Why do so many people hate Trump for telling truths they don’t want to hear? Isn’t that what ALL politicians are supposed to do?
By PIERS MORGAN
DAILYMAIL.COM
13 July 2018
President Donald Trump is the kind of guy who comes to your house for dinner and then half way through the meal says he hates your food.
Oh, and as he leaves, adds for good measure that he’s not very keen on your curtains either.
He wouldn’t see that as being rude so much as being brutally honest.
Plain, blunt speaking has been the hallmark of his bombastic, in-your-face behaviour throughout his 50-year career as a billionaire real estate tycoon.
I’ve known President Trump a long time and he’s always called things exactly how he sees them in the moment, regardless of any offence they may cause.
This tendency has made him a massive success in business, and helped land him the presidency of the United States.
It’s also made him one of the most divisive and polarising public figures in the history of Planet Earth.
But one thing it’s no longer credible to feel is ‘shock’ when he does it.
He ALWAYS does it.
So spare me all the risible ‘I’ve never been so offended!’ nonsense spewing forth from the usual suspects today at Trump’s tub-thumping tirade against his host Theresa May and her Brexit policy, as he arrived in Britain.
President Trump calls a spade a spade.
We know that, and we can expect that every single day of this extraordinary presidency.
And this morning, he didn’t just call a spade a spade so much as take the spade and smash it all over Theresa May’s political career, reputation and backbone.
He believes the British Prime Minister’s severely watered down new Brexit plan, rubber-stamped with her cabinet at her country home Chequers a week ago, is not actually Brexit because the EU would still retain some control over trade deals.
‘If we do a deal like that,’ Trump told The Sun, ‘we would be dealing with the European Union instead of dealing with the UK so it would probably kill the deal because we have enough difficulty with the European Union. We are cracking down right now on the European Union because they have not treated the United States fairly on trading.’
Trump said May ignored his advice on how to negotiate Brexit.
‘I would have done it much differently. I actually told Theresa May how to do it but she didn’t agree, she didn’t listen to me. She wanted to go a different route.’
Now, it obviously wasn’t particularly tactful for him to say this literally as Marine One, the presidential helicopter, landed at Blenheim Palace for last night’s fancy dinner hosted by the target of his attack.
But that doesn’t mean Trump isn’t right both in his sentiment and his timing.
Full disclosure: I voted Remain. I don’t think Britain should be leaving the EU and wish the 2016 Referendum vote had agreed with me.
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