Trump ‘seriously thinking’ about a run in 2024, says Farage 

Donald Trump is “thinking very, very hard” about running as president in 2024 and is in “listening mode” at his home in Mar-a-Lago, where he met with Nigel Farage on Monday.

Over half an hour at the Palm Beach resort, the pair discussed Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Britain’s vaccine roll-out and postal voting, in what the former Brexit party leader described as a “meeting of friends”.

Mr Trump “has got a massive decision to make” and is “thinking very, very hard”, Mr Farage told The Daily Telegraph about a potential third run for the presidency.

At one point, Mr Farage told Mr Trump: “You’re the only guy that can do it. No one has your charisma.”

Asked about the response, Mr Farage said: “He listened. He’s in a listening frame of mind.”

The 74-year-old expressed his unhappiness “at the way the last election was conducted” and now believes that the Democrats are “drifting to the left”, Mr Farage said.

In a wide-ranging conversation held in Mr Trump’s office, the former president was described as being “in a remarkably private mode, not a broadcast mode” and expressed his concern for the queen and his sorrow that she is “going through a really tough time”, following the death of her husband, Prince Philip.

“His admiration for her is unrivalled with anybody else in the world,” said Mr Farage.

“I don’t think he respects anybody else quite like he does the queen. He loves the UK and he loves the queen. He was concerned at the pictures of her being by herself, looking cut up. He reaffirmed his huge respect for what she does.”

Mr Trump also heaped praise on Boris Johnson and Britain’s vaccine programme.

“He continues to wish Boris Johnson well. He was very excited to hear about the vaccine rollout in Britain compared to Europe, which was tremendous,” said Mr Farage.

“It basically reaffirmed his view on Brexit and was pretty positive that this thing works.

“He understands that a lot of these political arguments cross in a way that makes the pond look very small.”

Mr Trump “continues to be very hopeful for UK-US relations to get closer and still wants a US-UK trade deal to be done”, said Mr Farage.

Mr Farage said that the 45th president had lost weight and was looking fit. “He’s playing lots of golf and loving it.”