Trump asked May at debut meeting why Boris Johnson was not PM, book says

Former president reportedly asked indelicate question at White House in January 2017 when Johnson was foreign secretary

In his first White House meeting with a major foreign leader, Donald Trump asked Theresa May: Why isn't Boris Johnson the prime minister? Didn't he want the job?"

At the time, the notoriously ambitious Johnson was foreign secretary. He became prime minister two years later, in 2019, after May was forced to resign.