unknown Soldier In Arlington National Cemetery","creditText":"Christopher Furlong—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/international-relations/","name":"international relations"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4651625/theresa-may-president-trump/","name":"Watch Prime Minister Theresa May's Meeting With President Trump"}}]}] ```