As a result, he said, the pair have found a way to form “a union of common interest” despite their ideological differences.

Trump has confirmed he will meet the Prime Minister in Aberdeen later this month, with the President visiting his Turnberry golf course.

But Starmer will be heading north of the border just days after figures from FocalData revealed his party had the backing of just 23 per cent of Britons.

Now, Goodman has told GB News: “The latest opinion polls in the United Kingdom about his leadership… I think they’re at all-time lows.

“I saw him down to like 23 per cent approval. I think on most scorecards, he’s had – at best – a stumbling first year in office.

“He’s now facing increasing inflation, dissatisfaction with some of the other programmes that he’s put into play. I think he’s got to go outside his normal party comfort zone.

“The President of the United States and Keir Starmer have developed a union of common interest, right where both of them can profit from doing things together.

“If Starmer becomes the gateway for Donald Trump in terms of a conversation into the rest of western Europe, that’s a big score for Starmer.

“If the trade and tariff situation ends up being somewhat resolved between Great Britain and the United States, that’s a big deal, because Trump is looking for early wins on the tariff front.

“Our view from America is Starmer is relatively technocratic and stiff.

“Yet, by latching on to Donald Trump, who has a lot of those things, he inherits something he doesn’t have naturally, and that’s something he can use.”

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Goodman also warned that the US “needs allies” in what he dubbed “the new world”, adding: “What better ally than Great Britain to be right there by his side.”

But other senior Republicans took a more hardline look at the Starmer-Trump relationship – issuing a severe warning to the Prime Minister.

North Carolina Congressman Pat Harrigan told GB News: “President Trump understands the stakes in our shared fight to restore strength and sovereignty across the West.

“If Starmer is serious about standing up to China, securing borders, and rebuilding industry, he’ll find a willing partner in Trump… but empty gestures won’t cut it.”

Trump plans to visit his golf properties in Scotland later this month in a repeat of a trip he made in 2016 during his first successful run for the White House.

He will be descending on his Turnberry and Aberdeen golf properties on a four-day trip – where he will also discuss the trade deal confirmed earlier this year.

The President said: “We are going to have a meeting with [Starmer], probably in Aberdeen. And we’re going to do a lot of different things, also refine the trade deal that we’ve made.”

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Trump is also scheduled to meet First Minister John Swinney, a fierce Trump critic.

Swinney told Sky News: “I’ve taken a decision that’s in Scotland’s interest to meet with the President of the United States so that I can use every opportunity to protect and to promote the interests of the people of Scotland.

“There’s obviously a range of issues that we can cover around the international situation that’s causing such anxiety to people in Scotland.

“[This includes] the situation in the Middle East, and the situation in Ukraine, and the domestic issues that are important to us around about the implications of, for example, trade and tariffs on some of our key sectors, including Scotch whisky.”