In London
In the summer of 2016, three months before the presidential election, Donald Trump tweeted that he would soon be called
"Mr Brexit"
.
He meant by that that he was going to defy the forecasts, create a surprise, as the victory of the yes in the referendum on the exit from the EU had done.
Beyond that, there was of course a political convergence.
Didn't Trump and Johnson show the same desire to
"clean up the backwater"
, to rid the aisles of power of the pundits, lobbyists and other bureaucrats who run politics in circles?
Obviously, a re-election of Donald Trump would be more comfortable for Boris Johnson.
The US president - who is known to have little affection for the EU - has regularly touted Brexit and said Johnson was doing a
"good job"
.
Without offering him the
"magnificent agreement"
of free trade that he had dangled and that the British Prime Minister dreamed of concluding last summer, in order to benefit from a means of pressure on the EU.
that
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