The relationship between the United Kingdom and United States is apparently special enough that President Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron have a full-on bromance.
{mosads}The British leader said in an interview published Sunday by the Daily Mail that Obama “sometimes calls me ‘bro’ ” when the two are speaking over the phone.
“The president has said the special relationship is stronger than it has ever been privately and in public and I agree,” Cameron said.
Cameron and Obama have been frequent partners on international crises, including efforts to respond to Russia’s incursion into Ukraine and the battle against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. They also memorably traveled together to Ohio for a March Madness basketball game in 2012 ahead of a state dinner in Cameron’s honor, and played table tennis during a presidential visit to England the prior year.
Former President George W. Bush created headlines when a live microphone picked up him informally addressing former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at a G-8 summit in 2006.
“Yo, Blair. How are you doing?” Bush said, launching into a discussion of ways they could move Syria into pressuring Hezbollah to halt attacks against Israel.
“See the irony is that what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit and it’s over,” Bush said.