Kudos to someone in London

 

UPDATE 09/17/2025:

The images on the castle, where King Charles is scheduled to host Trump during his state visit to the UK, were labelled a “public stunt” by police. The projection was reportedly done by campaign group Led by Donkeys.

Arrests were made on suspicions of malicious communications following the “unauthorised projection”. Images of Prince Andrew , who has also been linked to Epstein, were displayed too.

[...]

Trump’s UK visit has already been met with a range of protests across the country.

  The National

President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, were greeted by the British royal family on Wednesday at Windsor Castle outside London, beginning a two-day state visit swaddled in the kind of pomp and grandeur that so thrills this president.

The state visit is part of an effort by the British government to engage with a president who has returned to office less interested than ever in maintaining the post-World War II order, and possibly divert him on key issues affecting the two nations. The fact that Mr. Trump has been invited to Britain for a second state visit — after his first in 2019 — is itself a rare diplomatic gesture that no other American president has enjoyed.

[...]

The Trumps traveled by helicopter from London to Windsor, where they were received by King Charles III. Mr. Trump and the King rode in a horse-drawn carriage through the Windsor estate as Queen Camilla and Mrs. Trump followed in a separate carriage. The state dinner at the 900-year-old castle will take place on Wednesday night. A number of Trump officials, friends and allies have traveled to England to attend.

  NYT

To be fair, the first time Trump was invited was under Queen Elizabeth, but shame on King Charles. I understand playing to Trump's vanity to get what you want out of him, but a royal visit is too much. Besides, he only acts according to petty grievances and whoever talked to him last. Somebody will come in behind you, so the thing to do is phone him on a regular basis.

“My relationship is very good with the U.K., and Charles, as you know, who’s now king, is my friend,” Mr. Trump said from the south lawn of the White House on Tuesday morning before departing for Britain. “And it’s the first time this has ever happened where somebody was honored twice, so it’s a great honor.”

[...]

“They say Windsor Castle is the ultimate, right?” he asked. (Buckingham Palace, where his first state visit took place, is undergoing renovations.)

[...]

After the royal extravaganza on Wednesday, the president is scheduled to travel to Chequers, the prime minister’s country estate, on Thursday to meet with Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The two leaders are expected to sign a handful of deals, and to hold a joint news conference.

[...]

Last week, Mr. Starmer fired his ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson, over his ties to Mr. Epstein. Both Mr. Trump and Mr. Starmer were expected to face questions about the ongoing Epstein saga.

Typical Trump with his nose in the air. The picture makes it look like Camilla has only one leg.

Hopefully, some British reporters will not be afraid to take on the Orange Ass.

Reportedly, the deal the Brits are most interested in making is help building nuclear plants.

UPDATE 09/18/2025:

Even though ABC bends the knee.  When will they learn?

How we should have treated him

 

America is the world's pariah now.  

UPDATE 03/03/2025:

A ray of hope?

And the Tories didn't riot. 

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE 07/07/2024:

Just a few days ago, I read a headline saying Macron's play may have backfired and favored the far right.  Jesus, you can't tell anything until it happens, and then you hold your breath.

There she goes

Is Truss going to be the British Scaramucci?

That was quick.  

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:10/18

The Brits have a new Prime Minister

Pretty sure that's why Parliament chose Liz. So when the eventual calamity happens, a man won't get the blame.

Well, there it is. The UK’s third prime minister in just over three years is Liz Truss.

[...]

Boris Johnson, a terminally immoral liar who turned out to be a terminally immoral liar, is no longer in office today.

[...]

[He] left Downing Street this morning after an arrogant, lie-heavy speech, in which he displayed his character development after three years in office – precisely zero. [...] He remains a short king over the water for any number of Conservatives who somehow still yearn to be shackled to a wildly underachieving narcissist who openly despises them.

  Guardian

She's talking about MAGA, in case you missed the "over the water" descriptor.

Elsewhere, This Morning has pivoted its Spin to Win competition in the direction of “full dystopia”, with desperate viewers now offered the chance to have the peppy morning magazine show pay their apocalyptic energy bills.

