US President in the UK – Trump Dupes May – Politics

• US President Trump arrived on Thursday for a working visit to the United Kingdom
• . Prior to that, he granted a sorry interview to the British tabloid The Sun, in which, for example, Theresa May's opponent praises Boris Johnson as potential prime minister. 1965-19002] Trump never avoided an opportunity to provoke the old ally.

By Thorsten Denkler New York

US President Trump had often told the British and their government what he thinks of them. It was not always nice to pay attention. But what he had to say to the British revolver sheet "The Sun" now in an exclusive interview, once again pushes all the boundaries. Just before midnight, the story is online Thursday night. Just in time for the end of the gala dinner at Blenheim Palace, the family home of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Prime Minister Theresa May invited Trump to do so. Above all, the meeting was supposed to produce beautiful pictures.

It is not certain that Trump prepared the British Prime Minister for the interview. If so, then he should have told her something fair, like: Theresa, I told the sun good things about you. And I said that Boris Johnson would be a good Prime Minister

If dinner was a set for a Hollywood movie, then that would have been the moment when May should have slapped the US president to leave the room without a word. 19659013] The month of May is in the midst of a government crisis. Only last Friday, after a 12-hour session, she convinced her firm to approve her plan to leave the European Union. He is looking for some kind of free trade zone with the EU. What the tough Brexit group strictly rejects. On Sunday, she lost her Brexit Minister David Davis. Foreign Minister Boris Johnson resigned on Monday. Now, there is a power struggle to be feared, in which Johnson might try to challenge May's post as prime minister.

And then Trump arrives and verbally knocks several knives in the back. He told May how to approach negotiations with the EU, he said in the interview. "But she did not agree, she did not listen to me." Instead, she had gone in the opposite direction. Trump would have preferred to see if Britain does the hard Brexit. Regardless of the losses

Already in the 2016 US election campaign and before the British referendum on Brexit, Trump clearly stands on the side of Brexit supporters. Which can be considered an interference in the affairs of friendly states. He has the good Brexit populist Nigel Farage courted. Belonging to make him the US ambbadador to London. An affront to the ruling Tories and the opposition Labor Party.

And now he explains to May in Sun interview that if she continues her soft line with the EU, then the United States would only continue with the EU Talk about trade. But not with Britain. May hopes to enter into a bilateral trade agreement with the United States to mitigate the drawbacks of Brexit. But such an agreement is now "probably dead," Trump commented dryly. She just did not listen to it.

This will dump "nitroglycerin into the emerging revolt" of the hard-pressed Brexit supporters among the conservatives, commented the Sun, not quite wrong. And as if Trump's nitroglycerin was not explosive enough, he threw another atomic bomb afterwards. Boris Johnson would make a "remarkable PM", he said. And: "I respect Boris a lot, obviously he loves me and he said very good things about me."

In May, Trump just says that she's "a good person."

This Friday morning, Trump will be and can meet for a working meeting at the Prime Minister's Manor. There will be many things to tell.

The interview can be considered a temporary low point in Anglo-American relations. These were still unshakeable before Trump. From the Second World War to the war in Iraq, British and American soldiers fought side by side. In fact soldered together. More than half a million people applauded John F. Kennedy during the US President's visit to London in 1961. Jimmy Carter was greeted with joy by tens of thousands of Britons in 1977.

Donald Trump will not be able to compete with his predecessors. More than 50,000 people want to leave alone because of him this Friday. Some even expect 200,000th only: Trump's friends are barely below. It will be one of the biggest anti-Trump protests that Europe has known so far. It is said that a trump ball of several meters high floats at Westminster Palace, the seat of parliament. Which would have said a lot to the question of what the British consider the majority of Trump. More than two-thirds of Britons reject Trump and his policies.

British Prime Minister Theresa May had first made an honest effort to establish something of a normal working relationship with Trump. Trump's mother has Scottish roots. He himself maintains two golf courses there. There must be something happening. Moreover, May is the engine of the emergency. In the midst of the Brexit negotiations, the United States is extremely important to the United Kingdom as a trading partner.

After Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2017, May hastened to be the first chief of government in Washington that same month. Both of them gave each other the importance and the depth of the relations between the two countries.

May be detrimental to Trump's visit

But there was also the scene where Trump suddenly stood on the way to the press conference. It seemed that both had a good relationship well beyond a working relationship. It did not work very well in the UK. Maybe she really wanted to avoid giving the impression that she could be too close to Trump.

Nevertheless, Trump was invited by the Queen during a state visit to London, with all the pomp and fame. As a result, nearly two million Britons have signed a petition demanding that Trump not be invited to a state visit. Queen Elizabeth II was spared the embarrbadment of being the host of Trump

. What she could not guess at the time: the image of the state leaders who are holding hands already symbolizes the temporary climax of the relations of the two states in the presidency of Trump. Then he goes down regularly

And not only because Trump is against everything the British think is right. He leaves the Paris climate agreement, announcing the nuclear deal with Iran, which is being negotiated with Britain, and launches a global trade war. He is fighting with NATO, with the European Union, with the United Nations. None of this is in the British interest

It starts with Trump's ban on the people of some Muslim countries, that he signs the day Washington's visit in May. The decree also causes indignation in the United Kingdom. A good week after May's return, London House Speaker John Bercow told parliamentarians that he would not invite Trump to speak in parliament. Not even when it comes to the promised state visit in May. Trump's values ​​did not correspond to the values ​​of the British Parliament.