According to a previous no. 10-year-old Donald Trump exploded with anger at one of his oldest aides over missing a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The U.S. president’s outcry over the missing call came “right in front” of former Prime Minister Theresa May in Washington, her ex-chief of staff Nick Timothy has revealed.
Mr. Timothy spoke about a “fairly extraordinary” lunch in which Mr. Trump shouted at his then-National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
“One just mentioned in passing that Vladimir Putin had asked for a call with him, and right in front of us he absolutely called Mike Flynn down,” he said.
“Like really shouted. This was at a formal dinner with butlers and fancy crockery – and he called himself well off the table. ”
Mr Timothy said the president was furious: “If Putin wants a call with me, you just put him through.”
Talk about the What Do They Think? podcast, the former Downing Street figure added: “The whole thing was quite a strange experience.
“And not particularly reassuring about the state of [Trump’s] mind, as the stability of decision-making in the White House. ”
Mr Timothy – No Chief of Staff between 2016 and 2017 before resigning in the run-up to the 2017 general election – also discussed the controversy over Huawei and the Conservative government’s recent stance on both the US and China.
Mrs May’s senior aide said he was surprised his former boss Huawei could play a role in developing Britain’s 5G infrastructure, criticizing her 2019 decision to endorse the Chinese company as “very, very unwise” “.
He described Mrs May as a ‘Sino-skeptic’ during her time in charge of the Home Office and her first year as Prime Minister.
Mr Timothy also said former Chancellor George Osborne had erred in developing a strategy to make Britain “China’s best friend in the West”.
He said: “The problem with that is … you can not go all in with China without undermining your security relationship with America. China does not share Western values, and its strategy is, I am afraid, one of domination.”