[...]

Nigel Farage has just launched a personal red-white-and-blue gin range – a reminder that 40% proof spirits are the perfect accompaniment to the ongoing fallout of his political philosophy. He says his gin is “a taste of Brexit”; certainly, the blue liquid is the precise shade of the contents of a chemical toilet.

[...]

Nevertheless, former Tory leaders have been weighing in with good wishes for Truss. There may well be a day when my reaction to any vanilla interjection from David Cameron is not to shout to an empty room: “You did this! You’re the reason we all live in the upside-down! YOU OPENED THE GATE!”

[...]

Truss flew to Balmoral to meet the Queen, who she once wanted to abolish but now finds it more personally convenient to revere.

So maybe she deserves to be blamed for a calamity.

It’s always good when people explain what the Queen’s outfits mean; I assume that today’s choice telegraphed amused relief that she could be the only person spared having to hear Truss butcher a reading from Ecclesiastes at her funeral.

[...]

It’s always good when people explain what the Queen’s outfits mean; I assume that today’s choice telegraphed amused relief that she could be the only person spared having to hear Truss butcher a reading from Ecclesiastes at her funeral.

[...]

Incidentally, if any of this feels somewhat downbeat, do consider that polls indicate a full 50% of the UK are disappointed that Truss is the new PM, against 22% who say they are very or fairly pleased.

[...]

The current bookies’ favourite to replace Liz Truss as Tory leader is … Boris Johnson.

Jesus. Apparently the same virus that attacked the GOP has attacked the Tories. Maybe the World Health Organization should be working on that.

....but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Wow

I figured he'd have to be carried out on a pike.

Lies and a brazen contempt for the rules powered his rise; lies and a brazen contempt for the rules brought his fall.

[...]

The last, fatal lie was his claim that he had not been told directly of complaints of sexual misconduct committed by the former deputy chief whip Chris Pincher, a claim rapidly exposed as false in a rare intervention from a former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, Simon McDonald. It turned out that Johnson had indeed been briefed about Pincher, and that once again Johnson had not told the truth.

[...]

But though that newest dishonesty was the last straw first for Sajid Javid, then minutes later for Rishi Sunak, and, over the dizzying 36 hours that followed, dozens of others, triggering a wave of resignations and withdrawals of backbench support that ultimately brought Johnson’s removal, it was hardly what broke the Johnson premiership.

Instead it was the pattern of repeated mendacity that proved too much to bear both for Johnson’s previous chancellor and his hastily installed successor, his health secretary and a slew of more junior colleagues, a pattern so firmly established in the public mind that even his closest lieutenants could deny it no longer.

[...]

None of this was a surprise, because dishonesty has been the one constant through Johnson’s career. Famously, he was sacked from his first job, at the Times, for making up a quote, and later he was sacked from Michael Howard’s frontbench for lying to the then party leader about an affair.

[...]

Yet for Johnson it proved no obstacle at all. On the contrary, his route to No 10 was smoothed with lies. How come? What were the forces that propelled a man whose flaws were so clear and well documented into the most powerful job in the land?

  Guardian

I think we in the U.S. can understand.

Bored with a leader who was dutiful, diligent and deathly dull – whose wickedest youthful transgression had been running unauthorised through a field of wheat – Conservatives were ready for someone with some swash to his buckle.

That was bound to be Johnson. For more than two decades, ever since he had stolen the show on Have I Got News for You, Johnson had been the Tories’ guilty pleasure. They would mob him at party conference, giggling at his every scripted gag, delighting in every studied ruffling of the hair.

[...]

For this form of populism Boris Johnson was a perfect fit. His personal brand had long been a breezy disdain for the worker bees and “girly swots” who felt duty-bound to go through their papers, to read their briefs and master the details. He had long been a familiar English archetype, the gentleman amateur offering fluency, confidence and swagger in place of effort, experience and attention to detail, and Brexit-era populism lent what had been mere character flaws – arrogance and laziness – a patina of ideological intent.

