“In the centuries since we won our independence, Americans have never had a closer friend than the British,” Trump said. Using a phrase valued by British governments since it was first used by Winston Churchill after World War II, Trump said the two countries had a “special relationship, and we hope it will always remain that way.”Trump also praised the British military, saying that despite recently deriding Britain’s two aircraft carriers as “toys”, “nobody has ever fought a better fight than the United States”.