White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders attempted to throw cold water on some of the President’s vitriolic critique of UK Prime Minister Theresa May, clarifying to the White House press pool that Trump thinks May is “really terrific.”
“The President likes and respects Prime Minister May very much,” she said in a statement. “As he said in his interview with the Sun she ‘is a very good person’ and he ‘never said anything bad about her.’ He thought she was great on NATO today and is a really terrific person. He is thankful for the wonderful welcome from the Prime Minister here in the U.K.”
Ahead of his visit to London, President Donald Trump gave an exclusive interview to a British tabloid, The Sun. Among his many scathing remarks about May, Trump criticized her handling of Brexit, bragging that May ignored his advice and suggested that her soft stance would “kill” any future chance of an effective trade deal with the U.S.
“If they do a deal like that, we would be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK, so it will probably kill the deal,” he told the Sun. “We are cracking down right now on the European Union because they have not treated the United States fairly on trading.”
In the interview, which published while Trump and May were having dinner together, he also suggested that Boris Johnson, who recently resigned as the UK foreign secretary over May’s plan to maintain close trade ties with the EU, would “make a great Prime Minister.”
Among other insults, he said EU leaders were destroying the culture of Europe by accepting millions of immigrants; blamed the London mayor for crime and terrorism in the city; said he felt “unwelcome” in London over the anti-Trump protests and the baby blimp, while insisting that British people love his policies.
Who you gonna believe? Me or your lyin’ eyes?
I’m sorry but, for the life of me, I just don’t understand why 10 Downing agreed to this fiasco (Rump visit and Brexit). If any situation defined the word “shambolic” this was it. What did the English hope to gain from this? I’m also not clear as to why May is slow walking Brexit. The fact of the matter is, it’s happening and it’s probably going to wreck the country. Get on with it.
Oh, and a bilateral trade deal with the US means very little for the English economy.
She’s not slow walking Brexit, she’s trying to figure out WTF Brexit actually means, because the pro-Brexit faction gave zero thought to that.
But why they let trump go to the UK is beyond me, that’s one embarrassment they could have saved themselves.
Translation of White House Statement: Donald Trump really has no fucking idea about how to be President or conduct any of his important duties. Not the substantive ones. Not even the purely ceremonial ones. He lacks the intelligence, has no culture, and absolutely no awareness of his own abject ignorance.
Secretary Sanders is a vile, lying, hateful person. I’ll have my press secretary clarifying those statements shortly.