What`s all this "Britain Trump" nonsense?
By John Welford
@indexer (4852)
Leicester, England
July 24, 2019 5:31am CST
Donald Trump has declared his delight that Boris Johnson will be the UK's new Prime Minister. He has also said that the expression being used in the UK now is "Britain Trump".
What on earth is he on about? Those words, stuck together don't mean anything at all. If he had said "Britain's Trump" or "The British Trump", that might have made a bit of sense, but "Britain Trump"?
And then, what does Donald Trump assume that this means? He seems to believe that people over here are putting Boris Johnson and Donald Trump into the same bracket as some sort of tribute to Donald Trump! "They like me over there", he said.
One thing this episode shows is that Donald Trump only ever thinks of himself. He cannot bring himself to pay a compliment to somebody else without thinking about how that affects Donald Trump.
But much worse than that is his complete failure to recognize an insult when he sees one. People in the UK are not saying that Johnson is like Trump as any sort of compliment to Boris - far from it. On the contrary, most people here can see absolutely clearly what a disaster Donald Trump is as the US President, and fear that Boris Johnson will be a carbon copy, and therefore just as terrible!
Donald Trump has shown himself, time after time, to be out of touch with reality. This is just another example.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
24 Jul 19
I believe that Trump did actually use the words "Britain's Trump" but you're right that he hasn't a clue why many people in Britain have compared Doris to Frump.
Looks like BJ has started off well in the Big Yellow Clown's vein by promising to "insert broadband into 'every orifice, of every home'." Thanks, idiot! I do NOT want my water, gas, electricity or sewage broadbanded!
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@zainkhan121 (837)
• Pakistan
26 Jul 19
This is what happens when you let a rich-kid-zero-at-school become the President – with the help of those Russian-hackers’ support. He thinks he is just some random guy with a twitter account. He doesn’t even think about the caliber of his position, he posts like a drunk Kardashian. For people like me who are basically coming from a controlled democracy, U.S. President was more like an example for us, a standard for what a President should speak like, act like, how he should be able to run the country, and Trump has destroyed all that image, and now when we have to use an example of a bad government, we give trump’s name as an example.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
26 Jul 19
It was about 50 years ago that a prominent American said "In the United States, anyone can become President - that is one of the risks you take". He did not live to see his fear come to such a startling realization!
@Fleura (29288)
• United Kingdom
24 Jul 19
Are we getting into a worse and worse mess?? Honestly, if, a few years ago, we had been asked to name the two people who would be regarded as the biggest disasters as world leaders, I am pretty sure I could guess who those would be. Amd now look where we are!
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@JudyEv (327084)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Jul 19
I wonder what history will make of these two in years to come.
@DocAndersen (54407)
• United States
24 Jul 19
well first off, my apologies for both the sections made about the UK.
Boris is not trump.
and the impression I got from all the protests when trump was there they the UK doesn't like him much.
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@Svidrigaylov (386)
• Guadeloupe
24 Jul 19
@indexer Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. I have just discovered your very great misfortune. I hope we'll survive the choice of that few number of people who got to choose your new PM. I thought you were doing fairly well with the other one.
@Aquitaine24 (11653)
• San Jose, California
17 Aug 19
So is it an asset for Johnson to be compared with Trump?
@MALUSE (69390)
• Germany
24 Jul 19
Both men may be clowns but Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is an educated one at least. I've just checked his pedigree on Wikipedia and learnt that he has Turkish and German ancestors. Through the German branch he is distantly related to Queen Elizabeth II.
He went to school in Brussels and Eton and studied in Oxford. Doesn't sound too bad.
Continental Europeans can't understand the problems many Brits have with Europe and the EU. Let's hope that the supporters of Brexit won't experience that this decision is a shot in the foot. It will hardly affect the other EU countries and I don't think that many continental Europeans will cry when the Brits leave.
I once attended a seminar at uni which dealt with Great Britains's disturbed relationship with Europe. A long and complicated story going back centuries!
