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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
So much for Macron's 'special relationship' with The Donald. I think Britain remains unassailable in that department at present!
I'm really looking forward to Merkel's meeting with Trumpy. That should be a good scrap!
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Unlike the UK, Macron took Trump seriously and it's paid off. We should have listened to Mick.
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Britain looked on like the cheated partner as Mr Trump described his French counterpart as his “special friend” and described the two countries as each other’s “oldest allies”.
This wasn’t in the Brexiteer script.
Trump’s America and Brexit Britain were supposed to be inseparable partners in touch with popular anger about remote global elites and partners in the crusade against globalisation.
That’s what Theresa May intended when she rushed to meet Mr Trump in his first week in office with the promise of a full state visit; that’s what Boris Johnson was thinking as he headed off to Trump Tower to cosy up to fellow Right-wing populist Steve Bannon.
Now it’s the Marseillaise being played on the White House lawn, and it’s the self-appointed French leader of the liberal internationalist world order who has the ear of the President.
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https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/c...-a3823201.html