Macron's second day visiting Trump: French president proposes 'new' Iran nuclear deal in gamble to keep USA on board, as it happened

Mr Trump and Mr Macron are negotiating all day on a range of issues including nuclear proliferation, climate change, and trade

President Macron arrives at the White House for Trump meeting

Donald Trump has given his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron a red carpet welcome at the White House.

The US president and first lady greeted Mr Macron and his wife, Brigitte, in a ceremonial welcome Tuesday morning which saw nearly 500 US service-members from all five military branches participate in a ”Review of the Troops”.

The two leaders later held a joint press conference in which they announced progress on a range of issues, including the potential that they could begin negotiating a "new" Iran nuclear deal that would leave the current one largely in-tact.

Mr Macron is on a three-day official state visit to the US, the first in Mr Trump’s presidency.

On Monday, the presidents took a helicopter tour of Washington monuments and then went on a trip to the Potamic River home of George Washington for dinner.

Aside from the pomp and ceremony, Mr Trump and Mr Macron agree on some fundamental issues.

One main point of contention is the multinational nuclear deal aimed at restricting Iran’s development of nuclear weapons, which Mr Trump wants to abandon.

Mr Trump ended his first year in office without receiving a foreign leader on a state visit, making him the first president in nearly 100 years to fail to do so.

Last July, he was Mr Macron’s guest at the annual Bastille Day military parade in the centre of Paris.

Key Points

• Mr Macron said that he is willing to negotiate a 'new' Iran nuclear deal that builds on the current base — Mr Trump signalled that he may be open to the idea
• Mr Trump repeatedly called the Iran nuclear deal a disaster while visiting with Mr Macron, and said the country is behind a lot of the world's troubles
• While bragging about the warm relationship he has with Mr Macron, took the opportunity to brush what he said was 'dandruff' off of the French president's shoulder

[24 April 2018 22:08 · Kristin Hugo]

That's a wrap on today's coverage of French President Emmanuel Macron's second day visiting in Washington.

We hope you have — or had — as nice of a dinner as the folks in the White House tonight.