Trump’s shown you who he is – believe him.
Here in Europe, there are still politicians clinging to the hope that Trump is not the vicious fantasist he gives every appearance of being. The US president is a “transactional” politician who believes in making deals, they say.
We should ignore the half-mad ravings that fill Trump’s public pronouncements. They are just a show. He’s still a guy we can work with.
Keir Starmer is clinging on to this hope like a drowning sailor hugging his ship’s wreckage.
Pat McFadden, one of Starmer’s most trusted advisers, spoke as if America was still a reliable ally and force for good in the world. The Trump administration’s bellowing could be safely ignored.
“It is in the national interest that we keep a good dialogue in public and private channels,” he said, “and that we don’t overreact to every announcement.”
He talked a good game. But in private senior government sources mournfully confessed to the Times that the UK had no idea what promises Trump had made Putin.
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Trump’s shown you who he is – believe him.
Here in Europe, there are still politicians clinging to the hope that Trump is not the vicious fantasist he gives every appearance of being. The US president is a “transactional” politician who believes in making deals, they say.
We should ignore the half-mad ravings that fill Trump’s public pronouncements. They are just a show. He’s still a guy we can work with.
Keir Starmer is clinging on to this hope like a drowning sailor hugging his ship’s wreckage.
Pat McFadden, one of Starmer’s most trusted advisers, spoke as if America was still a reliable ally and force for good in the world. The Trump administration’s bellowing could be safely ignored.
“It is in the national interest that we keep a good dialogue in public and private channels,” he said, “and that we don’t overreact to every announcement.”
He talked a good game. But in private senior government sources mournfully confessed to the Times that the UK had no idea what promises Trump had made Putin.
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