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“Many people” would like to see Nigel Farage as UN ambassador in Washington, twits Trump

Tuesday, November 22nd 2016 - 10:11 UTC
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The President-elect said: “Many people would like to see @Nigel_Farage represent Great Britain as their Ambassador to the United States. He would do a great job!” The President-elect said: “Many people would like to see @Nigel_Farage represent Great Britain as their Ambassador to the United States. He would do a great job!”
PM Theresa May and her Downing Street operation went into overdrive in order to play down Farage’s role in the US/UK relationship, labeling its as an “irrelevance”. PM Theresa May and her Downing Street operation went into overdrive in order to play down Farage’s role in the US/UK relationship, labeling its as an “irrelevance”.
During the visit Farage urged Trump to return the bust of Sir Winston Churchill to the Oval Office, which was removed by President Obama in a snub to the UK During the visit Farage urged Trump to return the bust of Sir Winston Churchill to the Oval Office, which was removed by President Obama in a snub to the UK

President-elect Donald J. Trump has ostensibly thrown his support behind the idea of UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage becoming the British Ambassador to the United States in a tweet issued late on Monday night. Trump issued the statement, unprompted, via his Twitter feed, stating that the idea was popular amongst “many people” in a move that is sure to set the British political establishment into a further tailspin.

 Writing at 9:22pm on Monday night, the President-elect said: “Many people would like to see @Nigel_Farage represent Great Britain as their Ambassador to the United States. He would do a great job!”

The tweet comes as the British political establishment struggles to deal with the fact that Mr. Farage was the first foreign politician to visit the President-elect after his victory over Secretary Hillary Clinton on November 8th.

The Prime Minister, Theresa May, and her Downing Street operation went into overdrive in order to play down Mr. Farage’s role in the U.S.-UK relationship, going so far as to label Mr. Farage an “irrelevance”.

The latest endorsement from President-elect Donald Trump will no doubt set the UK establishment into a further tailspin on the issue.

Over the weekend it became apparent that Mrs. May was ready to roll out the big guns, going so far as to extend an invitation for the President-elect to attend an official state visit at the home of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle.

But the move seems to have stiffened the President-elect’s resolve in his support for Mr. Farage. The pair met last weekend at his residence in Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan last weekend.

During the visit Farage urged the President-elect to return the bust of Sir Winston Churchill to the Oval Office, which was removed by President Obama in a snub to the United Kingdom. Farage has been keen to stress since the meeting that he would be amenable to any role in assisting the relationship between the two nations.

President-elect Trump was a keen supporter of the Brexit movement led by Farage, even going so far as to label his own victory “Brexit plus plus plus” and even introducing Farage at a rally in Jackson, Mississippi.

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  • ElaineB

    Other news sources for the same story:

    CNN
    Washington Post
    CNBC
    Bloomberg
    Financial Times
    Fox News

    to name but a few.

    She was investigated for a year and the FBI concluded that she had done nothing to warrant criminal charges. Trump would have wasted time and money continue the fools errand, and given that he has some serious legal problems waiting in the wings, he made the right choice to drop the nonsense.

    Interestingly Trump stated that he thought his supporters that he got to chant “lock her up” would be perfectly fine with his decisions to drop it. I wonder at what point the penny will drop and they realise he was using them.

    Nov 22nd, 2016 - 08:01 pm +6
  • Heisenbergcontext

    I dunno Think, how does one adjust to living in The Twilight Zone...for real?

    Nov 25th, 2016 - 12:24 pm +6
  • Clyde15

    With Trump and Farage...,what you see is what you get !

    Nov 22nd, 2016 - 11:33 am +5
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