President Joe Biden and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson took separate trips from New York to Washington on Tuesday to meet at the White House amid rising tensions with the French.
The two leaders were in New York for the UN General Assembly meeting but didn't meet face to face there. Instead their sit down on Tuesday evening will be in the Oval Office of the White House, a symbol of power and more recognizable backdrop.
It's Johnson's first trip to the White House, a visit he never made during Donald Trump's presidency, partially due to the COVID pandemic.
The British prime minister took the train from New York City to Washington D.C. a move the president - who earned the nickname 'Amtrak Joe' when he commuted daily from Wilmington, Del., to the nation's Capitol as a senator - will no doubt appreciate. Biden on Tuesday took Air Force One back to Washington.
The two men previously met in person in June at the G7 meeting in Cornwall.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson takes a train from Penn Station in New York to Washington DC for his meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House
Prime Minister Boris Johnson, with aide David Blair (left), prepares for the meeting during the train ride
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Foreign Secretary Liz Truss arrive in Washington DC - it's Johnson's first White House meeting as prime minister
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Johnson gushed over Biden in an interview with NBC's Today Show.
'What I will say about Joe Biden and dealing with the new American president, yes, it is a breath of fresh air in the sense of the some things on which we can really really work together, and you knew I was gonna bring it up — climate change — he's great on that,' he said.
Johnson said the UK would seek a good relationship with whoever was in the White
