Trump Turns Britain Trip Into a Brexit Knife Fight
Trump arrived in the U.K. and immediately created a diplomatic mess by trashing Theresa May’s Brexit plan, praising Boris Johnson, and hinting that a U.S.-U.K. trade deal could be dead if London kept moving toward a softer break with Europe. By Friday, he was trying to say he had been misquoted even as the tape and the transcript told a different story. The result was a humiliating first impression for a state visit that was supposed to showcase the special relationship, not stress-test it in public.
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Trump Turns Britain Trip Into a Brexit Knife Fight
Trump arrived in the U.K. and immediately created a diplomatic mess by trashing Theresa May’s Brexit plan, praising Boris Johnson, and hinting that a U.S.-U.K. trade deal could be dead if London kept moving toward a softer break with Europe. By Friday, he was trying to say he had been misquoted even as the tape and the transcript told a different story. The result was a humiliating first impression for a state visit that was supposed to showcase the special relationship, not stress-test it in p…
Trump arrived in the U.K. and immediately created a diplomatic mess by trashing Theresa May’s Brexit plan, praising Boris Johnson, and hinting that a U.S.-U.K. trade deal could be dead if London kept moving toward a softer break with Europe. By Friday, he was trying to say he had been misquoted even as the tape and the transcript told a different story. The result was a humiliating first impression for a state visit…
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