While Donald Trump may have gotten off on an awkward foot during his first meeting with Queen Elizabeth in 2018, according to him, the 2019 visit went swimmingly. He told Piers Morgan (via Fox News) that his mother was always enamored with Queen Elizabeth and the royals, so Trump told the queen about that. “She was honored,” he said. 

According to what Trump told Morgan, the pair had a “great rapport” and they had a “conversation that lasted an hour and a half,” but he declined to say what they talked about, joking he didn’t think he was supposed to share that information. He also spoke with Fox News host Laura Ingraham (via YouTube) about the D-Day visit that he and Queen Elizabeth had “automatic chemistry” and called her a “spectacular woman.” Trump said, “The meeting with the queen was incredible. I think I can say I really got to know her because I sat with her many times.” The Irish Times reported that Trump told Ingraham,”There are those that say they have never seen the queen have a better time, a more animated time.”

While there were plenty of photographs of Trump and the queen looking chummy and pleasant, according to CNN, Buckingham Palace said Trump’s comments “are not something we would comment on.”