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A former British ambassador to the United States said Saturday that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is “fascinated” by the current US president, as well as intrigued by Donald Trump’s “intermittent relationship” with events. it’s true”.
In an interview with the British newspaper “The Times”, former Ambassador Kim Darroch, who resigned on July 10, 2019 after the publication of diplomatic documents in which he described Trump and his administration as “inept” and “exceptionally dysfunctional “He partly blamed Boris Johnson for his departure, since the politician, who was then competing for the leadership of the British Conservatives, did not support him in the face of the US president’s attacks.
While the outgoing government of Theresa May supported him, reported former ambassador Boris Johnson, who was the frontrunner to replace the then-conservative British prime minister, avoided doing so, especially during a televised debate broadcast on July 9.
Before the rebroadcasting of the debate, Trump had said that he would stop negotiating with the English diplomat, whom he called “stupid.”
The interview with “The Times” comes on the occasion of the launch of the book “Collateral Damage: Britain, the United States and Europe in the Trump Era”, which Kim Darroch will launch on September 17.
In the book, Kim Darroch gives an account of his trip to the UK embassy in Washington, which Johnson visited when he was still Foreign Minister in the government headed by Theresa May.
The former ambassador assures that the current British prime minister, who took office on July 24, 2019, is attracted mainly by the “limited vocabulary” of the American leader, as well as “by the simplicity of the message, by the contempt for what politically correct”. , for the sometimes inflammatory images “and for Trump’s management of” the truth. “
For his part, Trump sees Boris Johnson as a kind of “soul mate”, continued the former British ambassador, who argued, still in an interview with The Times, that Johnson is using the same style as the US president to present his ideas and messages to the British people.
