Trump's relationship with the media has been, shall we say, fractious to date - from his deeming CNN "fake news" to his press secretary's various run-ins with the members of the press.

But he hadn't seen nothing until the Brits rolled into town.

Eschewing the Lifezette school of easy questioning, Laura Kuenssberg from BBC News turned up to Trump's joint conference with British Prime Minister Theresa May with this epic poser:

"Prime Minister, you've talked about where you agree, but you have also said you would be frank where you disagree with the president. Can you tell us where in your talks you did disagree, and do you think that the president listened to what you had to say?"

If that wasn't enough, her question for the president was even tougher.

"Mr. President, you said before that torture works. You have praised Russia. You said you wanted to ban some Muslims from coming to America. You've suggested there should be punishment for abortion. For many people in Britain, those sound like alarming beliefs. What do you say to our viewers at home who are worried about some of your views and worried about you becoming the leader of the free world?"

Ouch. And Trump was not impressed. "This was your choice of a question?" he asked, looking at Theresa May, before quipping into his mic, "there goes that relationship."

"That was your choice of question? There goes that relationship" - President Donald Trump speaking about @BBC pic.twitter.com/762JO4mX7E — Mashable News (@MashableNews) January 27, 2017

U.S. (and some UK) journalists, however, were impressed with the approach.

Holy shit do we need the british press at every trump event — John Zaremba (@johnzaremba) January 27, 2017

God bless @bbclaurak for that Q. Trump looks mighty pissed.

US journos - take some notes from the Brits :-) — Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) January 27, 2017

Measly 4 questions in Trump-May media conference but the 2 British hacks called @bbclaurak & @tnd_film showed the Americans how to be direct — Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) January 27, 2017

May went on to prevaricate and not really say anything in response to her question while Trump pretty much said he would rely on Mattis to decide about torture and then went on to discuss Putin in broad terms.

In other news, we learnt that Trump and May are "in favor" of NATO and that Trump has accepted an invitation from the Queen for a state visit later this year. We'll see how that goes down with the Brits.