As the President heads into the second leg of his trip to Europe, he’s showing no signs of backing off of his campaign to alienate every single other world leader that used to call the United States an ally.
As he heads to Buckingham Palace for a black-tie dinner event, British newspaper the Sun revealed that Trump had given them an exclusive interview – one in which he trashes his British counterpart, Prime Minister Theresa May, for her poor handling of the Brexit negotiations, among other things.
https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/1017517184954830848
The president tore into May, scolding her for not taking his “advice” on how to Brexit, made ominous threats about canceling US-UK trade deals if the UK proceeds with the “soft Brexit” extended withdrawal from the European Union.
He even dared to float a possible replacement for May in the recently resigned Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, who is similar to Trump in that they are both racist, ignorant buffoons with awful hair.
Trump also reveals to me PM ignored his advice on Brexit negotiations: “I would have done it much differently. I actually told Theresa May how to do it, but she didn’t listen to me".
— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) July 12, 2018
Trump said Boris Johnson "would be a great prime minister" while bashing May and saying "I am not pitting one against the other." pic.twitter.com/InAIfIZhNh
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2018
The president then launched into an unabashed blood-and-soil white nationalist rant against British immigration policies and his British nemesis, London Mayor Sadiq Khan, blaming him for “terrorism” and the nonexistent “spiraling crime.”
The Sun has posted Trump's quotes at length. He said Sadiq Khan has done a "very bad job on crime" and "very bad job on terrorism." https://t.co/69hCZfSq9S pic.twitter.com/ocDsWMSS0X
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2018
Trump’s animosity for Khan stems from a pre-election interview in which Khan calls Trump “ignorant” – and the president has never forgiven him. Seeing as Khan is a person of color and a Muslim, it’s pretty clear there’s something else driving the President’s incessant attacks on the man.
Not content to be rude and racist in his introduction to the British people, Trump also made some absolutely ridiculous boasts, like how he was more “popular than Lincoln,” who lived before telephones and any kind of popularity poll.
Man. Trump repeated his false claim about how polls show he's the most popular Republican with Republicans, ever (Bush was higher) — then added, "Beating Lincoln. I beat our Honest Abe." They…did not do scientific popularity polls of Republicans in 1861.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 12, 2018
While Trump’s behavior at the NATO summit was bad, this is a whole other level of disgraceful. For the President of the United States to travel to a foreign country and then openly spout white supremacist talking points in a surprise hit piece on the leader of one of our closest allies is beyond reprehensible, even if that leader is awful and should be replaced.
The one silver lining is that some pundits believe this interview might be the tipping point to wrecking the Conservative Party’s majority and replacing right-wing plutocrat May with one of the world’s most stalwart progressives in Jeremy Corbyn, the absolute boy, who really is about to do it.
This is the sort of event that could conceivably topple May's government. And lead to an election that Labour–and Jeremy Corbyn–could win.
Have to think that wasn't Trump's grand strategy play here.
— Jeff B. (@EsotericCD) July 12, 2018
While accusations that Trump is a literal Russian agent are a little too far off the rails, it cannot be denied that he is systematically and doggedly going out of his way to insult and offend the nations that have stood by us for the past six decades – all to the benefit of the Kremlin, who has been trying to drive a wedge in the Western alliances for years. We need Robert Mueller to finish his investigation as quickly as possible before the damage becomes irreperable.
