Trump calls Boris Johnson 'Britain Trump': 'They like me over there'

[left-of-center2012]

President Trump said Tuesday that people are calling the United Kingdom’s new prime minister Boris Johnson “Britain Trump," praising the new leader as a “good man.”

“We have a really good man who’s going to be the prime minister of the U.K. now, Boris Johnson. Good man, he’s tough, and he’s smart,” Trump said, addressing the conservative youth organization Turning Point USA.

“They’re saying ‘Britain Trump.’ They call him Britain Trump, and people are saying that’s a good thing.
They like me over there.
That’s what they wanted. That’s what they need.”

26 percent of British people approve of the job performance of Trump, according to a June Gallup poll.
According to YouGov, 21 percent of British people have a positive opinion of Trump.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/454336-trump-calls-boris-johnson-britain-trump-they-like-me-over-there

[Doodley]

1. Trump deserves to win an award for BS.

[thegoose]

2. God, that picture

He looks a bloated old little boy taking a school picture.

[HipChick]

3. Does he not know, he's only there as a place holder till Nov? Brits have a general election in Nov?

[sdfernando]

4. Of course he doesn't know.

He doesn't know how the U.S. Government works....There is know way he would know who a "foreign" country elects its leaders.

[smirkymonkey]

5. What is BJ's approval rating overall in the UK?

Do you know?

[Denzil_DC]

8. There is no UK general election currently scheduled for November 2019.

The most we know right now is that there'll have to be one by 5 May 2022 under the Fixed-term Parliaments Act.

Of course, if a vote of no confidence is carried in Parliament and no new government can be formed without an election or the Tories choose to bend the rules and call an election earlier, it could happen.

[Denzil_DC]

6. If anyone in the UK calls Johnson "Britain['s] Trump",

it's not meant to be a flattering comparison.

[UTUSN]

7. & English speakers everywhere winced & cringed!1