[...]

In the age of Trump and Brexit, to be a congenital bullshit artist – as Johnson always had been – was to define yourself as a man of “the people” and their “instincts”, unrestrained by pettifogging niceties, heedless of the boring naysayers and their tedious facts, ready instead to take a stand against the know-all elites, establishment and experts.

[...]

According to the election analyst Peter Kellner, “Johnson’s victory in 2019 owed less to his popularity than Jeremy Corbyn’s unpopularity.”

[...]

It might even have worked, for a while at any rate. But then came coronavirus. Populists have no answer to a pandemic, for it requires the very things Johnson and his ilk lack and despise: hard work, a forensic grasp of detail, the wisdom of experts, human empathy, a spirit of self-sacrifice and, above all, rules. Of course, he would not follow them. He never had. It had once been part of his appeal.

[...]

He turned the Tory party away from the values it once held dear, so that Johnson’s party cheerfully jeopardised the union, tramped on parliamentary sovereignty and even insulted the monarchy. He purged it of some of its best people and debased several of the great offices of state by filling them with obvious incompetents. Above all, he drained what remained of the public reservoir of trust.

Whoever was writing the story of Johnson's trajectory, plaigerized it for Trump's. Or vice-versa.

Sir John Major, the former Conservative prime minister, has intervened in the debate about how long Boris Johnson should be allowed to remain in Downing Street. In a letter to Sir Graham Brady, the chair of the 1922 Committee, Major says it would be “unwise” to let Johnson hang on until the autumn.

[...]

Major says he can see two possible solutions. One would be for Dominic Raab, the deputy prime minister, to take over as acting prime minister until a new party leader is elected. The other would be for the rules to be changed so that only MPs elect the party leader (the system that used to be in place until William Hague changed the rules). Major says MPs could choose a leader who could then be endorsed by party members.

Major accepts that neither solution is ideal. But he says with so many critical issues facing the country “an imaginative response - even at the risk of some bruised feelings within the party - is most definitely in the public interest”.

  Guardian

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Meanwhile in England

More ministers have resigned today from government than have ever done before in a single day, higher than the previous record of 11 ministers quitting in September 1932.

Fourteen have left Boris Johnson's government today, and since 6pm yesterday evening when then Chancellor Rishi Sunak and health secretary Sajid Javid resigned, seventeen ministers have left in total.

More junior, non-ministerial Conservative MPs have also quit, meaning several dozen members of the government have now gone.

[...]

As well as the resignations from within Mr Johnson's cabinet, several international trade envoys and parliamentary private secretaries have left their posts, while other backbench Conservative colleagues have publicly stated their lack of confidence in the prime minister.

[...]

Only Theresa May's time in charge of a Brexit-split Conservative Party saw more ministers quitting in shorter time over the first three years of governing.

[...]

Mr Johnson won a vote of no confidence from his parliamentary party in early June, but it resulted in 41.2% of his Conservative MPs voting against him. A number of MPs who said they voted for the PM at the time have since announced they would vote differently if the ballot were held again.

  Sky News

Really? A month made a change?

At Prime Minister's Questions this afternoon Boris Johnson vowed to "keep going", despite the growing calls from his colleagues for him to step down.

Definitely Britain's Trump.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Welcome Barbados to the league of sovereign nations

With a female president, no less.

Barbados has elected its first president with just weeks to go until the Caribbean island becomes a republic and ceases to recognise Queen Elizabeth as its head of state.

The island’s governor-general, Dame Sandra Mason, was elected almost unanimously by the former British colony’s parliament on Wednesday, with only one member declining to vote.

Mason, a 72-year-old judge and former ambassador, will be sworn in on 30 November, the 55th anniversary of her country’s independence from Britain in 1966.

[...]

Barbados announced its decision to part company with the monarchy in September 2020 amid an intensifying global debate on the malign legacy of colonialism and racial injustice.

Speaking at the time, Mason argued that the time had come for Barbados “to fully leave our colonial past behind”.

