President Donald J. Trump continued his whirlwind of international diplomacy on Monday by meeting with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his Turnberry golf course in Scotland—just 24 hours after hammering out a historic trade deal with the European Union.

Standing side-by-side before reporters, President Trump directly confronted Starmer over the growing crisis of illegal immigration, urging the British leader to adopt the same uncompromising approach his administration has used to secure America’s southern border.

“Well, immigration is a big, big factor. And I think, frankly, if they’re coming from other countries and you don’t know who they are and are they coming from prisons, we have them where they came in from prisons, we’re moving them all out,” Trump declared. “We had a border last last June… we had zero people come into the country, zero, other than come in through legal means. If you’re stopping immigration and stopping the wrong people… you’re doing a fantastic thing.”

Trump went further, warning that European nations are at risk of losing their cultural identity if they fail to take immigration control seriously.

“If the boats are loaded up with bad people—and they usually are because, you know, other countries don’t send their best—they send people that they don’t want,” Trump continued. “Europe is a much different place than it was just 5 years ago, 10 years ago. And they’ve got to get their act together. If they don’t, you’re not going to have Europe anymore, as you know it.”

Starmer responded by defending his government’s recent efforts:

“Yeah, we’ve done a lot of work stopping them coming. We just signed an agreement to return them. And we’ve returned 35,000, in fact, on the first year of this Labour government, the people who shouldn’t be in this country,” the prime minister said.

Trump, however, didn’t let up.

“You cannot let people come in here illegally,” Trump said. “And what happens is there’ll be murderers, there’ll be drug dealers, there’ll be all sorts of things that other countries don’t want. And they send them to you and they send them to us. And you’ve got to stop them. And I hear that you’ve taken a very strong stand on immigration. And taking a strong stand on immigration is imperative.”

Trump Tightens the Screws on Putin

President Trump also used the occasion to issue a sharp warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin, slashing the 50-day ultimatum he originally gave the Kremlin to reach a peace agreement down to just 10–12 days.

“I’m going to make a new deadline, of about 10, 10 or 12 days from today,” Trump told reporters in Scotland. “There’s no reason for waiting. It was 50 days, I wanted to be generous, but we just don’t see any progress being made. I’m disappointed in President Putin, very disappointed in him.”

On July 14, Trump met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in Washington, D.C., and announced the initial 50-day ultimatum. But Monday’s announcement cuts that timeline in half and sends a strong signal to Moscow.

The president’s comments came just hours after Russia launched more than 300 drones and missiles across Ukraine, prompting emergency air defense responses not only from Kyiv but also from Poland’s military, which scrambled fighter jets as a precaution.

“We’re going to have to look, and I’m going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number, because I think I already know the answer,” Trump said.

President Trump’s firm stance highlights a two-pronged approach: cracking down on illegal immigration at home and abroad while increasing international pressure on adversaries like Russia.