Did Finland’s President Win Over Trump on the Golf Course? | Exclusive with Palki Sharma | N18G

Did Finland’s President Win Over Trump on the Golf Course? | Exclusive with Palki Sharma | N18G

Best wishes to you. You’ve also made the US president happy at a time when a lot of world leaders are are struggling to uh sort of have a working relationship or a warm relationship with him. You seem to have cracked the code. How did you do it? Was it investment, trade, golf? What’s Well, no. I I mean, I don’t want to inflate my relationship with the president of the United States, but of course, he’s the most powerful man in the world. And the fact that I, as president of Finland, coming from a relatively small country, have been able to hit a chord with him, I feel very grateful for that. Uh it probably all started from golf. Uh Lindsey Graham, senator, got us together uh in Florida and I used to play golf quite seriously when I was young. I so serious I wanted to become professional but then I kind of quit for 35 years and I was the first uh foreign leader with whom he played golf and we hit it off quite well. Um there’s also um you know transactional relationship here in the sense that the United States uh needs ice breakers and we now have a deal on that. Uh we’re very good in technology. We work on that together. We bought uh 64 F-35s from the US. So, you know, it’s it’s partially social and personal and then part partially really state-to-state based.

In this exclusive interview, Finnish President Alexander Stubb shares a lighter moment from diplomacy—playing golf with U.S. President Donald Trump. Speaking to Firstpost Managing Editor Palki Sharma, President Stubb reveals how the game helped build rapport and foster direct communication with the U.S. leader.

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