[...]

Barbados is not the first Caribbean country to forsake the Queen. Guyana did so in 1970, four years after gaining independence from Britain, and was followed by Trinidad and Tobago in 1976 and, two years later, Dominica. Barbados may also not be the last. Its decision to become a republic has amplified a long-running debate in Jamaica over whether it should also turn away from the monarchy.

  Guardian

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

More about Brexit

From an Intercept email:

On Thursday, Britain elected the most right-wing government in decades. The Conservative Party won 365 out of 650 seats, giving Boris Johnson the strongest Tory majority since 1987 and, in his words, “a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done.” While the American public digests what to make of the Labour Party’s crushing loss (what might it mean for 2020), U.S. business interests are surely celebrating. Johnson has promised a withdrawal by January 31, 2020 — and U.S. industry groups, from pork to pharma, are eyeing the negotiations as a Trojan horse for corporations to seize more power and gut consumer protections.

British voters think Brexit will simply restore national sovereignty, limit migration, and restore local control, writes Lee Fang. In fact, corporate lobbyists now see a “historic opportunity” to use Johnson’s proposed swift exit from the European Union to forge bilateral trade deals. One of the greatest risks of Tory leadership is to the U.K.’s National Health Service. The NHS is already outsourcing an unprecedented level of patient care to private health care firms, many of which are owned by U.S. corporations. As Brexit moves forward, health care executives hope to “capture” more and more of the British market.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Tweedledum and Tweedledee

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday it would be “best” if U.S. President Donald Trump does not get involved in Britain’s election when he visits London for a NATO summit next week.

  Reuters

What's number two on Johnson's list of requests? Because that one isn't going to happen.

On Friday, a senior Trump administration official told reporters that Trump is “absolutely cognizant of not, again, wading into other country’s elections.”

Sure, but cognition isn't the same as adherence.

The U.S. president, who is due to arrive on Monday, has cast Johnson as “Britain’s Trump.”

Goes without saying.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Britain's Trump is a flop, too

“Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, brothers in chaos,” read a headline in the Los Angeles Times over the weekend.

Chaos, indeed. The two right-wing soul mates seem to be competing with one another to see who can do more damage to the political, economic, and social fabric of their respective countries.

[...]

“On Tuesday, Parliament voted, 328 to 301, to seize control so it could debate a bill that would attempt to prevent the United Kingdom from leaving the European Union without a plan in place on October 31,” Vox explained. “The vote was greeted with cheers, and cries of ‘not a good start, Boris!’”

In the space of a few hours, the new British prime minister lost his first-ever vote in the House of Commons and his parliamentary majority too.

[...]

The similarities between the two leaders really are striking — and I’m not just referring to their ridiculous blond hairstyles.

[...]

Like Trump, Johnson likes to make grandiose and populist pledges — but then fails to deliver on them. His demagoguery is perhaps matched only by his incompetence.

[...]

Both men came to power after demonizing immigrants. [...] Johnson was one of the leaders of the pro-Brexit, anti-immigration “Vote Leave” campaign and repeatedly suggested that the U.K. would be flooded with millions of Turkish migrants if it remained a member of the European Union.

Both men are also card-carrying Islamophobes.

[...]

Both of them fail to command popular support.

[...]

Both have cynically disregarded democratic norms.

[...]

Both are notorious liars. Trump, according to the Washington Post fact-checkers, has told more than 10,000 untruths since coming to office less than three years ago; Johnson was fired from his job at the Times of London for falsifying quotes, while his former editor at the Daily Telegraph has referred to his “contempt for the truth.”

Both have a long and sordid history of infidelity.

Both are elitists masquerading as populists. Trump received $413 million from his father’s real estate empire and lived in a gold, three-story penthouse in Manhattan; Boris is a graduate of the upper-crust schools Eton and Oxford and, of course, a former member of the infamous Bullingdon Club.

