Trump Lands In U.K. & Immediately Disgraced America Like A Punk

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This week, President Donald Trump continued his tradition of upending norms in the service of some vague ambition to make America great again or something. On the occasion of his finally unfolding state visit to the United Kingdom, he offered some wide-ranging belligerent takes on British politics via sit-downs with British media outlets, insisting, for instance, that the widely controversial Nigel Farage should be put in charge of the country’s planned exit from the European Union.

Farage currently serves as a member of the E.U.-associated European Parliament, and he’s perhaps best known most recently for getting a milkshake thrown at him — and this is the guy who Trump thinks would be a great, credible leader of the United Kingdom in “Brexit” negotiations.

Some of Trump’s other “great ideas” for the U.K.’s planned “Brexit” include them simply walking away from negotiations if they can’t come up with a deal with the E.U. that gives them what they’re after. He even added that the country should sue the coalition, although he seemed to not really have an idea of how that would even work. As CNN describes it:

‘When asked how this would work, Trump said he would have put “on the table” the “mistakes made by the EU that cost the UK a lot of money and a lot of harm.”‘

What does that even mean? What court would host the suit? Who would it name? How much in damages would the U.K. be after — or what would they even be after? Trump has no specifics for his vague idea that the country should sue the European Union.

Besides this eye-catching spectacle of politicking, Trump also endorsed conservative leader Boris Johnson in the race to be the next Prime Minister of the U.K., which has gotten underway following current leader Theresa May’s announcement that she’d be leaving in the face of her repeated inability to produce a Brexit deal people would actually agree to.

There’s a precedent for U.S. presidents not meddling in the domestic affairs of other countries at this level, but Trump has long thrown that out the window. At this point, he’s repeatedly, explicitly endorsed his pal, Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu, who’s gone through a contentious election and now faces another on the horizon in the face of his inability to bring a governing parliamentary coalition together.

In the U.K. this week, Trump will be spending just a few days, and although he will be hosted at a banquet at the palace, other mainstays of state visits will be absent, like the visiting head of state actually staying at the palace. Later on in his trip, he’d been set to meet with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, but the Irish leader didn’t want to meet Trump at his private golf club, which the American delegation had been eyeing for the meeting. Rather than accommodating the foreign leader not wanting to seem like he’s endorsing Trump’s ragtag golf empire, they threatened to cancel the trip to the area altogether, until Varadkar agreed to meet them at the airport.

How presidential.

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