Trump team thought UK officials 'out of their minds' aiming for herd immunity, book says

[Carlitos Brigante]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-thought-uk-officials-minds-175056442.html

US officials thought their British counterparts “were out of their minds” in aiming for herd immunity as part of Boris Johnson’s initial policy on dealing with the coronavirus, according to a new book about the global response to the pandemic.

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Trump felt he had been betrayed by Xi. “These guys have fucked us and they fucked me personally,” he told his staff, according to the authors. He started insisting the disease be referred to as “the China virus”.

The book also describes the breakdown in attempts to build a concerted G7 response to the outbreak. France, which was handing over the rotating group presidency to the US, sought guidance from Washington on the administration’s intentions but it came as a shock to French officials “that the White House had no ideas of its own”.

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Merkel told Trump of her decision not to come Camp David on 28 May and he reacted furiously, yelling and then hanging up on her. The president then announced the summit would be canceled and called into question the G7’s relevance, using the occasion to repeat his earlier calls for Russia to be readmitted.

[rickyhall]

1. Did any other president, even Nixon, ever yell at a fellow leader like that?

Presidential candidates should have to pass an "Are You Nuts" test before signing on.

[roamer65]

2. Nixon hated PM Pierre Trudeau of Canada.

He would be cordial to him in person, but backstabbed the hell outta him in other settings.