On Tuesday, though, one key difference emerged between the men: Johnson still faces resistance on the right. Conservative Member of Parliament Phillip Lee, for example, deprived the prime minister of his razor-thin majority when he walked across the floor of the House of Commons and defected to the Liberal Democrats, the third party of British politics, while Johnson was mid-speech. Then, 21 Conservative MPs, including two former finance ministers and the grandson of Winston Churchill, voted with the opposition to wrest back control of the parliamentary agenda and try and delay Brexit, for which they were promptly expelled from the party.

[...]

Compare and contrast such behavior with that of the congressional Republican Party, which has been shamefully complicit in all of Trump’s open bigotry, dishonesty, corruption, and authoritarianism.

[...]

These are the spineless sycophants who have allowed a former reality TV star to hijack their Grand Old Party.

[...]

In the coming days and weeks, as the Brexit saga continues and a possible general election is held, Johnson could find himself out of a job (which would make him, incidentally, the shortest-serving prime minister in U.K. history). If he’s ousted, leading British Conservatives can justifiably take some credit for it.

As former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes tweeted Tuesday: “Conservative MPs in UK finally standing up to Boris sadly underscores how much conservatives in the US have been cowardly in the face of Trump.”

“Cowardly” might be an understatement.

  The Intercept

Very Trumpian.

Meanwhile in Britain

Members of the British parliament on Tuesday gave Prime Minister Boris Johnson a rowdy response at a parliamentary meeting in which Johnson's Conservative Party lost its majority in the governing body.

"Britain is on the verge...of taking back control of our trade policy and restoring our independent seat in the [World Trade Organization] for the first time in 46 years," Johnson said, which was met with shouts from members of parliament (MPs).

The criticism follows an attempt by Johnson to suspend parliament as he aims to limit its ability to block a no-deal Brexit.

During Tuesday's meeting, MP Phillip Lee, who was a Conservative, crossed the House to join the Liberal Democrats, which stripped the prime minister of his majority.

[...]

Queen Elizabeth II last week granted Johnson's request to suspend parliament and the royal court said in a statement that the body would "prorogued" between Sept. 9 and Oct. 14, which would give lawmakers just 17 days to negotiate a Brexit deal before the Oct. 31 deadline for the country's exit from the European Union.

Johnson, a leading advocate for leaving the EU, became prime minister through a conservative party election last month after Theresa May stepped down.

  The Hill

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Meanwhile in Britain - Part 2

Kind of goes with the new Johnson PM.

Britain got their Donald Trump

"It would be funny if it wasn't real."  That's what we said. 

They'll be fighting for publicity, and it's not certain they'll work well together.  Two supremely narcissistic assholes.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Snubbing our last European ally

The UK must be responsible for the safety of its own ships in the Gulf, the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has said.

His remarks reflect unresolved tensions between Britain and the US over Donald Trump’s plans for a US-led military convoy to protect international shipping operating off the Iranian coast.

  Guardian

I guess we're unofficially out of NATO now.

The UK foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, spoke to his German and French counterparts on Sunday to urge them to recognise the need to internationalise the maritime security operation in the Gulf. A multinational task force already exists, and it is not clear what the US believes its proposed Operation Sentinel will add.

[...]

About a fifth of the world’s oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz, the busiest shipping lane in the world for crude tankers, and it is less than 25 miles (40km) wide at its narrowest point. Tensions in the Gulf had already affected oil trading, and Friday’s tanker seizures caused prices to rise.

Britain has concerns that a US-led maritime security operation may have a different emphasis since Trump wants Europeans to join the US in pulling out of the nuclear deal signed in 2015.

Sounds like a fair guess.

In a statement to MPs on Monday, Hunt will vigorously defend the British decision to seize an Iranian tanker off Gibraltar on 4 July, insisting Britain – in co-operation with the US – had established that the ship entered British waters and was bound for Syria in breach of EU sanctions.

We'll help you get into trouble, but not out of it.

