Thanks to Washington correspondents Mark Stone and David Blevins for answering so many questions, and sorry if we didn’t answer yours.
We’ll have the full opening policy live on Monday on Sky News platforms.
This refers to a previous press conference held by Donald Trump this month.
The president-elect said he would try to remember the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America,” a call he said “sounds great. ”
Simply, “there is no formal international agreement relating to the naming of international maritime area”, correspondent David Blevins says.
“You can play in front of your own audience, but whether others pay attention is another matter,” he adds.
U. S. correspondent Mark Stone says politicians are pragmatic and “will make them get along. “
The special relationship between the two nations is “deep”, his father is the UK ambassador to the US, who will be Lord Mandelson, and has “an incredible job”, Stone says.
“It is a tricky relationship: politically, Trump and Starmer are not aligned at all, but they need to get on.”
It is made all the more tricky by the fact that Elon Musk “appears to have it in for Starmer”, Stone adds.
Starmer has been very careful with his words about the president-elect so far, he says.
Correspondent David Blevins says Lord Mandelson has the ability to walk a political tightrope.
The politician returned “from the political desert” to the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland after the Good Friday Agreement.
“He’s accomplished a lot in this kind of polarized environment and he’s going to have to take advantage of that when he gets to the United States,” Blevins says.
Lord Mandelson has “the delight and capacity” for this kind of environment, he says.
We will know to what extent we will have to take their crusade promises literally, believes our correspondent David Blevins.
On the first day of his first term, he signed one executive order – but, this time, we may lose count of the number of orders he could make, he adds.
These measures may be accompanied by new immigration legislation and even an amnesty for some of those convicted of their participation in the January 6 riots.
It could even postpone the TikTok ban for 90 days, an interesting option given that the company’s CEO was invited to the inauguration, Blevins adds.
US correspondent Mark Stone recalls a conversation with a Trump advisor, who told him “watch this space” – he will have a “pile” of orders to sign on day one.
Executive orders can be revoked through Congress, but Stone claims his Republican Party has a majority there and therefore they must be revoked.
“Trump has always said he would confront Ukraine very soon. The question is how to do it?” » asks American correspondent Mark Stone in response to this question.
The key is balancing the needs of the Ukrainian people with what Russia will realistically agree to, he says.
He cites JD Vance’s comments about existing battlefield lines as ceasefire lines as the ultimate probably Trumpian peace plan.
Russia currently occupies about a fifth of Ukraine’s territory, so existing war lines would be frozen and constitute a demilitarized zone.
In the short term, this would allow Trump to say he has stopped the war.
“For Trump, what he’s worried about is the short term. ”
But this sends a message to Vladimir Putin.
“He may well think to push west long after Trump has gone,” he says.
Correspondent David Blevins says Joe Biden thinks that’s the case.
In his farewell address, the president didn’t spend much time recalling his memories, but he warned of an oligarchy of wealth, strength and influence, Blevins says.
Biden spoke about social media giants moving away from fact-checking and said there is “very genuine concern” about the risk to democracy.
US correspondent Mark Stone adds that most of Biden’s speech was about oligarchy rather than dictatorship.
Biden considered it “clearly unhealthy,” Stone says, for other people like Elon Musk, and 12 other billionaires, to serve in the Trump administration.
Musk perceived Biden as an “unbridled power broker,” Stone says.
It depends on what the user has to gain and lose, explains our correspondent David Blevins.
Elon Musk has been appointed to head a branch of government that, to some extent, has a say over his own business empire, and having the world’s richest man on his side may just be Donald Trump.
But familiarity can breed contempt, and Trump likes to be front and center, so disorders can arise if the president-elect feels he is being overshadowed.
US correspondent Mark Stone says they’ve been on a normal journey, from not getting along very well to Musk now being considered co-chairman in some cases.
But it’s a symbiotic relationship at the moment, he adds, with Musk helping to bankroll some of Trump’s campaign.
If it collapses, it will be spectacular, he says.
US correspondent Mark Stone says that despite Donald Trump’s claims that he needs NATO countries to massively increase defence spending, he doesn’t think the new president expects anyone to achieve the crazy target of 5% of GDP. .
“Not even America spends that,” he notes.
NATO asks its members to spend 2% of their GDP (at least) on defense.
“What he’s doing is going in with a high bid” in the hope that countries could meet him in the middle, Stone says.
But we can take a look back at his previous tenure, when he insisted that the other countries in the alliance pay their “fair share,” and some countries fell short of the 2% target.
“Donald Trump can be credited with countries spending more on defense,” Stone says.
That being said, the alliance has done a lot of work to “Trump-proof” itself – particularly when it comes to being able to sustainably fund Ukraine even in the eventuality that the US pulls all support for Kyiv.
“Is NATO under threat? Possibly,” he says, “but is NATO under pressure? Definitely.”
Correspondent David Blevins says his first reaction is “never say never. “
Trump has been “emboldened” by his victories in Congress and the presidency, he adds.
“We have this disruptor surrounded by disruptors. “
US correspondent Mark Stone explains Trump said he wouldn’t rule out force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal, while saying Canada should become the 51st state of America.
Trump’s approach is to go into a negotiation with something “mad and crazy” to begin with, says Stone.
Even if you think “in the end he won’t. ”
“But I think it’s possible that we’ll see more American influence in Greenland in the coming years. “
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