Vice President JD Vance on Friday cast a few lines out when trout-fishing with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy while in England to discuss US-UK relations, Gaza and Ukraine.
While the veep and Lammy didn’t catch any fish, Vance’s three kids were with him — and they all did.
“Unfortunately, the one strain on the special relationship is that all of my kids caught a fish, but the foreign secretary and I did not,” the VP quipped.
Vance said he and Lammy first became friends when he was a US senator and Lammy took the time to visit with him during a trip to DC.
“Obviously, we come from sort of different political spectrums, but he was, he was kind enough to make time on a visit to DC,” the veep told reporters. “We got to know each other a little bit then and just kept on seeing each other. And our families enjoy each other’s company very much, which always helps.”
The US-UK relationship has been blooming under President Trump. The UK was the first country to strike a trade deal with the US, and Trump recently went to Scotland to golf and meet with Prime Minister Keir Starmer to iron out more details of the deal.
Trump is set to go back to the UK in September to attend his second state dinner there at the invitation of King Charles.
But Starmer also indicated in July that the UK would move to recognize a Palestinian state in September if Israel doesn’t change its humanitarian treatment of Gaza — creating tension with the Trump administration, which has said it would not recognize Palestine.
“Obviously, the United Kingdom is going to make its decision. We have no plans to recognize a Palestinian state,” Vance said. “I don’t know what it would mean to really recognize a Palestinian state, given the lack of a functional government there.”
Vance also doubled down on his commitment to free speech, saying the West got “too comfortable with censoring” under the Biden administration.
“I’ve raised some criticism because concerns about our friends on this side of the Atlantic,” he said of censorship.
“But the thing that I’d say to the people of England or anybody else, to David, is many of the things that I worry most about were happening in the United States from 2020 to 2024. I just don’t want other countries to follow us down what I think was a very dark path under the Biden administration.”
Vance is also expected to visit US troops on his trip to the UK, a source familiar told The Post.