Lord Lamont, the former chancellor, and head of the British-Iranian chamber of commerce, said Britain must resist the temptation to get drawn closer to the US. “More armed escorts are not going to solve the situation,” he said. “The risk of a loss of life is very high and then you will get a proper shooting war.” The Iranians will have seen the capture of the Stena as offsetting the interdiction of the Iranian tanker, he added.

Pompeo also dismissed Iran’s announcement that it had captured 17 spies working for the US Central Intelligence Agency and sentenced some to death.

Iran made the announcement in state media, saying the alleged spies had been arrested in the 12 months to March 2019. Such announcements are not unusual in Iran, but the timing has raised concerns that Tehran is hardening its position in its standoff with western powers. “The Iranian regime has a long history of lying ... I would take with a significant grain of salt any Iranian assertion about actions that they’ve taken,” Pompeo said.

Donald Trump likewise tweeted that the Iranian claim was “totally false”.

Counterpoint: probably true.

What the hell is Operation Sentinel, anyway?

From the Central Command website:

TAMPA, Fla., July 19, 2019 — U.S. Central Command is developing a multinational maritime effort, Operation Sentinel, to increase surveillance of and security in key waterways in the Middle East to ensure freedom of navigation in light of recent events in the Arabian Gulf region.

The goal of Operation Sentinel is to promote maritime stability, ensure safe passage, and de-escalate tensions in international waters throughout the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait (BAM) and the Gulf of Oman.

This maritime security framework will enable nations to provide escort to their flagged vessels while taking advantage of the cooperation of participating nations for coordination and enhanced maritime domain awareness and surveillance.

While the United States has committed to supporting this initiative, contributions and leadership from regional and international partners will be required to succeed.

U.S. officials continue to coordinate with allies and partners in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East on the details and capabilities required for Operation Sentinel to enable freedom of navigation in the region and protect vital shipping lanes.

Vague enough for you?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

In the age of Trump

Theresa May did everything she could to accommodate Donald Trump. She was the first leader to visit him after he became president. She offered him a state visit to the United Kingdom at a much earlier stage in his tenure than his predecessors had received one. She uttered nary a word of criticism of his administration.

[...]

Trump actively undermined May on at least a dozen occasions—whether by interfering in investigations into terrorist attacks or by criticizing her Brexit strategy—but every single time, the prime minister turned the other cheek. She went out of her way to make the state visit a success. The president brought his extended family to London and seemed to treasure every moment. Trump could not have wished for a prime minister who was less demanding or more sycophantic.

[...]

Trump gave May nothing in return. Her government’s extraordinary generosity and tolerance of the intolerable could not even save the U.K. ambassador, Kim Darroch, from the president’s wrath. After the ambassador’s cables were leaked to the Daily Mail, Trump denounced him as a “pompous fool” who had not served the United Kingdom well. He declared that his administration would no longer deal with him. Darroch was immediately disinvited from a White House dinner with the emir of Qatar. He resigned this morning.

[...]

>Darroch’s crime was to state the obvious: that the Trump administration is inept and dysfunctional. Gérard Araud, who served as France’s ambassador to the United States for four years, told me that “anyone who has any experience of Washington would agree” with Darroch’s assessment. [...] “When Trump announced the withdrawal of U.S. forces, nobody in the administration—not Bolton, not the head of the CIA, not the chairman of the Joint Chiefs—knew he would take this decision. They did not know what it meant. Syria was just one of countless examples. Trump makes these decisions from the hip. No one knows what he will decide or what will happen the day after.”

[...]

“The U.S.” he said, “is playing in a different category. Ultimately, politicians do not care about ambassadors. They will not create an existential crisis over the fate of a diplomat. If necessary, they will make the sacrifice.” Darroch “is the victim of a political game in London.”

[...]

The president’s casual cruelty toward friends and the failure of Darroch’s many friends inside the Trump administration to say anything publicly on his behalf speak volumes about how much value the Trump administration places on alliances.

[...]

Trump respects only power and leverage.

  The Atlantic

But the diplomatic issue doesn't go both ways. American diplomats are allowed to say whatever they want - and in public.

Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, has been scathing in his criticism of Brussels, calling the European Commission “out of touch with reality” and “off in the clouds.” In a New Year’s Eve interview on BBC Radio 4, Woody Johnson, the U.S. ambassador to the U.K., said he had traveled throughout the United Kingdom and found the people desperate for new leadership. Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, began his term by calling for the United States to shame Germany on defense spending, and said he wanted to empower Trumpian conservatives in Europe. And this is what they have said on the record. One can only imagine their private briefings to the president.

So - for the rest of the world - why not discontinue diplomatically dealing with Trump?  He's just encouraged when you kowtow.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

He's not going to get over it

Again, sir, that's you.  You stupid, pompous fool.

He had to apologize to IVANKA!

Britain’s trade minister will reportedly apologize to President Trump’s daughter and senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump after leaked memos revealed a British ambassador describing the administration as “dysfunctional” and “inept.”

[...]

Reuters reports that British trade minister Liam Fox said he will apologize on behalf of the British government in person to Ivanka Trump during his current visit to Washington. “I will be apologizing for the fact that either our civil service or elements of our political class have not lived up to the expectations that either we have or the United States has about their behavior, which in this particular case has lapsed in a most extraordinary and unacceptable way,” Fox said on BBC radio.

[...]

It is unclear if the leaked cables mentioned Ivanka Trump specifically.

  The Hill

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Everybody's saying it

Somebody leaked private memos belonging to Kim Darroch, the British ambassador to the US, and they aren't flattering to Old Lardass.

“As seen from here, we really don’t believe that this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional, less unpredictable, less faction-riven, less diplomatically clumsy and inept” – Summer 2017

[...]

“For a man who has risen to the highest office on the planet, President Trump radiates insecurity … There is no filter [that prevents Trump making offensive comments] … We could also be at the beginning of a downward spiral, rather than just a rollercoaster; something could emerge that leads to disgrace and downfall” – Summer 2017

[...]

In an interview with the Financial Times last year, Darroch gave a slightly different assessment. “I have met [Trump] seven or eight times and always found him to be absolutely charming,” he said.

[...]

Darroch says inviting Trump to the UK for a state visit was a “gamble”. But he says from Washington’s perspective it was a great success, earning the UK embassy precious extra goodwill from Trump staffers for whom this was “the hottest ticket of their careers”.

[...]

“[Trump’s] claim, however, that he changed his mind [about an air strike on Iran] because of 150 predicted casualties doesn’t stand up; he would certainly have heard this figure in his initial briefing. It’s more likely that he was never fully on board and that he was worried about how this apparent reversal of his 2016 campaign promises would look come 2020 [at the next election]” – 22 June 2019

[...]

Darroch says the embassy was in the dark on the night of the aborted airstrike for a while because even its “best contacts” were unwilling to answer calls. He warns that a further Iranian attack, involving the loss of American life, could trigger a U-turn from Trump.

  Guardian

Theresa May has expressed “full faith” in her ambassador to the US, Kim Darroch, but rejected his description of Donald Trump as inept and insecure, as she launched an inquiry into the leak of his diplomatic memos.

[...]

No 10 is scrambling to find the leaker after two years of memos emerged in the Mail on Sunday, causing Trump to condemn Darroch as someone who “has not served the UK well”.

  Guardian

And the poor man will surely have to be replaced.

 ...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

He has to apologize to IVANKA!

Britain’s trade minister will reportedly apologize to President Trump’s daughter and senior White House adviser Ivanka Trump after leaked memos revealed a British ambassador describing the administration as “dysfunctional” and “inept.”

[...]

Reuters reports that British trade minister Liam Fox said he will apologize on behalf of the British government in person to Ivanka Trump during his current visit to Washington. “I will be apologizing for the fact that either our civil service or elements of our political class have not lived up to the expectations that either we have or the United States has about their behavior, which in this particular case has lapsed in a most extraordinary and unacceptable way,” Fox said on BBC radio.

[...]

It is unclear if the leaked cables mentioned Ivanka Trump specifically.

  The Hill