CLEVELAND – Nigel Farage, the ex-leader of the UK Independence Party who pushed for the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, praised some aspects of Donald Trump’s recent NATO posturing, but stopped short of suggesting the alliance should be done away with altogether.
“I think his first position where he said NATO should pay its way, I think he’s right,” Farage told TPM from the floor of the Quicken Loans Arena Thursday afternoon. “But I wouldn’t scrap it, I would just redefine what it is.”
In an interview with the New York Times Wednesday, Trump floated breaking the terms of the U.S.’s NATO obligations if other member countries did not fulfill theirs. NATO’s chief as well as leaders of participating countries have pushed back against the comments.
If Rump thinks that getting a compliment from the UKIP leader who pushed for Brexit, got it and then ran for the hills is worth sh*t, he’s a goddamn fool.
The cowardly, lying asshat or is there another Nigel Farage?
Trump and Farage, the dynamic duo of demagoguery.
This cat can’t even pay for the NHS like he promised. Who the hell is he to be talking?
Edit: all this bullshit during the centenary of the Great War, with complete obliviousness. I guess it’s true: all this has happened before, and all this will happen again.
I think it would be appropriate to hear from the UK Foreign Secretary, who is never shy in expressing himself.